Julia Wolfe
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Julia Wolfe is an American composer, musician, and music educator. Born in Philadelphia in 1958, she works within the genre of contemporary classical music and post-minimalism. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and speaks English.
Wolfe has received the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Fulbright Scholarship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. She was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her work is included in the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellows collections.
She was educated at Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and Yale University. Wolfe has served as a university teacher at New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Her students include Kate Moore.
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
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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 postminimali
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- human
- Given name
- Julia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- Manhattan School of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Official website
- juliawolfemusic.com
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- Julia Wolfe.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1958-12-18
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
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