Hugh Wolff
Hugh Wolff ( born October 21, 1953 in Paris ) is an American conductor.
Life
Wolff studied with George Crumb (composition) and Leon Fleisher (piano) and at Harvard, under Leon Kirchner majoring in Composition and a minor in piano with Leonard Shure until graduation. Then he received a year " fellowship " in Paris. There he studied conducting with Charles Bruck and composition with Olivier Messiaen.
Career
His career as a conductor, he started in 1979. He was able to take an assistant position under Mstislav Rostropovich at the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington by the Exxon - promotion program. In the same year he was able by a successful representation of the diseased Antal Dorati a tour, great public recognition, quit.
His debut at Carnegie Hall, with Rostropovich as soloist cello and orchestra, he gave in 1980. Starting in 1982, he was " Associate Conductor " until 1985 he took over the leadership of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. From 1992 to 2000 he was Music Director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 1997 to 2006 Head of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (formerly Radio - Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt). Today he has regular engagements with the major U.S., German and international orchestras. Since autumn 2008, Wolff has the position of " Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Director of Orchestras " at the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston held.
Hugh Wolff has a very extensive repertoire, ranging from the early Baroque to the avant-garde. He is a specialist in American music (eg, George Antheil, Aaron Jay Kernis ) and has, with its historically informed Beethoven and Haydn interpretations together with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra standards.
Hugh Wolff is married to Judith Kogan.
Awards
- 2006 Rheingau Music Prize
- 2006 Hessian Merit