Orit Wolf

Education

Started at the age of six, Orit Wolf was studying with Hanna Shalgi. At the age of 16 she graduated from Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts and studied with Prof. Alexander Volkov, she began her academic studies at the Tel Aviv University under the direction of Arie Vardi. She also studied music composition and improvisation with Andre Hajdu while attending masterclasses given by Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Menachem Pressler, Gyorge Shebok, Gilbert Kalish and Peter Serkin.

In 1991, Wolf attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and then received a full Dean's scholarship to Boston University. She graduated from Boston University Summa Cum Laude in piano performance under Prof. Benjamin Pasternack and Composer Lukas Foss.

Wolf received a post-graduate degree (DipRAM) and her Masters (M.Mus) from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998 under the direction of Christopher Elton. She was also studying with Maria Curcio.

In 2007, Wolf earned a Ph.D under the President Scholaships from Bar-Ilan University in Musicology. Her thesis title was "Beethoven as Heard by the Romantics: A Study of Romantic Style Cadenzas Composed to Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto".

A link to her Ph.D: http://www.oritwolf.com/music/?page_id=439

Performances

At the age of 11, she was invited to perform in Germany and Belgium on behalf of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. At the age of 14, she recorded for "Kol Ha-Musica", the Israeli Classical Radio Music Station ( IBO), on various performances which includes her own compositions.

Wolf has performed as a soloist and with various orchestras including the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Rishon LeZion Symphony, Braslaw Philharmonic, Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra. She has played at the Tanglewood Music Festival and Israel Festival (Israel), East West Festival ( Holland) and the Upper Galille Music Festival. She has played in prestigious concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall, St. Matrin Hall (London), Symphony Hall ( Boston), The Concertgebouw ( Amsterdam) and the Alte Oper ( Frankfurt).

Wolf has collaborated with numerous international artists and ensembles such as St. Lawerence Quartet, Aviv Quartet, Joanna McGreggor, Nobuko Imai, Simca Heled, Erez Ofer, Sergei Krylov, Hagai Shaham, Hillel Zori and Christine Brewer. She records regularly for many radio stations including the BBC, CBS, CBC, IBO, WGBH, NRK and GLR.

In 2007 Wolf released a CD of recordings titled Impulse. http://www.oritwolf.com/music/?page_id=136

Since 2007 Wolf conducts her own Concert Lecture Series. She has founded over 8 series' with thousands of subsribers. Her home base is the Tel Aviv Museum of Art where she holds two main concert series named: On a Personal Note. She hosts and performs live with acclaimed international guest artists as well as conversing with them freely on stage. She performs over 90 conerts a year.

For concert lectures see: http://www.oritwolf.com/music/?page_id=120

Wolf is also a business consultant in the area of innovative thinking and creative marketing. in 2010 The Marker Magazine has chosen her as one of the hundred most influential people of the year. She is consider one of the top guest lectures on the area of Music, Leadrship and Creativity.

http://oritwolf.com/business/en/?page_id=23

Compositions

Media Links

Orit Wolf speaks with Jessica Steinberg about her new concert series for English speakers:

“The Concert Pianist Who Converse with her Audience”. Times of Israel. July, 2017.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-concert-pianist-who-converses-with-her-audience/

Orit Wolf speaks with Yossi Schifman on her new season at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

“Coming from Love”. Habama. July, 2018.

http://www.habama.co.il/Pages/Description.aspx?Subj=5&Area=1&ArticleId=28681

Orit Wolf is conversing with Lirone Glikman on Failure, Passion and Leadership. The Huffington Post, October 26, 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/failure-is-a-blessing-this-woman-can-show-you-how_us_5810b780e4b06e45c5c700c8

Orit Wolf is interviewed by Gal Appelroit on Bach and her Concert Lecture Series, hosting Pianist Joanna McGregor. April 1, 2016, Haaretz.

באך באווירה קלילה ובלתי פורמלית

Orit Wolf is interviewed by Smadat Tal on Music, Mind and Body.

