Wolfe’s critically-acclaimed work Fuel was given its Dutch premiere by the Residentie Orkest. Click here for more.
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Steel Hammer live streaming on WQXR
Click on the WQXR streaming player to hear a live recording of Steel Hammer with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and vocalists Emily Eagen, Katie Geissinger and Molly Quinn recfrom October 14, 2014 at Brookfield Place’s Winter Garden in New York City.
This performance was presented in partnership with Arts Brookfield and WNYC’s New Sounds Live and hosted by John Schaefer…
continue readingJulia Wolfe named 2016 MacArthur Fellow
Julia 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.
Composer Residency: Univ of Michigan, Jan 20
On January 20, Julia Wolfe joins the U-M Contemporary Directions Ensemble, directed by Oriol Sans, for an evening of conversation and performances of her small ensemble works.
This concert is part of a week-long residency by Ms. Wolfe (a U-M alum) to develop Fire in my Mouth, an evening-length orchestral work co-commissioned by UMS with the New York Philharmonic, Cal Performances and the Krannert Center.
This event is free and open to the public; no tickets required…
continue readingFirst complete performance of string quartets
String Quartets
first complete performance
February 28, 7:30PM
ETHEL
The Jewish Museum
Scheuer Auditorium
NYC
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NPR feature on ‘Fire in my mouth’ recorded by NY Phil released August 30
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Julia Wolfe has carved out her brilliant career with the same raucous drive and profound spirit that is reflected in the music she writes. Wolfe’s co-founding of the New York new music collective Bang on a Can in 1987 set her on a path to help alter the musical landscape not only in New York City, where she lives and works, but around the world…
continue readingConcertgebouw Orchestra streams ‘Fountain of Youth’
Until February 6, the fiery Concertgebouw Orchestra, with the terrific conductor Klaus Mäkelä, streams Wolfe’s recent piece: Fountain of Youth. Click here to watch their performance.
The piece is noisy, it’s youthful. Washboards! Wild trumpet screams!
People have searched for the fountain of youth for thousands of years. The thought was that if you bathed in or drank from the fountain of youth you would be transformed, rejuvenated…
continue readingHer Story Boston Symphony Orchestra premiere
Her Story
Boston Symphony Orchestra
with Lorelei
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
March 16-18
followed by performances with:
San Francisco Symphony and National Symphony
[Her Story] has a ferocity that is literally written into the score, but also an absence of resolution as it looks back to suffrage with one wary eye toward the future steps this country still needs to take for something resembling true equality…
continue readingBerlin Philharmonic premieres ‘Pretty’
world premiere
Kirill Petrenko, conductor
June 8, 9, 10
June 8-10, conductor Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Pretty. Co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Pretty was the third premiere of Wolfe’s in as many weeks — beginning May 25 in San Francisco with the west coast premiere of Her Story, and then June 1-3 with the New York Philharmonic’s world premiere of unEarth…
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