From November 5-11, two European festivals feature music by Julia Wolfe: • 11/5: Sounds of Music Festival (Groningen, NL) — the JACK Quartet performs Early that summer• 11/7: Strings of Autumn Fesitval (Prague, CZ) — Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Anthracite Fields with Martinů Voices• 11/8: Sounds of Music Festival — Trash Panda Collective […]
Read MoreFrom May 10-13, Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ presents cellist Maya Beiser and friends in a new evening-length work by Julia Wolfe called “Spinning”, which celebrates the work once performed by hand by women. Music has long been a vital part of the craft — both as a propelling force and as a distraction. To […]
Read MoreThursday, April 20, 2017Louisville Symphony OrchestraTeddy Abrams, conductorLouisville, KY “ Big Beautiful Dark and Scary is one continuous and compelling swell that lives up to every adjective in the title. Wolfe’s music is constantly pushing forward through waves of tension and tremolo until it finally releases a scant 10 seconds before the end of the […]
Read MoreAs Trump Tries to Revive Coal, an Oratorio Confronts Mining’s Past By MICHAEL COOPER APRIL 4, 2017 LEWISBURG, Pa. — Onstage, a choir intoned the names of coal miners whose deaths and injuries had landed them on the Pennsylvania Mining Accident index more than a century ago. In the lobby, members of the audience — […]
Read MoreJulia Wolfe has been named a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Go to macfound.org for more information.
Read MoreAs part of the New York Commissions to honor the New York Philharmonic’s 175th season (2016-17) with New York-themed works by New York-based composers who have strong ties to the Philharmonic, Julia Wolfe presents a new evening-length piece for orchestra and women’s choir about women in the American work force. The Philharmonic plans to present […]
Read MoreIn April, the Bang on a Can All-Stars travel to Europe for a blockbuster set of concerts, including the European premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields and the Dutch premiere of her Steel Hammer. On Saturday April 16, Wolfe’s Pulitzer prize-winning, Anthracite Fields, a concert-length work for chorus and instruments, receives its European premiere with […]
Read MoreRead LA Times review ofWest Coast premiere at Disney HallThe Los Angeles Master Chorale andthe Bang on a Can All-Stars April 16, 2016The Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen click here to stream the musicclick here for the full album “[Anthracite Fields] captures not only the sadness of hard lives lost…but also of the sweetness and […]
Read MoreJulia Wolfe’s, Anthracite Fields, her Pulitzer prize-winning oratorio for chorus and amplified ensemble, has received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Click here to listen to an NPR feature on Anthracite Fields. Wolfe wrote the work after doing extensive research about the coal-mining industry in an area very near where she grew up […]
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