Hayley Wolfe

Hayley Wolfe, violinist, made her concerto debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at age 12. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia, including solo and chamber music appearances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, and at the Ravinia and Marlboro Music Festivals.

Highlights of orchestral work include tours with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Bern, the Ensemble Modern Orchestra under Pierre Boulez, and principal work with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

With the sponsorship of the US Embassy in London, Hayley organized and performed a program of all American music to a capacity crowd at London’s Wigmore Hall. The concert included the European premieres of two great American song cycles, Aaron Jay Kernis’s Brilliant Sky, Infinite Sky, and Ned Rorem’s Aftermath – Ten Songs on Love and War, written in the wake of September 11, 2001.

As part of the Holland Music Sessions “New Masters on Tour”, and as winner of the Grand Prize at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition, Hayley has concertized widely as recitalist throughout Europe and the UK. She is winner of a Marshall Scholarship, and prizes from the Johansen International Competition in Washington DC and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Hayley studied from the age of ten at the Cleveland Institute of Music and received her Bachelor and Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School. She pursued further postgraduate work at London’s Royal Academy of Music and completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her principal teachers include David Russell, David Updegraff, Donald Weilerstein, Ronald Copes, Gyorgy Pauk and David Takeno.

Since 2009, Hayley enjoys a busy freelance career based in Berlin, Germany.