Teaching Business Improvisation through the Power of Music. Bar Ilan University, 2013

http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=11169&pt=1&pid=6210&level=5&cPath=11169

The Poet of the Piano, JPOST, March 2011

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/The-poet-of-the-piano

Renaissance Woman, JPOST, November, 2016

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/Renaissance-woman

Orit Wolf on Globes ( Israeli Financial Newspaper, July, 2014)

http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000951293

On a personal Note with Orit Wolf for IWOMAN, October, 2012

http://www.iwomen.co.il/item.asp?aid=95814

The Improviser, JPOST, November, 2011

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/The-Improviser

Orit Wolf and Eyal Shani, MAKO, 2011

http://www.mako.co.il/music-Magazine/articles/Article-260fb90d5d0e331006.htm

Orit Wolf speaks to Noam Ben Zeev on her interdiscplinary concert series. Haaretz, December, 2011

http://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/music/1.1580244

Orit Wolf’s interview to NRG, January, 2014

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/543/219.html

Orit Wolf on how to bring people into the realms of Classical Music. Mouse, May, 2010

http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,1021,209,49368,.aspx

The Pianist who successfully combines between Business and Music, Ma’ariv, 2014

http://www.maariv.co.il/news/new.aspx?pn6Vq=L&0r9VQ=GFLGM

The Music and Creativity by Orit Wolf, Ma Kedai, October, 2012

http://ma-kedai.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/blog-post_10.html

Failure Is A Blessing – This Woman Can Show You How To Shine Through It

Orit Wolf is conversing with Lirone Glikman on Failure, Passion and Leadership. The Huffington Post, October 26, 2016

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/failure-is-a-blessing-this-woman-can-show-you-how_us_5810b780e4b06e45c5c700c8

Teaching Business Improvisation through the Power of Music

Orit Wolf was on stage, alone at the piano, in front of an audience of hundreds. Only 12-years-old, her performance was being broadcast over the Voice of Israel’s classical music radio station to thousands more. And then she froze. “I had a complete blackout,” she says. “I couldn’t remember what I was playing, I couldn’t remember the notes.” There was only one thing to do. “I started to improvise,” confides the 38-year-old concert pianist from Jaffa who is a graduate of BIU’s prestigious Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence program.

The poet of the piano

This week, as part of the Thursdays Mornings With Orit Wolf: The Man Behind The Sounds series, the Tel Aviv Museum will host Wolf and dancer Ornili Azulay in an exploration of the life and work of Frederic Chopin. Held at the Recanati Hall, Wolf will play the piano and speak of Chopin’s experiences, stories and contribution to society. Though he lived a short life (he died at the age of 39), Chopin’s body of work is formidable.

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/The-poet-of-the-piano

Renaissance woman

Nature has lavishly endowed Orit Wolf, 32. This stunningly beautiful virtuoso pianist, with a number of discs under her belt, is also a composer, a classical music educator, a poet – and a management consultant for many local companies. Whatever she knows, Wolf shares generously with the world. Her new 10-minute piece, Light, White and Purple, will be premiered by the Rishon Lezion Symphony Orchestra this week.

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Music/Renaissance-woman

The Improviser

Orit Wolf – pianist, composer, improviser, lecturer and, above all, one of most creative, intriguing and unpredictable music personalities on the local classical stage – will open her 10-concert series with the Aperitif for Piano Solo evening on Thursday, November 17. Wolf spoke to me about her love of music and her urge to share it with others.

http://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/The-Improviser

1. Turning Failure into Opportunity/ Orit Wolf

Developing Leaders/ Issue 16, 2014

“Winning Failure”

http://www.oritwolf.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Winning-Failures-Turning-Error-into-Opportunity.pdf

2. The Three Dilemmas of the Innovation Manager/ Orit Wolf

The Marker Magazine, 10.11.11

http://www.themarker.com/smb/1.1562873

3. Winning Customer Experience: How to generate creativity in your organization/ Interview with Orit Wolf

The Marker Magazine, 1.3.10

http://www.themarker.com/career/1.574299

4. Thinking out of the Box: New Realms for the new marketers/ Orit Wolf

The Marker Magazine, 15.3.12

http://www.themarker.com/advertising/1.1664285

5. Talent Management: “Why wouldn’t they come home” / Orit Wolf

The Marker Magazine, 20.5.10

http://www.themarker.com/career/1.573137

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Guest Lectures

Inspiring guest lectures by Dr. Orit Wolf on the area of Leadership, Innovation and the Power of Music in changing Paradigms.

Wolf speaks, plays, improvise and give live examples, while engaging the audience in every aspect of her performance.

The Art of Disruption

Dr. Orit Wolf

On Music, Innovation and Leadership

How can concert pianists function as a model of a new thinking platform for leadership? What can music making reveal and hint to the business world? How does a musician improvise on stage when disruptions and mistakes occur? Is there a way to train us as managers and leaders to do the same? On Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship Orit Wolf speaks in a fascinating guest lecture next to the piano at the Marketing Society of Britain – Annual event 2014, held at the Royal Opera Hall in Covent Garden, London.

