Luna Pearl Woolf

Composer Luna Pearl Woolf has long used her creative voice to advocate for social
and political change. Her music, characterized by its penetrating focus on music’s
capacity as a storytelling language, has been praised by The New York Times for its
“psychological nuances and emotional depth” (The New York Times) and “brilliant,
wrenching… profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto)

In the 2021 GRAMMY-nominated composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF:
Fire and Flood, The Times’s Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim writes, “Woolf trains a
zoom lens on the collective experience, plunging us right into the midst of
destruction and anarchy only to pull back, in one swoop, to a clear-eyed plane of
compassion.”

Woolf’s opera commissions include the Dora award-winning Jacqueline, on the
legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré, for Tapestry Opera, and Better Gods, about
Hawaii’s Queen Lili‘uokalani, for Washington National Opera. Her opera, The Pillar,
was awarded one of Opera America’s inaugural Discovery Grants.

Noted collaborators include librettists/writers Royce Vavrek, Cornelia Funke,
Andrea Stolowitz and Eleanor Wilner, and actors/performers Jeremy Irons, Matt
Haimovitz, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Frederica von Stade and Joyce Didonato, among
many others.

An accomplished recording producer and dramaturg, Woolf co-founded the
ground-breaking Oxingale Records in 2000, and launched publisher Oxingale
Music in 2010. Woolf’s music an be heard on the PENTATONE label.