# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-bolcom
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:57:45.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-bolcom"
name: "William Bolcom"
slug: "william-bolcom"
description: "William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, and the Detroit Music Award, and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America in 2007. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 2008 and was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition in 2006. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris."
tagline: "American composer (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Bolcom_at_Town_Hall_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.14158266666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0092741"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://williambolcom.com"
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    title: "William Bolcom"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump