Bruce Adolphe

Commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York, composer Bruce Adolphe and lyricist Louise Gikow have created a comical tribute to choral singers and conductors everywhere. The concept of the p...

This brand-new edition of Bruce Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers celebrates the 20th anniversary of the show as heard on Public Radio's Performance Today. Includes 30 tunes with songs by Gershwin, Kern, Arlen...

Couple was composed in 1998 for cello and piano for David Finckel and Wu Han. It was commissioned by James and Lois Lasry for SummerFest La Jolla and is recorded on the album For David and Wu Han on t...

Live performance includes rehearsal with audience. Movements may be performed separately.

Based on poems and melodies written by victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

SATB Chorus, Woodwind Quintet and 3 Percussion

Composed for the 90th Anniversary of the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. (2010) ca. 35'

Version of orchestral piece, 1987.

This variation on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star was written for the composer's daughter Katja when she was 8 years old. While not very difficult to play, it sounds wildly jazzy and excitingly virtuosi...

'Water Songs' is a group of six songs about water in various forms, from rain to the human brain. The poems range from the lyrical poetry of Katherine Barrett Swett, Emily Dickinson, and James Joyce t...

Written as a yearning for normal times during the COVID-19 pandemic, composer Bruce Adolphe worked with poet Pireeni Sundaralingam to set this poem to music. It was recorded by soprano Susanna Phillip...

Memory Believes (a requiem) is a seven-movement work for chamber choir and string quartet dedicated to the memory of the composer's brother, Jonathan Adolphe (1952-2022). Four Meditation movements, ea...

Memory Believes (a requiem) is a seven-movement work for chamber choir and string quartet dedicated to the memory of the composer's brother, Jonathan Adolphe (1952-2022). Four Meditation movements, ea...

Memory Believes (A Requiem) is a seven-movement work for chamber choir and string quartet dedicated to the memory of the composer's brother, Jonathan Adolphe (1952-2022). Four Meditation movements, ea...

Written in memory of Roger Tapping, violist of the Juilliard String Quartet and dear friend to the composer.

We were the Music is dedicated to Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a cellist who was arrested and deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz at the age of 18, where she became a member of the Women'...

Written for the Chapel Choir of University College, Oxford, Giles Underwood, Director of Music. This setting of Pireeni Sundaralingam's poem LOT'S WIVES (about the Sri Lankan Civil War that took place...

Written for the Chapel Choir of University College, Oxford, Giles Underwood, Director of Music. This setting of Pireeni Sundaralingam's poem LOT'S WIVES (about the Sri Lankan Civil War that took place...

This work was commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet. Movements: I. Unexpected Turbulence; II. On That Note; III. It Follows That; IV. Winding Up.

This work was commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet. Movements: I. Unexpected Turbulence; II. On That Note; III. It Follows That; IV. Winding Up.

Plunge into an ocean of music and meet the sarcastic fringehead fish, stoplight parrotfish, a love-struck seahorse, and more. Also available for chamber orchestra. For flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin...