A composer, author, educator and performer, BRUCE ADOLPHE is the Music and Education Advisor for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founding creative director of PollyRhythm Productions, and the comic keyboard quiz-master of NPR’s Piano Puzzlers. Formerly on the faculties of the Juilliard School and New York University and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, Adolphe has been the lecturer of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1992, and has been featured in nationally broadcast Live from Lincoln Center television programs. In addition to his lecture series, Inside Chamber Music, at Lincoln Center, Adolphe has been a featured lecturer since 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where his series is called A Composer’s View. Since January, 2002, Adolphe appears weekly on National Public Radio in his own comic Classical call-in quiz show, Piano Puzzlers, where he plays well-known tunes disguised as works by famous composers. For the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bruce Adolphe created the sold-out family concert series Meet the Music! Since 1993, Adolphe has appeared regularly as the host of these concerts, and also as characters ranging from “private ear’ Inspector Pulse to Schubert’s brother Ferdinand to Igor Stravinsky. Bruce’s many compositions for young listeners have often been premiered on this series before being performed throughout the United States and around the world. With Julian Fifer, Bruce Adolphe co-founded PollyRhythm Productions, a company devoted to the creation of music, books, scripts, and games linking musical concepts to science, art, history, and daily life. The company is named after Adolphe's opera-and-jazz-singing parrot, Polly Rhythm. Adolphe’s compositions for young people include Marita and Her Heart’s Desire, recorded on Telarc with Itzhak Perlman and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, recorded with Dr. Ruth Westheimer; The Amazing Adventure of Alvin Allegretto, a comic opera written for the Metropolitan Opera Guild; Urban Scenes for Kids and String Quartet; The Purple Palace, commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Tyrannosaurus Sue – A Cretaceous Concerto, written for the unveiling of the dinosaur at Chicago’s Field Museum in May of 2000; Tough Turkey in the Big City, commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Carnival of the Creatures, the never anticipated, un-awaited for sequel to you know what; Red Dogs and Pink Skies: A Musical Celebration of Paul Gauguin, recorded on the PollyRhythm label; Witches, Wizards, Spells, and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare, commissioned by The Chicago Chamber Musicians for a collaboration with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater; and Oceanophony, with poems by Kate Light, commissioned by The La Jolla Music Society in conjunction with the 100th Anniversary of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. This last work was premiered in August 2003, at the Birch Aquarium of the Scripps Institute. Adolphe’s works for young people have been performed throughout the world by such orchestras and ensembles as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Orlando Symphony, and ensembles and orchestras in Europe and Australia. Adolphe has also composed music for Itzhak Perlman, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, St. Luke’s Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Brentano String Quartet, the Miami Quartet, David Finckel and Wu Han, and many others. His many compositions include four operas and several theater pieces. He has been composer-in-residence at festivals throughout the United States, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, Bravo! Colorado, the Grand Canyon Festival, the Moab Festival, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., the Perlman Music Program, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Virginia, the O.K. Mozart Festival and SummerFest La Jolla. Adolphe has written three books on music: The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination; What to Listen for in the World; and Of Mozart, Parrots and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind. Adolphe’s music has been recorded on the Telarc, CRI, Delos, Koch, Summit and PollyRhythm labels. His film scores include the permanent documentary at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.