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Without Music life would be a mistake. (F. Nietzsche)
Motje Wolf was born in Germany and has been playing the violin since the age of four. She has played and performed as soloist as well as with various orchestras and string quartets. Apart from her first teacher Reinhard Knoll, her most influential teachers have been Hendrik Hochschild (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig), Erika Ozeki (Düsseldorf) and Koji Toyoda, with whom she studied in a master class. Motje has won first and second prices at regional competitions and completed a solo tour at the East coast of Germany in 2004. She has always been interested in contemporary music and performs regularly as guest musician with the ensemble for intuitive music Phase 3 (Leipzig) and as member of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble of De Montfort University Leicester.
As part of her M.A. degree in musicology at University of Leipzig she studied choir and ensemble conducting with the Director of Music of University of Leipzig Wolfgang Unger, composition with Prof. Bernd Franke and singing with Ursula Schönhals. She still continues her voice studies in Leipzig with Stephanie Kümpel.
Motje works on a regular basis with youth choirs all over Germany and enjoys especially working with inexperienced singers. In Leipzig (Germany) she conducted the Recorder Ensemble of St. Thomas Church (2005-2008), including 6 to 10 concerts per year, as well as the Lukas Chor Leipzig (2006-2008). Since 2008 she has been studying for a PhD in electroacoustic music studies at De Montfort University Leicester.
Motje currently holds a Choral Scholarship at Leicester Cathedral.

Collaborations

Andrew Hill and Motje Wolf: Piece for Organ and Fixed Media Sound
to be performed by Simon Headley, Assistant Organist of Leicester Cathedral, at St. Andrew's Church Leicester
2009-2010

Lamentations by John Young.
2009 electroacoustic composition
voice and organ.

Atonement - A site-specific sonic installation at Leicester Cathedral; by Michael E. Gatt
15/11/09, 7-9 pm, Leicester Cathedral
voice and organ.

Concerts

upcoming

27/01/10
LEAST Concert: Andrew Hill and Motje Wolf: Piece for Organ and Fixed Media Sound.
St. Andrew's Church, Leicester, UK.
LEAST is a collection of Leicester based composers passionate about electroacoustic music, striving to present this music to a wider public in interesting venues outside of the ivory tower.

10-11/04/10
Weekend residency in Canterbury Cathedral with Leicester Church Music Consort

29/07/10
Concert conducting choir and orchestra of Deutsche SchülerAkademie Torgelow.
Torgelow, Germany.

2010 (Highlights)

20/01/10 7:00 pm
Dirty Electronics Ensemble and STEIM
Two solo sets by dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) and Daniel Schorno exploring unique interfaces and approaches to live performance that have been developed at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam). The Dirty Electronics Ensemble premier dj sniff's Knowing when and what, and Byunjun Kwon's inter-FACE.
PACE, studio 1, De Montfort University Leicester

2009 (Highlights)

12/12/09 5:00
Concert: Messiah with the UK-Japan Choir
St John's Wood Church, London

08/11/09 4:00
Concert with the Choir of Leicester Cathedral
Gabriel Faure, Requiem

02/09/09
Concert: Music from Germany (and German speaking countries), St. Andrew's Church Leicester.
Violin: J.S. Bach - Concerto for two violins, d minor, L.v.Beethoven - Sonata No 4, J. Brahms - Scherzo from the FAE Sonata
Also: Conducting St. Andrew's Choir with German choral music from various composers.
Programme Notes

22-23/08/09
Weekend residency in Westminster Abbey (London) with Leicester Church Music Consort
Programme included Wood, Hail gladdending light; Sumsion in F; Harwood, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Barstow, Let all mortal flesh be silent; and other pieces.

12/07/09
Civic Service, Leicester Cathedral: Soloist (Alto) in "Rejoyce in the Lord Alway" by H. Purcell

20/05/09
Concert with the Dirty Electronics Ensemble and students from Anglia-Ruskin University, Cambridge, at De Montfort University Leicester
Amplified violin in: Situation 3, a group performance after a graphic score by Annelie Nederberg ; Crackle box in: Improvisation by Steve Martin

13/05/09
Concert with the Dirty Electronics Ensemble, at Anglia-Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Voice in: Improvisations for 2 voices with Conexus System (Max/MSP Patch) by Jeff Mettlewsky ; Amplified violin in: Situation 3, a group performance after a graphic score by Annelie Nederberg ; Crackle box in: Improvisation by Steve Martin

28/01/09
Concert of the Choir of Leicester Cathedral at St. Mary's Humberstone, Leicester.