I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

As a soloist Bolcom has recorded his own compositions as well as music by Gershwin and Milhaud (Johnson 2001). A. Paul Minnesota in April 2007.

Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.