Julia Wolfe is a musician and composer originally from Pennsylvania, who takes inspiration from politically charged oral histories, folk, classical and avant-garde pop and rock. Her concert-length oratorio for chorus and instruments, _Anthracite Fields_, drew on the stories of the Pennsylvania coal region, and won her the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for music. As well as winning several other prestigious prizes, such as the 2015 Herb Alpert Award in Music and a MacArthur fellowship in 2016, her composition works have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra, SITI Company and the Cincinnati Symphony, among others. Her convergence of socio-political histories with American and European musical forms have made her a renowned composer-as-storyteller.
