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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.”
The New Yorker
“IF ALL CONTEMPORARY-CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS WERE LIKE THIS, THERE WOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM WITH CONTEMPORARY-CLASSICAL MUSIC.”
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News and Events

06.02.10
Hot 8 Brass Band to be featured in new Spike Lee film for HBO
The Hot 8 Brass Band is featured in the upcoming Spike Lee film entitled "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise."

05.24.10
Viver Brasil wins Lester Horton Dance Award
Viver Brasil recently won the Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Dance

Performance Highlights

07.30.10
Christopher O'Riley
Caramoor International Music Festival
Spanish Courtyard- Katonah, NY

08.05.10
ETHEL
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, NY

08.28.10
Turtle Island Quartet
Waterstage - Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA

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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

Julia Wolfe's music is muscular and kinetic and experienced through the body. She creates journeys like unfolding dramatic landscapes, a music meant to be entered into by the listener. Wolfe's work is distinguished by this intense focus on sound, the power of sound, the ways in which sound is related to memory and experience, the possibilities for new harmonies between familiar chords and micro tonal tunings or sounds found in nature and the urban world. With a care and attention to detail that is both masterful and highly respectful, Wolfe's music celebrates the extraordinary qualities contained within something as specific as a gesture or an inflection.

Julia Wolfe's music is heard around the world in performances at the Next Wave Festival at BAM, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, Settembre Musica (Italy), the Holland Festival, Theatre de la Ville (Paris), the San Francisco Symphony, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, and more. Upcoming works include a new work FUEL for Ensemble Resonanz with a film by Bill Morrison, and an evening length work with film for the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Recent collaborations with composers Michael Gordon and David Lang with writer Deborah Artman include Shelter written for musikFabrik and Trio Mediaeval with staging by the Ridge Theater Company; Lost Objects, an oratorio with Concerto Koln directed by Francois Girard; with Gordon and Lang The Carbon Copy Building with comic book artist Ben Katchor and the Ridge Theater. For The Carbon Copy Building, she received the 2000 Village Voice OBIE Award for Best New American Work. Wolfe received a 2001 Obie award for the music to Jennie Ritchie, a collaboration with playwright Mac Wellman and Ridge Theater.