Karl Wolff (musician)

Karl Wolff (musician)

Karl A. Wolff (born 7 July 1951) is a composer and classical guitarist born in Lima, Ohio, USA. Wolff is also the founder of Clear Note, a sheet music publisher and recording label.

He has performed throughout the US including concerts with the Cornell Orchestra, the Ithaca Opera Orchestra, the contemporary music ensemble Sati, pianist Dave Brubeck, violinist Ken Fung, flutist Laura Campbell, among others, and has lectured on guitar related music theory for the advancement of technique, improvisation and composing.

Wolff has taught guitar for Cornell University, Wells College, Empire State College, and several conservatories in New York State. His recordings Baroque Music for Guitar and Classical Music for Guitar feature transcriptions of noted works by the best known composers of both periods. Classical Guitar Magazine writes: ...enchanting and charming salon music, - imaginative, interesting and pleasurable... featuring skilful arrangements by Karl Wolff... he shows himself to be both an accomplished performer and interpretor..."

As a publisher Wolff has focused on establishing a catalog of new works by award winning contemporary composers who write for concert guitar in solo, ensemble and orchestral settings. Published works and recordings by Apostolos Paraskevas, Stephen Robinson, Vuk Kulenovic and Lukas Foss feature guitar as a principal solo instrument. His duet Maria Full of Grace, coupled with the first Etude by Heitor Villa-Lobos mirrors the compositional relationship between Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude No.1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier and Ave Maria by Charles-François Gounod.


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