“Julia Wolfe has been named the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s first composer-in-residence in a new program of two-year residencies for female composers,” reports Scott Cantrell in Wednesday’s (9/13) Dallas Morning News. “She will work with music director-designate Fabio Luisi during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons on performances and workshops. Highlights of the residency will include a performance of Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields during the DSO’s 2019 Soluna International Music and Arts Festival, the Dallas premiere of a new co-commissioned work during the 2019-20 season, participation in a student composers’ workshop, organization of a chamber music concert, and involvement in the DSO’s ‘Women in Classical Music’ symposium, to be inaugurated in November 2019. A Philadelphia native best known as a co-founder and co-director of Bang on a Can, a New York contemporary-music organization, Wolfe holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Yale University and a doctorate from Princeton University. Her music, according to The Wall Street Journal, has ‘long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock.’ ”
Posted September 14, 2018
