Julia Wolfe
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'Julia Wolfe' (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia and works in New York. Wolfe's music is rhythmically vigorous and often clangorously dissonant. As a composer associated with the downtown style of new music she is not averse to drawing on rock and minimalism as primary influences. Her music, however, shows a good deal more rhythmic complexity than is generally found in these genres, hence her music can properly be considered and described as postminimalist.
In 1987, Wolfe co-founded Bang on a Can together with composers David Lang and Michael Gordon, her husband.
In 2000 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
In 2003, Julia Wolfe joined the composition faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
Currently Julia Wolfe is Assistant Professor of Music Composition at New York University in the Steinhardt School.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Orchestra
Amber Waves of Grain (1988) - 8 minute(s) Orchestration 2(pic).222/432+btbn.1/4perc/hp/str
Cruel Sister (2004) - 35 minute(s) Orchestration str (min 65431)
Tell me everything (1994) - 8 minute(s) Orchestration 111.asx.1/1110/2perc/hp.pf/str (111.asx.1/1110/2perc/hp.pf/amp 2vn, amp va, amp vc, amp db)
The Vermeer Room (1989) - 15 minute(s) Orchestration 1(afl).11(bcl).1/11.btbn.0/2perc/pf/str (fl(afl), ob, cl(bcl), bn, hn, tpt, btbn, 2perc, pf, hp, 2vn, va, vc, db)
Window of Vulnerability (1991) - 9 minute(s) Orchestration 3(2pic).3.3(bcl).2+cbn/4.3.3(btbn).1/timp.4perc/hp.syn.pf/str
[edit] Soloist(s) and Orchestra
My Beautiful Scream (2003) - 25 minute(s) Soloist(s) amplified string quartet Orchestration 3(pic).2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3.2+btbn.1/4perc/amp pf.hp.ebgtr/str
Steel Hammer (2009) - 75 minutes 3 Singers Appalachian & traditional instruments Orchestration Cello, Contrabass, 1 perc, 1 pno, el guit-bjo-dulc, ca/bcl
[edit] Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
Arsenal of Democracy (1993) - 9 minute(s) Orchestration 1(pic).00.ssx+asx+barsx.0/132+btbn.0/bgtr/pf
Girlfriend (1988) - 18 minute(s) Orchestration all instruments amplified: fl(afl,pic), cl(bcl), full-size MIDI kbd with Electric Organ sound, perc, twelve cheap wine glasses (to be stomped on, 2 per player), vn, vc, audio tape with click track
Steam (1995) - 7 minute(s) Orchestration fl, vc, eorg, Harry Partch instruments
[edit] Soloist(s) and Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
Accordion Concerto ("True Love") (2005) - 20 minute(s) Soloist(s) Accordion Orchestration 1.1.1(bcl).1/1.1.1.1/perc/hp.pf/str (1.1.1.1.1)
[edit] Works for 2-6 Players
Believing (1997) - 9 minute(s) Orchestration amplified sextet
Believing (expanded version) (1997) - 20 minute(s) Orchestration amplified sextet
Close Together (2000) - 18 minute(s) Orchestration cello, percussion, electronic tape
Dark Full Ride (2002) - 18 minute(s) Orchestration four drum sets
Dig Deep Orchestration string quartet
Early That Summer (1993) - 12 minute(s) Orchestration str4t
Four Marys (1991) - 12 minute(s) Orchestration str4t
Lick (1994) - 8 minute(s) Orchestration all instruments amplified: ssx, perc, pf, egtr, vc, db
Mink Stole (1997) - 10 minute(s) Orchestration vn, pf
on seven-star-shoes (1985) - 6 minute(s) Orchestration fl(pic), ob, cl(bcl), bn, hn
Strong Hold (2008) - 25 minute(s) Orchestration 8 Double Basses
[edit] Solo Keyboard(s)
6 Pianos Orchestration 6 pf
Compassion (2001) - 7 minute(s) Orchestration piano
Earring (2001) - 2 minute(s) Orchestration piano
East Broadway (1996) Orchestration toy piano, toy boombox
my lips from speaking (1993) - 13 minute(s) Orchestration 6 pianos
[edit] Film
- New York Composers: Searching for a New Music (1997). Directed by Michael Blackwood. Produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, in association with Westdeutscher Rundfunk. New York, New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.
[edit] Other
Democracy (1999) - 15 minute(s) Orchestration electronic tape
[edit] Recordings
- Julia Wolfe: The String Quartets including artists Ethel, Cassatt String Quartet, and Lark Quartet (2003)
- Arsenal of Democracy by Julia Wolfe (1996)
- Lost Objects with artists Michael Gordon, David Lang, Roger Epple, Andrew Watts, Daniel Taylor, and Concerto Köln (2001)
- Bang on a Can Live, Vol. 1 with artists David Mott, Robert Black, Anna Cholakian, Karl Parens, and Andrew Sterman (1994)
