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American pianist William Wolfram was winner of the Silver Medal in both the William Kapell and the Naumberg International Piano Competitions. He also holds the distinction of Bronze medalist of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. A versatile recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, Mr. Wolfram has garnered the respect of musicians and the acclaim of critics across the country.

His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. He has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic to name just a few; and he enjoys regular and ongoing close associations with the Dallas Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony as well as the Minnesota Orchestra – with whom he completed a traversal of all Five Beethoven Piano Concerti in the summer of 2003. He has worked with conductors such as Mark Wigglesworth, Andrew Litton, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Spivakov, Andreas Delfs, Hans Vonk, Jeffrey Kahane, James Judd, Jerzy Semkow, Stefan Sanderling, JoAnn Falletta, James Paul, William Eddins, and Marin Alsop.

Overseas, Mr. Wolfram has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Budapest Philharmonic, the Capetown and Johannesberg Symphonies of South Africa and the National Symphony of Peru.

A very devoted supporter of contemporary music, he has close ties with composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Kenneth Frazelle, Marc Andre Dalbavie, Kenji Bunch, and Paul Chihara. His world premiere performance of the Chihara re-orchestration of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Andreas Delfs and the Milwaukee Symphony was met with great critical attention and acclaim.

His 2003-04 season appearances included concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Orchestra and the symphonies of Colorado Springs, Virginia, and Toledo to name a few.

He debuted in the 2004-05 season with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony and the Alabama Symphony and made return appearances to the orchestras of St. Louis, Indianapolis, Florida, Toledo and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.