Aaron Wolff (b. 1994) is a New York City-based cellist and performer active in solo, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary capacities. Recent performances include Schumann Quartets with Yellow Barn Artist Residencies, Marc Migo’s “La Dona d’Aigua” with the Juilliard Orchestra, and Debussy’s Cello Sonata on CNN’s Quest Means Business.
Aaron has also found creative outlets in acting – most notably in a lead role in the Coen brothers’ film A Serious Man – and in arranging and writing about music: he has provided string arrangements for Comedy Central’s Broad City and covered New York’s new music scene for the online journal I Care If You Listen.
As a high school student of Natasha Brofsky, Aaron won First Prize in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, and as a college student of Darrett Adkins was winner of the Oberlin Concerto Competition. Aaron was a finalist in both the 2021 Young Concert Artist International Auditions and 2021 Juilliard Concerto Competition, and was one of four American candidates at the 2021 Geneva International Cello Competition.
Equally at home in chamber music, he has collaborated with the Argus Quartet, A Far Cry, The Boston Trio and eighth blackbird, and has spent return summers at Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program, and Lucerne Festival Academy. He currently plays with numerous groups including Metropolis Ensemble, New York Classical Players, PinkNoise Ensemble, Contemporaneous, Argento New Music Project and Princeton Symphony.
He has performed in the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the City Reliquary, MASS MoCA, Nasher Sculpture Center and the Cleveland Art Museum as well as traditional venues like Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Symphony Center Chicago, Prague’s Rudolfinum, Vienna’s Musikverein, Köln’s Philharmonie, and KKL Luzern.
Aaron received a B.A. in comparative literature and B.M. in cello performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory. He then completed Master’s degree at Juilliard, where he was a Kovner Fellow under Joel Krosnick, and an Artist Diploma under Tim Eddy and Fred Sherry. He plays a Perry-Wilkinson cello, made in Dublin in 1791.