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"Pianist ELIZABETH WOLFF has developed a large following both as a chamber musician and as a soloist. She has collaborated with such noted string quartets as the Shanghai, the Brunswick, the Rosamonde, and the Zapolski, and has participated in music festivals including Music Mountain, Aspen, Music at La Gesse, Mohonk, The Beethoven Festival, and the Festival de Musique en Lorraine.
Founder and Director of Music at Lake Willoughby, Miss Wolff has also been on chamber music faculties of Summertrios and Music Mountain. Currently, she is Co-Director of Chamber Music Retreats at Vassar.
Miss Wolff is recipient of numerous awards and sponsorships including the Pro Musicis Foundation's International Award, The Belsky Music Award, a Music at La Gesse Fellowship, and The Jerome Foundation debut recording grant. In New York, she has been presented as soloist for three consecutive seasons on The Distinguished Artist Series at The Tisch Center of the 92nd Street 'Y', at Merkin Concert Hall and Florence Gould Hall by Pro Musicis, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at Weill Recital Hall. As well, she is often featured pianist in live radio broadcasts on WQXR, WNCN and WNYC. Other United States solo concert performances include The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, The Schubert Club in St. Paul, and numerous Pro Musicis sponsored national recital tours. Miss Wolff's appearance at London's Purcell Room received rave critical acclaim and was followed with highly successful tours of Austria, Holland and France. She was invited back to Vienna to perform works of Brahms in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his death.
Miss Wolff's affinity for and love of the piano works of Rachmaninoff have garnered special notice. She was guest soloist on WQXR's "Russian Nights" special broadcast, she conducted master classes as well as performed in recital at the renowned Rachmaninoff Institute in Tambov, Russia, and most recently she performed for the International Conference of the Rachmaninoff Society in London and Vienna. Of Miss Wolff's recording of the Six Moments Musicaux, Opus 16, American Record Guide noted, "I have never heard anything quite like the enchanting soft playing in No. 5, and No. 6 is a remarkable performance...a stimulating and musical pianist." This disc has been re-issued, and included on it is a premiere recording of the two sets of Moments Musicaux (Opus 7 and 84) by Moritz Moszkowski.
Elizabeth Wolff's commitment to teaching is demonstrated through the broad range of her educational activities. These include an adjunct lectureship at Hunter College, presentations for The College Music Society, her lecture/recital series entitled Minding the Score, chamber music coaching in affiliation with The 92nd Street YMHA School of Music and with Chamber Music Associates, and her class of individual students. Miss Wolff received a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Science degree from The Juilliard School where she was a scholarship student of Rosina Lhevinne. Other teachers include Seymour Bernstein, Jeaneane Dowis, and Benjamin Kaplan."^^xsd:string
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