An Evening with AAron Wolff
Tuesday, July 14th at 7pm • The Red Door, Emeryville
Cellist Aaron Wolff performs two masterworks from two different eras—the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C major, and the 20th century Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály’s Sonata in B minor, considered one of the greatest solo cello works written since the former’s famous suites.
— drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served —
Program
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No, 3 in C major, BWV 1009
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY
Sonata for Solo Cello in B minor, Op.8
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Aaron Wolff
Described as “a musician of quicksilver brilliance,” (Chicago Tribune), Aaron Wolff is a prizewinner of the 2024 Naumburg Cello Competition and cellist of the four-time Grammy-award winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird. As the recipient of the Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Prize, he made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2023, and has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, and Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums.
Aaron has also 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 provided string arrangements for Comedy Central’s sitcom Broad City and concert reviews for the online journal I Care If You Listen.
He is now pursuing a doctorate at CUNY Graduate Center, where his research will focus on the maverick musical life of cellist and composer Arthur Russell. He plays an 1813 Thomas Kennedy cello made in London.