Biography Wikipedia
Wikipedia:
Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia, holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Princeton and Yale, and currently 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. She was awarded a grant in 2000 from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In 2010, Wolfe was nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[1]
In 2003, she joined the composition faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. Currently she is Director of Music Composition at New York University in the Steinhardt School.
Works
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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.Other
Democracy (1999) - 15 minute(s) Orchestration electronic tape