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Award-winning composer Luna Pearl Woolf has long used her evocative voice to advocate for social and political change. Her work has been praised as “brilliant … profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto) for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth” (NY Times). Her dramatic works are championed by major opera houses and international performing artists.
Woolf’s oratorio Number Our Days, with concept and libretto by David Van Taylor, was commissioned and premiered by PAC NYC in its inaugural 2023-2024 season, receiving a thunderous response: “extraordinary, completely original…new and electrifying,” “death-affirming, life-inciting,” “elegiac, funny, haunting…poetic, and utterly unique.”
Canada’s CBC Music named the JUNO award-nominated recording Vagues et Ombres including Woolf’s 2022 work, Contact, as their #1 Classical Album of the year; and her 2021 composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood (Pentatone Oxingale Series) was nominated for a GRAMMY Award.
Woolf’s opera Jacqueline, about legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré, with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, commissioned and premiered by Tapestry Opera, was hailed as an “extraordinary piece, one that deserves an unquestioned place in the 21st-century canon” (The Globe and Mail). Its 2020 premiere garnered five nominations and a win in Toronto’s prestigious Dora Awards.
Woolf mentors new opera creators in her work with Montreal’s Musique 3 Femmes, and teaches about the intersection of text and music at institutions such as the National Theater School of Canada and McGill University. She is co-founder of Oxingale Productions, a ground-breaking record label and music publisher supporting new music by lyrical and innovative contemporary composers.
A dual Canadian-American citizen, Woolf was born Western Massachusetts and lives in Montréal, Quebec.
Luna Pearl Woolf – Works
Catalog # | Piece Title | Instrumentation, Duration |
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OM01100 | Mar y sol (2023) | Contralto, Piano, 10′ |
OM0199 | Steeped (2023) | Cello and Marimba, 7′ |
OM0198 | Number Our Days (2024) | Oratorio, 90′ |
OM0197 | l’Inconnu.e bouleversant.e (2023) | For Solo Violin, 5′ |
OM0196 | The Ingenious Sister (2022) | For Panflute and String Quartet. 7′ |
OM0195 | Journey (2022) | Soprano and Piano, 4′ |
OM0194 | Contact (2021) | String Ensemble, 12′ |
OM0181 | The Limit of the Sun (2022 in-progress) | An Opera in Two Acts, ~120′ |
OM0180 | Diaphanous Grace (2020) | Solo Cello, 6′ |
OM0179 | Project Earth (2020) | Flexible Trio, 12′ |
OM0178 | Climbing the Sea (2019) | Soprano, Piano, 5′ |
OM0177 | Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC (2019) | Tenor, Piano, 2′ |
OM0174 | Ballad of a Hair Model (2019) | Mezzo-Soprano, Piano, 5′ |
OM0173 | Who by Fire (arr. 2016) | Voice Trio, Solo Cello, 4′ |
OM0172 | Still Life Suite (1996) | Full Orchestra, 15′ |
OM0171 | Too Many Vodka Tonics (2018) | String Quartet, 5′ |
OM0170 | To the Fire (1994/rev. 2018) | AATTBB Choir a capella, 13′ |
OM0169 | Between the Bars (2018) | Soprano, Cello, Piano, 5′ |
OM0168 | The Going From a World We Know (arr. 2012) | Two Trios of Women’s Voices, Baritone, Cello, Piano, 3′ |
