Bruce Wolosoff

Bruce Wolosoff (born March 27, 1955) is an American classical composer, pianist, and educator. He lives in Shelter Island, New York with his wife, the artist Margaret Garrett. He has two daughters, the singer-songwriter Juliet Garrett and the sculptor and mixed media artist Katya Wolosoff. Biography Wolosoff was born Bruce Germont, the son of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Marc Germont. After his father’s death when Wolosoff was five years old, his mother remarried to Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff. As a teenager, Wolosoff played in a variety of rock bands while pursuing studies in classical piano performance. He received a B.A. at Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower and ran an improvisational group with multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp, and an M.M. in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. It was at the New England Conservatory that he met jazz composer-pianist Jaki Byard, an artist who exerted enormous influence on Wolosoff’s musical development. Wolosoff studied composition and orchestration with Lawrence Widdoes, and pursued post-graduate studies at the Dalcroze School of Music with Dr. Hilda Schuster. Wolosoff’s principal piano