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percussion concerto premieres
July 11, 2012
On October 11 on the Ether Festival at London’s Southbank Centre, international percussion super star, Colin Currie (with Keith Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra) premieres Wolfe’s newest work for orchestra, riSE and fLY for percussion and orchestra, at the South Bank Centre’s Ether Festival in London.
Using street percussion (buckets and junk percussion) and Appalachian body percussion, Wolfe weaves the soloist into the quilted texture of the orchestra to create an introspective and breathtaking experience…
Read MoreBang on a Can All-Stars Premiere Field Recordings
July 1, 2012
At the Barbican Centre in London, on March 20, 2012, the Bang on a Can All-Stars premiere Field Recordings — with new works by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe. The evening-length project that is as much a mystery as a concert – a kind of ghost story. The ghosts aren’t the physical presence of people gone before, but they are the ghosts of sounds, images, ideas, and voices. Each composer has been asked to find and interact with something recorded before, using the power of music made right in front of us to reach out to other things not present…
Read MoreFuel Receives Dutch Premiere
June 5, 2012
Wolfe’s critically-acclaimed work Fuel was given its Dutch premiere by the Residentie Orkest. Click here for more.
Read MoreSteel Hammer receives Boston Premiere
June 5, 2012
Julia Wolfe Miller Theater Portrait Concert February 3 works for string orchestra
January 30, 2012
Read the New York Times Preview
Miller Theater at Columbia University presents a portrait concert of the music of Julia Wolfe on February 3.
New York’s Signal Ensemble, conducted by Brad Lubman, gives the NY premieres of Wolfe’s two string orchestra works, Fuel and Cruel Sister.
New CD: Cruel Sister
“Though Ms. Wolfe never directly quotes this mournful song, she painstakingly depicts the story…
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