TEDX Tel Aviv: Orit Wolf, March 2018.
Wolf’s work has awarded her many international prizes, including The Richmond Competition in Boston, BBC Radio 3 Young Artist Forum, New York’s East & West Artists International, Royal Academy Concerto Competition, the Kahn Award for the Arts, Lilian Davies Beethoven Prize, Kobler Award, Leverhulme and Craxton Trusts, Hattori Foundation Award (UK), American-Israel Cultural Foundation Awards, and the Israeli Council for Culture and Arts Award for best contemporary music solo performance.
Wolf has received the “Artist in Campus” nomination by the Technion for the 2022-2023 year, where she is also lecturing. In 2019, she received the Tel Aviv Municipality 2019 Rosenblum Prize for her outstanding musical achievements and interdisciplinary work in the arts. 2008 she received the prestigious ARAM award from the Royal Academy of Music. In 2010, Wolf was named one of “The Hundred Influential People of the Year” by THE MARKER Magazine (Israel’s leading economic newspaper).
Season at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Orit Wolf’s classes at the Tel Aviv University School for the Arts were some of the most popular among students from many different faculties. While teaching in her twenties, she developed her successful concert lecture series that has engaged thousands of attendees at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, the Haifa Museum, the Jerusalem Theater, and The Ralli Museum in Caesarea, among others. Each event hosts renowned guest performers from Israel and abroad and brings together different styles of music and various artistic disciplines, including poets, dancers, actors and painters. Her concert series’ includes thousands of subscribers nowadays.
Wolf’s ability to create a fusion between classical music and other styles, musical ‘mashups’ of the compositions of Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert together with contemporary popular music brings a new experience for a younger audience to appreciate the genius of the Master composers. She thus fulfils her vision to bring Classical music into new realms for larger audiences.
Wolf has been a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London and specializes in Leadership for Stage Performers. She also teaches Business Leadership at the Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, and at the Lahav Center for Management at the Tel Aviv University. She is considered one of the top lecturers focusing on Innovation and Creative Thinking in the music and business arenas. She is often invited to lecture, perform, and give Master Classes at acclaimed universities and organizations worldwide and serves as a judge advocate in various competitions. In her vision to guide artists, leaders, and businesses to leave a mark on their industry, Wolf was invited to give a TED talk on the interdisciplinary world of Leadership, Art and Innovation, “Play the Keynote of Your Life.” Her widely acclaimed podcasts are available on Apple, Google, and Spotify. www.oritwolf.com
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