Biography

Biographical Highlights

  • Eve Wolf is Founder (2001) and Executive Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) www.romanticcentury.org

  • Ms. Wolf has written scripts and performed in more than twenty-five of ERC’s forty-plus original productions.

  • Since the onset of the pandemic and under Ms. Wolf’s leadership, ERC has launched a Radio Drama Division – including two productions that star Vanessa Redgrave, recorded in London. A new production with Vanessa Redgrave and Stephen Fry is currently being produced (January 2022).

  • Four productions based on her scripts have received New York Times Critic’s Picks.

  • Ms. Wolf has been cited as “an absolute star on the piano, emitting brilliant light.” The Times praised her playing as “rapturous.”

  • She has served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, has lectured and been a professional mentor at The Juilliard School, and currently teaches at Columbia University Teachers College.

  • Ms. Wolf has taught her seminar Confronting Memory: Memory Techniques for Musicians in the United States and abroad.

  • She maintains a private piano studio on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Long Biography

Eve Wolf has had an eclectic career as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, teacher, and playwright. Since 2001 she has devoted much of her energy to the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC), which she founded with the mission of creating an innovative and dramatic concert format in which the ideas and emotions revealed in memoirs, letters, diaries, and literature are interwoven with music, fully staged drama, and multimedia elements, thus bringing to life the sensations and passions of bygone eras. Since ERC’s inception, Ms. Wolf has written scripts for more than twenty-five of its theatrical concerts and has performed in most of the ensemble’s forty-plus original productions. 

Since the onset of the pandemic, ERC, under Eve Wolf’s leadership, has developed a Radio Drama Division. Its first two productions are Akhmatova: The Heart Is Not Made of Stone, written by Eve Wolf, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Paul Hilton, recorded in London during the lockdown; and Real Writing, by Maureen Lawrence, with musical direction by Eve Wolf, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Daisy Bevan. Currently (January 2022) in production is Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, by Eve Wolf, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Stephen Fry. Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon, by Eve Wolf, will be recorded in Paris in February 2022 and will star Thibeault de Montalembert (star of Call My Agent) in the role of Jules Verne.

Live theater highlights include Ms. Wolf’s scripts for ERC’s August 2017 production of Van Gogh’s Ear (Pershing Square Signature Theater), which was hailed by Ben Brantley in the New York Times for its “uncanny beauty and emotionalism” and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick; Maestro, (The Duke on 42nd Street, 2019), about the famed conductor Arturo Toscanini; Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined (The Duke on 42nd Street, 2019); Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart (Pershing Square Signature Theater, 2018), cited as a “compelling play with music” (New York Times) and “a completely unforgettable theatrical concert” (Theatermania); Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Pershing Square Signature Theater, 2018); The Dreyfus Affair (BAM-Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2017); and Anna Akhmatova: The Heart Is Not Made of Stone (BAM, 2016), also chosen as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Wolf also performed as pianist in Akhmatova, which the Times praised as “Engrossing…gorgeous…” with “rapturous accounts of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.” Another critic called Ms. Wolf “an absolute star on the piano, emitting brilliant light” (Stagebuddy), in ERC’s June 2015 production of The Sorrows of Young Werther at Symphony Space in New York. Her script of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon (BAM, 2015) was also chosen as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and described as “a dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration” that “will send you into the stratosphere.” Other highlights include Peggy Guggenheim Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (Florence Gould Hall, 2007); and Fanny Mendelssohn: Out of her Brother’s Shadow, commissioned by the Jewish Museum of New York. 

In 2009, Ms. Wolf performed before a sold-out audience at the Sale Apollinee of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in the Italian production of her script, Toscanini: Nel mio cuore troppo di assoluto. During the 2010-11 season, Ms. Wolf was the featured soloist in the theatrical concert Beethoven Love Elegies, for which she wrote the script. She also wrote the scripts for Jekyll & Hyde (2013), in which she was a featured soloist. Ms. Wolf has appeared in Europe and the United States as a chamber musician and soloist. 

Ms. Wolf received a BA in Art History from Columbia University and an MA in Piano Performance from New York University. She has served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, has lectured and been a professional mentor at The Juilliard School, and currently teaches at Columbia University Teachers College. Her main teacher and mentor is Seymour Bernstein, whose life and work is the subject of a critically acclaimed 2015 documentary by Ethan Hawke, Seymour: An Introduction. She also studied with Richard Goode, Peter Serkin, and Paul Badura-Skoda. Wolf has taught her seminar “Confronting Memory: Memory Techniques for Musicians” in the United States and abroad. She maintains a private piano studio on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.