Education
He studied composition privately with David Delegate Tredici and Joseph Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy He is a member of the Common Sense Composers Collective.
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Randall Woolf
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He is composer-mentor for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In 1997 he composed a new ballet of “Where the Wild Things Are,” in collaboration with Maurice Sendak and Septime Webre. He works frequently with John Cale, notably on his scores to Saint-Cyr (2000), American Psycho (2000) and Y Mabinogi (2003).
John Cale and Mr.
Woolf collaborated on a performance of all the songs from Cale"s most celebrated solo album Paris 1919, by Cale and his band, with orchestral arrangements by Woolf. The new version was performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall in March, 2010, and subsequently in Melbourne, Australia, Brescia, Italy, Los Angeles and Paris, France. Woolf"s Orchestra piece, White Heat was commissioned and premiered at the Tanglewood music center, in 1989.
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