Carl Bolleia Professor • Department of Music Website With performances and recordings featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Gramophone, New York Classical Review, American Record Guide, Fanfare and more, Carl Patrick Bolleia has performed as pianist and historical keyboardist throughout North America, Europe and China, at venues including Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, Bargemusic, le poisson rouge, and Spectrum.As a collaborative artist, he has performed with musicians of the The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard415, and more. He has recorded for Composers Concordance Records distributed by Naxos and MSR Classics.Dedicated to contemporary music and historical performance, his large scale commissioning project of works for diverse keyboard instruments, entitled tintinnabulation.bloom, features inaugural compositions by the world’s leading composers, including Frederic Rzewski, Tyshawn Sorey and Stephen Hough.Active also in digital media and music industry, as a composer, pianist and arranger, he has composed and recorded multiple scores for Audible by Amazon and for the 125th Anniversary Campaign of Dr. Pepper.Dr. Bolleia received the Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School on a full scholarship and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, with his dissertation, “A Taxonomy of Musical Gesture and a Hermeneutic of Narrative and Diatonic Continuity in the Piano Music of Charles Wuorinen." At Rutgers, he was awarded the Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for Academic Distinction and Excellence in Piano and Organ Performance, the Arthur G. Humphrey Memorial Prize in Collaborative Piano, and the Edna Mason Scholarship. He received the Robert Starer Award for the Performance of a Work by a Living Composer at The City University of New York Brooklyn College, where he holds a Masters of Music Degree. He is a proud graduate of William Paterson University, holding the BM in Music Education, where received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Musician and the Music Scholar Award. During his time as a student at William Paterson, he was one of innaugural receipients of the Tami Cotsakos 71' Scholarship and named a Legacy Scholar.He cites his tutelage under a variety of pianists and keyboardists to be most profoundly influential, especially with Ursula Oppens, Alan Feinberg, Peter Sykes, Min Kwon, Gary Kirkpatrick, Richard Egarr, Béatrice Martin, Avi Stein, Skip Sempé, Jerome Lowenthal, Fred Hersch, Nicolas Hodges, Warren Jones, and Dr. Billy Taylor. Professional Interests Modernism in Piano Repertoire, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, Latin American Baroque Music, French Baroque, Historical Performance Practice, Early Keyboards, Taubman Approach, Gregorian Chant, Musical Gesture, Topic Theory Degrees GD Historical Performance, The Juilliard School New York, NY DMA Piano Performance, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Mason Gross School of the Arts , MM Piano Performance, The City University of New York Brooklyn College , BM Music Education, Piano , William Paterson University , Specialization Piano, Contemporary Music/New Music, Historical Performance, Chamber Music, Piano Literature, Piano Pedagogy Licenses and Certifications 05/31/2008 Certified Teacher, K-12 Music, State Representative Presentations Melody as Muse: Keyboard Continuity Through Song and Genre Polycultural America Lecture Series H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music Brooklyn, NY 2019 African-American Influence and American Piano Music of the 20th Century: Three Composers Celebrate 80 College Music Society 2018 National Conference College Music Society Vancouver, 2018 Jazz Composers and a New Concert Music The Intersection of Jazz and Classical Piano Conference Morgantown, WV 2015 The Piano Music of Frederic Rzewski NUNC! 1 Northwestern University New Music Conference Northwestern University New Music Conference Evanston, IL 2014 Harpsichord Works of György Ligeti and More Liszt and Hungary Ann Arbor, MI 2021 Awards and Honors The Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for Excellence in Piano or Organ 01/01/2017 Arthur G. Humphrey Memorial Prize in Collaborative Piano 01/01/2015 The Robert Starer Award for Performance of a Work by Living Composers 01/01/2010 Media Upcoming and Noteworthy: Piano Concerto "In the Beginning", Jinsil Lee, Composer; Carl Patrick Bolleia, Piano Soloist; Mark Hyczko, Conductor; New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra https://www.wwfm.org/ https://www.wwfm.org/upcoming-and-noteworthy/2017-06-01/new-brunswick-chamber-orchestra-on-fridays-noontime-concert-ginastera-fairouz-and-more The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR: WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces: Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program https://thegreenespace.org/ On Wednesday, May 6 at 1 pm ET join us for a special quarantine edition of Midday Masterpieces, featuring artists from Juilliard's Historical Performance program.Tombeau de Monsieur Blancrocher, Louis Couperin (1626-1662)Carl Patrick Bolleia, Harpsichord Beyond the Keys https://www.wwfm.org/ The title of this week's Between the Keys episode says it all: "Pianists You Should Know. Jed Distler, the Classical Network's Artist-in-Residence, presents recordings featuring.... Carl Patrick Bolleia.... and a pianist who is better known as a composer, yet whose piano playing was often underrated: the great Duke Ellington.Tune in Tuesday September 27th at 10 PM, with a rebroadcast Wednesday September 28th at noon, exclusively on The Classical Network and WWFM.org. Performances and Exhibits Here and Now Winter Festival: "More Music Parts I, II, & II", Frederic Rzewski (US Premiere); "Houdinization Suite", David Taylor (World Premiere), January 2023 Performance Bargemusic Promenade Musicale, December 2019 Performance Juilliard415 Cité de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris, Ampithéâter, Paris, France Madness and Folly, Night Music from Spain, October 2019 Concert Juilliard415 Alice Tully Hall, New York, New York Music as Living Art, June 2019 Recital Featuring the World Premiere of "Let it Shine" by Frederic Rzewski Carnegie Hall, New York, New York Dynamic Americas, September 2017 Recital Chinese Premieres of American Composers: Robert Aldridge, Whitney George and Charles Wuorinen, La Plantation Concert Hall 璃墟剧场 Beijing, China Fellowships, Grants and Research Academy of Fortepiano Performance Fellowship Notable Courses Taught Applied Music (Piano and Harpsichord); New Music Ensemble; Honors Capstone Thesis; Piano Literature; Piano Pedagogy Email 973 720 2592 111 Shea Center By appointment
