Bruce Babcock Composer
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  • May 4, 2023

    Hugo actually had a career in film music which predated the introduction of sound into motion pictures in 1927. This career, as a cellist in theater orchestras in San Francisco, was actually ended by the advent of talkies. Arriving in [...]

  • April 27, 2023

             Nick Gianopoulos has posted a YouTube score-video of my Time & Again, written for and recorded by pianist Anna Kislitsyna. Thanks, Nick! Click on the page below to go to the Score-Video . . [...]

Music

Latest Releases

SUSTAIN VOL. 3 - Album Cover
PIANO SPECTRUMS - Album Cover
Playing on the Edge 2
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Upcoming Events

  • 10
    November
    2023
    “Nevertheless” at Carnegie Hall

    Trio Casals (Ovidiu Marinescu, cello, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, & Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin) will premiere my new piano trio "NEVERTHELESS" Friday, November 10, 2023, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City.

    Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
    New York, United States
  • 10
    August
    2023
    Navona Release of “Nevertheless” by Trio Casals

    Coming August 10, 2023 on the Trio Casals album A GRAND JOURNEY 2 on the Navona label. Available on all of the usual platforms. Alexandr Kislitsyna, violin, Anna Kislitsyna, piano, & Ovidiu Marinescu, cello

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Featured Reviews

“An impression of musicality which is very pleasant, indeed… a convincing sense of an overall mood… knows what he wants … sure of what he’s doing.”

– Aaron Copland

“…a musician who blends superior craftsmanship with a colourful, expressive sense of narrative.”

– Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone
on TIME, STILL

“Like a master sculptor of sonic marble, Babcock carves out wonderfully energetic dissonances; never allowing an unneeded doubling to disrupt his perfect balance.”

– Casey Cook, judge, The American Prize
on Be Still