Julia Wolfe

Quick Facts

Date Of Birth	Dec 18, 1958(1958-12-18)
Age	66
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Julia Wolfe Biography

Julia Wolfe is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on December 18, 1958 in Philadelphia, United States. As of June 1, 2023, Julia has a net worth approximately $5 Million. Wolfe received a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Amsterdam in 1992. In 2012, Wolfe received a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University. She has been a Professor of Music Composition at New York University in the Steinhardt School since 2009, prior to which she was an Adjunct Professor at the Manhattan School of Music for seven years. In 2015 Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work Anthracite Fields, and in 2016 she was named a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. In 2018, she was a recipient of an honorary degree from Drew University in New Jersey.

Wolfe’s work with film includes Fuel for the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz and filmmaker Bill Morrison, and Impatience and Combat de Boxe for the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble and 1920s film experimentalist Charles Dekeukeleire.

Born in Philadelphia, Wolfe has a twin brother and an older brother. As a teenager she learned piano but she only began to study music seriously after taking a musicianship class at the University of Michigan, where she received a B.A. in music and theater as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. In her early twenties Wolfe wrote music for an all-female theatre troupe. On a trip to New York, she became friends with composition students Michael Gordon and David Lang, both of whom had recently attended the Yale School of Music and who encouraged her to apply. She went to Yale in 1984 and studied primarily with Martin Bresnick, and she married Michael Gordon the same year. After receiving her M.M. in 1986, Wolfe, Gordon, and Lang founded the new music collective Bang on a Can in 1987.

Wolfe is one of the founders and artistic directors of Bang on a Can (alongside fellow composers Michael Gordon and David Lang), best known for its Marathon Concerts during which an eclectic mix of pieces are performed in succession over the course of many hours while audience members are welcome to come and go as they please. For the twentieth anniversary of their Marathon Concerts, Bang on a Can presented twenty-six hours of uninterrupted music at the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium in New York City. In 1992, Bang on a Can founded the chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Julia Wolfe Net Worth

Julia is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Julia Wolfe 's net worth $5 Million.

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Julia Wolfe Husband

According to our records, Julia Wolfe married to Michael Gordon. As of January 12, 2023, Julia Wolfe’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Julia Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Julia Wolfe celebrates birthday on December 18 of every year.

Where does Julia Wolfe live now?

Wolfe and Gordon are married and have two children. They live in lower Manhattan.

Where is Julia Wolfe from?

Philadelphia, PA

What instrument did Julia Wolfe play?

She grew up with parents who loved classical music, but when she was studying piano as a child she preferred to play show tunes from “West Side Story” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” In high school, she picked up guitar and began writing folk songs with outré harmonies, mimicking Joni Mitchell.

Where did Julia Wolfe grow up?

Born in 1958, she was raised in a small town in Pennsylvania, not far from the anthracite region. “I didn’t grow up around miners,” Wolfe told the Los Angeles Times. “But the sensibility of the region wasn’t so different from the small town where I did grow up, so it felt familiar.”

Where is Wolfe a professor?

Wolfe is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.