Julia Wolfe
Julia Wolfe (°1958, Philadelphia) studeerde aan het Residential College van de University of Michigan en aan de Yale School of Music. Wolfe is een multitalent: naast compositie volgde ze ook stemvorming en een theater- en dansopleiding. Wolfe's muziek is instinctief en organisch, doordrongen van een diep gevoel voor "zeldzame schoonheid", zoals de componist Evan Ziporyn beschrijft. Haar composities werden reeds uitgevoerd in het Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, The Kitchen, Arena Stage Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art en in Tanglewood.
Laatst aangepast op 19/1/2006.
Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer. She is a University Professor at New York University, where she is
artistic director of music composition at the Steinhardt School.
With Michael Gordon and David
Lang she co-founded the New York new music organization Bang on a Can in
1987.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock". Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. She has also received the Herb Alpert Award (2015) and was named a MacArthur Fellow (2016).
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