"In his music — a vast and varied catalog that includes symphonies, operas, chamber music and song cycles — the most ingratiating and accessible strains keep company with gnarled dissonances."
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"Sextet" gains positive reviews in Oregon, Santa Fe press
Critics applaud Bolcom's timely new work for "unusual consort of clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano"
Read moreChicago Tribune: Lucrezia "draws a lively staging from Chicago Fringe Opera"
"Tangos, fandangos, waltzes, even snatches of ragtime and jazz pepper Bolcom's musical pastiche"
Read moreCharleston Gazette-Mail: A remarkable concert of firsts by the Delphi Piano Trio
Bolcom's "Piano Trio (2014, written for the Delphi) moved fluidly among modernist styles with massive dark textures in the opening of the piece to Gershwin-like bluesy harmony at the start of the slow movement."
Read moreTrombone Concerto receives warm reception in NYC
The New York Times and New York Classical Review praised the world premiere of William Bolcom’s Trombone Concerto, featuring the Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi.
Read moreCD Review: Canciones de Lorca, Prometheus
On www.voix-des-arts.com, critic Joseph Newsome names new Bolcom CD the Best New Music Recording of 2015.
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