Performer
“The absolute best part about performing is the sharing that happens between fellow musicians, the audience, and dear friends. I can’t think of anything more sublime.” - Patti Wolf
“...an effervescent reading full of clarity and poise. Wolf unfurled pearly notes that were pleasantly dry and buoyant...Wolf played with great finesse and lyrical splendor, even in the more pungent Stravinskian moments.”
Since being chosen at age nineteen as the youngest competitor of the 1985 Van Cliburn Competition, Patti Wolf has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has collaborated in recital with many of the world’s most distinguished musical artists, such as cellist Lynn Harrell, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Ilya Kaler, concertmasters Glenn Dicterow, Andrés Cárdenes, David Halen and Nina Bodnar, soprano Erin Wall, Chicago Symphony principal horn Dale Clevenger, and renowned German horn soloist and recording artist Hermann Baumann.
My debut concert in March 2018 with the entire The University of Texas at Austin Collaborative Piano Studio faculty at Butler School of Music! What a thrill to play a different piece with each faculty member; Colette Valentine, Rick Rowley, Alex Maynegre, Miguel Campinho. The encore was one of the more memorable moments when we played a Brahms Hungarian Dance with the bottom voice switching between everyone while I stayed on the top voice.
Marilyn De Oliveira, me, and other 50 people, socially distanced at Laurel Heights United Methodist Church in San Antonio back in 2020.
Lynn Harrell & Patti Wolf, Woodlands Salon Series, 2009
In New York, Patti has performed with pianist Peter Frankl, the Audubon Quartet, the Chautauqua Wind Quintet, the Chautauqua String Quartet.
As a soloist, Patti Wolf has appeared with the Saint Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Saint Louis Philharmonic, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and has performed under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Raymond Leppard, and many others.
Recently, Ms. Wolf was a guest artist with the Olmos Ensemble in San Antonio and is featured on their first CD, Olmos Live, performing the John Harbison trio for piano, violin, and horn.