Bruce Adolphe is a composer, pianist, author, and educator whose work connects musical performance with literature, science, and public conversation. His music has been performed by artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Daniel Hope, and by ensembles such as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Brentano String Quartet. Since 1992, he has developed programs for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he founded the family concert series Meet the Music! and serves as resident lecturer. His collaborations include Self Comes to Mind with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio and Einstein’s Light, written for Joshua Bell. Adolphe has taught at Yale, Juilliard, and New York University, and has written books on musical imagination, listening, and teaching.