Hugh wolff conductor biography of william

Foreign Service, Hugh Wolff spent his primary-school years in London. He received his higher education at Harvard and at Peabody Conservatory. Between Harvard and Peabody, he spent a year in Paris where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and conducting with Charles Bruck.

At Peabody, he studied piano with Leon Fleisher.

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Wolff began his career in 1979 assisting Rostropovich at the National Symphony Orchestra. In June 1985, he was the first winner of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award. Wolff served as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic from 1981-1986, and then the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1993.

From 1988–1992, Wolff was Principal Conductor of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and then served as its Music Director from 1992–2000