Orit Wolf
Israeli composer-pianist
Orit Wolf (Hebrew: אורית וולף; born 8 October 1974 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pianist, composer, poet and lecturer. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Arts at the Department of Humanities & Arts at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology.
Education
Starting at the age of six, Orit Wolf studied piano with Hanna Shalgi. At the age of 16, she graduated from Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts and studied with Alexander Volkov. She then began her academic studies at the Tel Aviv University under the direction of Arie Vardi. She also studied music composition and improvisation with Andre Hajdu while attending masterclasses given by Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Menachem Pressler, György Sebők, Gilbert Kalish and Peter Serkin.
In 1991, Wolf attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and then received a full Dean's scholarship to Boston University. She graduated from Boston University summa cum laude in piano performance under Benjamin Pasternack and Composer Lukas Foss.
Wolf received a post-graduate degree and her master's from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998 under the direction of Christopher Elton. She was also studying with Maria Curcio.
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