Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958)[1] is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to the Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music 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".[2] Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music.[3][4][5][6][7] She has also received the Herb Alpert Award (2015) and was named a MacArthur Fellow (2016).