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==Life== Born in [[Philadelphia]], Wolfe has a twin brother and an older brother. As a teenager, she learned piano but she only began to study music seriously after taking a musicianship class at the University of Michigan, where she received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in music and theater as a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] in 1982. In her early twenties, Wolfe wrote music for an all-female theatre troupe. On a trip to New York, she became friends with composition students [[Michael Gordon (composer)|Michael Gordon]] and [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]], both of whom had recently attended the [[Yale School of Music]] and who encouraged her to apply. She went to Yale in 1984 and studied primarily with [[Martin Bresnick]], and she married Michael Gordon the same year. After receiving her [[Master of Music|M.M.]] in 1986, Wolfe, Gordon, and Lang founded the new music collective [[Bang on a Can]] in 1987.<ref name="NewYorker0916">{{cite journal|last1=Robin|first1=William|title=A MACARTHUR FOR THE COMPOSER JULIA WOLFE|journal=New Yorker|date=22 September 2016|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-macarthur-for-the-composer-julia-wolfe|access-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> Bang on a Can is now an organization with a concert series and tours, and a summer festival in the [[Berkshires]] for emerging composers and performers.<ref name="NewYorker0916" /> Wolfe, Gordon, and Lang founded Red Poppy Music in 1993 as a printed music publishing company. The three founded the record label [[Cantaloupe Music]] in 2001. Wolfe received a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Amsterdam in 1992. In 2012, Wolfe received a PhD in composition from [[Princeton University]]. She has been a professor of music composition at [[New York University]] in the [[Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development|Steinhardt School]] since 2009, prior to which she was an adjunct professor at the [[Manhattan School of Music]] for seven years. In 2015, Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work ''Anthracite Fields'', and in 2016 she was named a MacArthur Fellowship recipient.<ref name="NewYorker0916" /> In 2018, she was a recipient of an honorary degree from [[Drew University]] in New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.drew.edu/commencement/past-commencement-speakers-honorary-degree-recipients/|title=Drew University|website=Drew University|access-date=Feb 7, 2019}}</ref> Wolfe held the 2021β22 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref name="Carnegie Hall">{{cite web | title=The Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair | website=Carnegie Hall | url=https://www.carnegiehall.org/Events/Highlights/Debs-Composers-Chair | access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref> Wolfe and Gordon are married and have two children. They live in lower Manhattan.<ref name=NewYorker0916 />
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