William Bolcom

On www.voix-des-arts.com, critic Joseph Newsome names new Bolcom CD the Best New Music Recording of 2015.

Marks Music is pleased to announce the availability of a new band transcription of the William Bolcom orchestral work, Inventing Flight. The splashy 3-movement work, commissioned for the 2003 Centennial of Flight celebrations by the Dayton and North Carolina Symphonies, and little performed since, is something of a revelation in this transcription for band by Dr. Jason Nam, who is a visiting professor and assistant director of bands at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.

Neues Volksblatt, 2/8/2016 
"...oscillating between dazzling expressionism and tender melody." 

Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 2/8/2016 
"Blunt musical idioms of jazzy ragtime changed into dazzling sounds of the spheres." 

Released in November 2015, new CD pairs works conducted by Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Prometheus features Jeffery Biegel at the piano; Canciones de Lorca features tenor René Barbera.

Guy Livingston talks with conductor Dennis Russell Davies, publisher Evan Hause, and Bill Bolcom himself about McTeague. Is this tragic opera Dadaist? Or a darker version of Broadway? Or a new genre?

Reviews for McTeague in Linz, first publications of Bolcom Early String Quartets 1 - 6, Circus Overture for Band

Now that Jell-O may be on the chopping block, let's take a look at its jiggly role in our lives.

By Kim Ode, Minneapolis Star Tribune - April 26, 2015

We received a charming letter from Miss Brace’s primary class at Marimont Montessori School in Pflugerville, Texas with her children’s illustrations of The Serpent’s Kiss. Bill was named their “Composer of the Month” for February! Thanks to Asher, Ari, Sophia, Ingrid, Arra, and Ema for their letters.

From newmusicusa.org

William Bolcom’s exciting Grant Park Music Festival residency in Chicago concluded with the world premiere of his new orchestral piece written for the festival, Millennium: Concerto-Fantasia. The piece premiered to a packed Pritzker Pavilion, with an estimated 12,000 filling the Seating Bowl and Great Lawn. 

In five years of existence the dynamic piano duo ZOFO (“20-finger orchestra”) has racked up two Grammy nominations and a competition win. Perhaps more impressively, they’ve given 11 world premieres of commissioned works. They brought the latest of these, by William Bolcom, to Morrison Artists Series at SFSU on Sunday afternoon, while dazzling the audience in a program of contemporary works. 

Bill was honored with the 2014 Music Publishers Association Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence, for his cover design for Evan Hause’s “Elephant Breath for Percussion Quartet,” published by E.B. Marks.