William Bolcom
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William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist.
He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, as well as the Bolcom n.d. The Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award, and Musical America has named him Composer of the Year in 2007.
Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 2008.
He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
Early life and education
Bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington. He began studying composition privately with George Frederick McKay and John Verrall and piano with Madame Berthe Poncy Jacobson at age 11. "While working on his Master of Arts degree at Mills College and with Leland Smith at Stanford University, he received the 2ème Prix de Composition from Olivier Messiaen."
Career
Bolcom received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988 for 12 New Etudes for Piano. He was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1994. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2006. Gabriela Lena Frank, Carter Pann, Elena Ruehr, Derek Bermel, Joel Puckett, and David T. Little are among the notable students.
Bolcom has appeared and recorded regularly in partnership with Joan Morris, whom he married in 1975. They have released more than two dozen albums together, beginning with the Grammy-nominated After the Ball, a collection of popular songs from around the 20th century. Both concerts and recordings feature show tunes, parlor, and classic songs from Henry Russell's late 19th and early twentieth century, as well as cabaret songs.
Bolcom has recorded his own compositions, as well as recordings by George Gershwin, Darius Milhaud, and several of the classic ragtime composers. In the Michigan Writers Series, his compositions have been praised and showcased at Michigan State University.