The Power of Passion

Dr. Orit Wolf

How to leave a Personal Mark – The Art of Persuasion

This unique guest lecture is all about Passion and Motivation; The Passion to succeed, the Passion to lead, the Passion to innovate. Are people born with this attribute of passion, or do they rather gain it by education?

How will we recognize people with Passion and high motivation and how is it connected to leadership? Nowadays, we are eager to examine the “genetic code” of those who do not compromise so easily, the ones who have the spark of life, despite all obstacles. Could we find the “formula” for Passion at work, this love for risk taking, and learn its components? How do we start to teach passion and insert it into organizations? All this in a revealing lecture, accompanied with rare examples of films with the most powerful artists, lecturers, leaders and renowned figures that had the courage to break the patterns.

1. Music, Leadership and Innovation

Dr. Orit Wolf

This unique lecture is based on Orit Wolf’s unconventional combination of being international concert pianist, senior lecturer and business woman. It is a special opportunity to gain a look into the musical art world (by listening to Wolf’s live performances) that serves as a parable to a competitive business world – A world which exists in an era of constant change. The main goal of this meeting is to experience alternative approaches in developing creative thinking and interdisciplinary abilities in order to enrich problem solving skills.

Music can be a great metaphor to smart business making- Business that puts the process in similar importance to the end result; Business that puts experimentation and quest in its highest priority; Business that gives a place for risk and failure, not only for safe success. Business that looks for colorful interpretations among its employees and strives for constant development.

There is a lot one can learn about silent leadership from music making and conductors’ work. In music you often work in teams- duos, trios, quartets, as well as larger groups as orchestras. Players must communicate between them on stage without having the basic and familiar verbal quality. Everything must be done by different means. How can we take these insights into the leadership world and what does a performer share with a top manager on stage? This we shall practice and experience in the interactive guest lecture alongside with live examples played by Orit Wolf.

2. The Power of Passion

Dr. Orit Wolf

This unique guest lecture is all about Passion and Motivation; The Passion to succeed, the Passion to lead, the Passion to innovate. Are people born with this attribute of passion, or do they rather gain it by education?

How will we recognize people with Passion and high motivation and how is it connected to leadership? Nowadays, we are eager to examine the “genetic code” of those who do not compromise so easily, the ones who have the spark of life, despite all obstacles. Could we find the “formula” for Passion at work, this love for risk taking, and learn its components? How do we start to teach passion and insert them into organizations? All this in a revealing lecture, accompanied with rare examples of films with the most powerful artists, lecturers, leaders and renowned figures that had the courage to break the patterns.

The lecture will be accompanied by a grand piano and live performance of Orit Wolf.

3. Master Class in Customer’s Experience

Dr. Orit Wolf

We all like our customers to be happy. We all eager to have them back and tell their special experience to others. Who are these people and organizations who do it quite differently? How do they manage to leave their stamp behind? Where do they gather their inspiration from? It has been proved that only those organizations that learned to create an internal customer service, to their very own employees, where those who knew how to transform this passion to their customers. The main assumption was that they looked for their people’s dreams, rather than needs. In this unique lecture we shall reveal some of the mind set and creative steps of those businesses who succeeded to leave the “extra effect” by being innovative, primary and surprising.

4. Impulse, Daring and Creativity

Dr. Orit Wolf

This lecture exposes a little of the impulse and the creativity that are hidden within us and contemplates how we can apply those abilities during our day-to-day work hours.

This lecture is experiential and includes active attempts of breaking away from conventional thinking patterns and paradigms.

“It is not because of the hardships that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that there are hardships” (Seneka, the philosopher)

Every person has creative powers and originality with which he is born, but the difference between people is dependent upon the level of their awareness of those powers. If we delve deeper into this issue, we will find that creativity is closely connected to impulse. Contrary to common belief that creative people are few and far between, we believe that all people are creative through their natural impulses.

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5. Reactive and Proactive Thinking in the Third Millenium

Dr. Orit Wolf

In this era, in which the keyword is innovation, we cannot be satisfied with simply attaining information. We also need to attain built-in tools in order to develop our thinking so that we can create, not only respond.

What stops us from creating something new? How can we move from a “passive” mode of thinking to an active mode of thinking? How can we develop broad range thinking? Is thinking random or methodical?

These challenges will guide us in this lecture, which will be accompanied by numerous examples and group practice.

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