Ear Candy: Symphony Orchestra with Wind Ensemble & Julia Wolfe
Saturday, February 21 @ 7:30 pm
Armstrong Concert Hall
Emanuele Andrizzi, Artistic Director & Conductor
Ear Candy New Music Festival
Symphony Orchestra with Wind Ensemble & Julia Wolfe
Presented as part of Shenandoah Conservatory’s Ear Candy New Music Festival, the Symphony Orchestra and special guests present a program that bridges impressionist beauty with contemporary innovation.
The Wind Ensemble (Timothy J. Robblee, conductor) opens the concert with the bold imagination and sonic brilliance of 2025/26 distinguished composer-in-residence and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe. Zigzag, newly commissioned by a consortium that included Shenandoah Conservatory, is a high-energy, rhythmically charged work pulsing with drive and daring.
The program concludes with Wolfe’s electrifying Flower Power, a genre-defying piece infused with rhythmic vitality and countercultural spirit, featuring the Symphony Orchestra and special guest faculty soloists.
Part of a weekend celebrating the visionary voices shaping today’s musical landscape — while honoring the masters who paved the way — this performance promises to surprise, challenge and inspire.
Meet the Guest Composer
Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. She draws inspiration from folk, classical and rock genres, bringing a modern sensibility to each while simultaneously tearing down the walls between them.
In addition to receiving the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Wolfe was a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. She received the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in Music and was named Musical America’s 2019 Composer of the Year. Wolfe is co-founder/co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can, and she is Artistic Director of NYU Steinhardt Music Composition.
Her music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co., New York (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by the Universal Music Publishing Group.
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