OM0167 | But I Digress… (2017) | String Ensemble, Percussion Quartet, 15′ |
OM0166 | Traum durch die Dämmerung (2017) | Soprano, Piano, 5′ |
OM0165 | Missa in Fine Orbis Terrae (2017) | Choir, Organ, 11′ |
OM0164 | Helter Skelter (arr. 2012) | Solo Cello, 5′ |
OM0163 | Act Without Words I (2017) | Solo B-Flat Clarinet, 15′ |
OM0162 | Jacqueline (2019) | An Opera in Four Movements |
OM0160 | Entanglement (2016) | Cello, Percussion, 10′ |
OM0159 | Tippet Fugue (2016) | Cello Piccolo, Harpsichord, 3′ |
OM0158 | Everybody Knows (arr. 2016) | For Voice Trio, Solo Cello, 5′ |
OM0157 | Arpeggione Sonata (1824/2017) | Solo Cello, String Orchestra, 23′ |
OM0156 | One to One to One (2016) | 3 Female Voices, 3 Cellos, 3 Basses, 19′ |
OM0155 | Lili’uokalani (2015) | Solo Cello or Cello Piccolo, 10′ |
OM0153 | Duo (2015) | Violin, Cello, 16′ |
OM0152 | Impromptu (2001/15) | Solo Viola, 7′ |
OM0151 | We Are God’s Children (2014) | Mezzo-Soprano, String Quartet, 9′ |
OM0143 | Better Gods (2015) | An Opera, 60′ |
OM0142 | Mothersongs (2014) | Mezzo-Soprano, String Quartet, 9′ |
OM0141 | How Bright the Darkness, a winter solstice Carol (2014) | SSA, Solo Baritone, Chamber Ens. 6′ |
OM0140 | The Pillar – excerpts (2014) | An Opera – Six Voices, Seven Instruments, 35′ |
OM0139 | Ontogeny (2004) | Bassoon, Horn, Piano Quartet, 16′ |
OM0138 | Sonnet CXXX (1993) | Soprano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, 10′ |
OM0137 | Prayer (1924/2005) | Solo Cello, String Orchestra, 4′ |
OM0136 | Mélange à trois (2014) | Violin, Cello, Percussion, 30′ |
OM0135 | Suspense (2013) | Eight Cellos, Percussion, 11′ |
OM0124 | Rumi: Quatrains of Love (2012) | Soprano, Cello, Piano, 12′ |
OM0133 | Angel Heart (2011) | Narrator, Five Cellos, 21′ |
OM0128 | Arpeggione Sonata (1824/2011) | Cello Solo, Full Orchestra, 24′ |
OM0127 | The Jolly Jello Man Song (1995) | Three Voices in Round, ‘ |
OM0126 | Five Bagatelles (2010) | Solo Piano, 8′ |
OM0125 | Sarabande (2009) | Solo Cello, 7′ |
OM0124 | Max’s Moon (2007/9) | Solo Cello, String Orchestra, 10′ |
OM0123 | 75th Fanfare (2008) | Orchestra, 4′ |
OM0122 | Où allons-nous? (2008) | Solo Violin, Chamber Orchestra, 15′ |
OM0121 | Après Moi, le Déluge (2006) | Solo Cello, SATB Choir a capella, 26′ |
OM0120 | Odas de Todo el Mundo (2006) | Soprano, Cello, Piano, 8′ |
OM0118 | I am a Fish (2005) | Soprano, String Quartet, 15′ |
OM0116 | Roumanian Folk Dances (1915/2005) | Four Cellos, 7′ |
OM0115 | The Impressionists (2005) | Three Violas, 10′ |
OM0114 | After the Wave (2005) | Orchestra, 17′ |
OM0113 | Orpheus on Sappho’s Shore (2002/4) | Soprano, Tenor, Chamber Orchestra, 45′ |
OM0112 | Two Score (2004) | Solo Cello, 5′ |
OM0111 | Impromptu (2001) | Solo Cello, 7′ |
OM0110 | Into the Twilight (2001) | SATB Choir, 5′ |
OM0109 | Ten Images (2001) | Clarinet, Cello, 10′ |
OM0108 | Reluctance (2000) | Soprano, Oboe, Bassoon, 7′ |
OM0107 | String Trio (pueraria lobata) (2000) | Violin, Viola, Cello, 18′ |
OM0106 | Epithalamion (1998) | Oboe, Bassoon, 7′ |
OM0105 | Epithalamion (1998) | Soprano, Cello, 7′ |
OM0104 | Wedding Processional (1997) | String Quartet, 5′ |
OM0103 | Song for Women’s Chorus (1995) | SSAA Choir, 6′ |
OM0102 | Violad (1991) | Two Violas, 5′ |
OM0101 | She Weeps Over Rahoon (1991) | Two Voices, 3′ |
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