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Described by the Chicago Tribune as “a musician of quicksilver brilliance,” Aaron Wolff is a laureate of the 2024 Naumburg Cello Competition, and first prizewinner of the Boston Symphony Concerto competition. As winner of the Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Prize, he made his Carnegie Hall debut in Weil Recital Hall in 2023, and has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, and Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums.
Committed equally to music new and old, highlights of the ‘24-‘25 season include performances with Grammy award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird, the premiere of Anna Heflin’s monodrama The Incomplete Cosmicomics at Experiments in Opera, and recitals presented by Valley of the Moon and The Dame Myra Hess series. He has been a return attendee to IMS Prussia Cove, Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program and Lucerne Festival Academy.
Aaron has found creative outlets in acting – most notably a lead role in the Coen brothers’ film A Serious Man – and in arranging and writing about music: he has provided string arrangements for Comedy Central’s sitcom Broad City and concert reviews for the online journal I Care If You Listen.
Aaron holds a BA in comparative literature from Oberlin College and an MM and Artist Diploma from Juilliard. His primary mentors have been Natasha Brofsky, Darrett Adkins, Joel Krosnick, Tim Eddy and Fred Sherry. He is now pursuing a DMA at CUNY’s Graduate Center with violinist Mark Steinberg. He plays an 1813 Thomas Kennedy cello made in London.