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W I L L I A M B O L C O M N ational Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award winner William Bolcom is an American composer of chamber, operatic, vocal, choral, cabaret, ragtime, and symphonic music. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Michigan's School of Music from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. His setting of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience won four Grammy Awards in 2006. As a pianist Bolcom has performed and recorded his own work, frequently in collaboration with his wife and musical partner, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Their 25th album, Autumn Leaves, was released recently on White Pine Records. T his jam-packed festival celebrates the richness of string quartet composition and performance, featuring four of the world's most diverse and celebrated quartets performing works by classic and modern composers. What binds this audacious, ambitious program together? The work of Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer William Bolcom and the stellar playing of the Shanghai Quartet are featured at every performance. The Harlem Quartet opens the festival with an evening of classic and jazzier quartet fare, performing works by Mozart, Dizzy Gillespie, Rafael Hernández Marín, Abelardo Valdés, William Bolcom, and Osvaldo Golijov. The brilliant young Chiara String Quartet, known for playing without sheet music, performs works by Jefferson Friedman, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Bolcom. In a rare US appearance, the famed Arditti Quartet performs Bolcom's String Quartet no. 8, Elliott Carter's String Quartet no. 5, and with Eliot Fisk on guitar, the NY/NJ premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Guitar Quintet. The festival concludes with the Shanghai Quartet performing the world premiere of William Bolcom's String Quartet no. 12, commissioned by Peak Performances. Photo: Philip Brunnader C O M P O S E R S William Bolcom Elliott Carter Chaya Czernowin Antonín Dvořák Gabriela Lena Frank Jefferson Friedman John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie Osvaldo Golijov Rafael Hernández Marín Zhou Long Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Rihm Abelardo Valdés DATES March 31 @ 7:30 p.m. The Harlem Quartet with the Shanghai Quartet and John Patitucci, bass April 1 @ 5:00 p.m. Chiara String Quartet with the Shanghai Quartet April 1 @ 8:00 p.m. Arditti Quartet with the Shanghai Quartet and Eliot Fisk, guitar April 2 @ 3:00 p.m. The Shanghai Quartet Produced by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University Program Consultant: Peter Robles, Serious Music Media www.peakperfs.org 39