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“A FULL-BORE THRILL RIDE OF KINETIC VIRTUOSITY.”
Chicago Tribune
“THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT OF NEW YORK'S AVANT-GARDE MUSIC SCENE.”
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from the album- Music for Airports
1/1 (Eno/Wyatt/Davies)
from the album- Bang on a Can Meets Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Hsaing Kyaik de Maung (Naing)
from the album- A Ballad for Many (Bang on a Can with Don Byron)
Show Him Some Lub (Byron)

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Biography

Julia Wolfe

Drawing inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, Julia Wolfe's music brings a modern sensibility to each while simultaneously tearing down the walls between them. Wolfe's music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, Wolfe has "long inhabited a terrain of [her] own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock."

Wolfe, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for her recent work Steel Hammer, has had her music performed at BAM, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, Settembre Musica (Italy), Theatre de la Ville (Paris), Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and has been recorded on Cantaloupe, Teldec, Point/Universal, Sony Classical, and Argo/ Decca. Recent projects include Steel Hammer - an evening length art ballad for Trio Mediaeval and the Bang on a Can All-Stars that premiered at Zankel Hall this past season, and Travel Music – a recently created city-wide spectacle with architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro in Bordeaux, France. Upcoming projects include new works for Evelyn Glennie, the Asko Ensemble, Ethel, and a percussion concerto for Collin Currie. Her CD Dark Full Ride, with works for 9 bagpipes, 4 drumsets, 6 pianos, and 8 double basses, was recently released on the Cantaloupe label in November 2009.

Wolfe joined the NYU Steinhardt School’s composition faculty in the fall of 2009. She is co-founder of New York's music collective Bang on a Can.