Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, whose works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. He is the author of several books, including The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners (Oxford, 3rd ed., 2021);the chapter on composing in Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal (Oxford, 2019); the chapter “Wordless Music that Speaks for Humanity” in The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (2022); and his latest book, Visions and Decisions: Imagination and Technique in Music Composition (Cambridge Elements series, 2023). Widely known for his weekly Piano Puzzler segment on American Public Media’s Performance Today, which has been broadcast since 2002, Mr. Adolphe is the resident lecturer and director of family concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

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