Described by the Chicago Tribune as “a musician of quicksilver brilliance,” AARON WOLFF is a New York City-based cellist active in solo, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary capacities. Aaron gave his Carnegie Hall debut in Weill Recital Hall as the winner of the 2023 Leo B.Ruiz Memorial recital. Other recent performances include Debussy’s Cello Sonata on CNN’s Quest Means Business, Marc Migo’s La Dona d’Aigua with the Juilliard Orchestra, as well as collaboration with eighth blackbird, the Argus Quartet, and composer Anna Heflin, whose forthcoming monodrama The Incomplete Cosmicomics will feature Aaron as the lone performer.

Aaron has spent summers at Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program, Lucerne Festival Academy and Bang on a Can. In 2017, he was a fellow at the inaugural eighth blackbird creative lab. Aaron has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Bargemusic, The City Reliquary, MASS MoCA, Nasher Sculpture Center and The Cleveland Art Museum as well as traditional venues like Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall and Symphony Center Chicago. He 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 BroadCity and covered New York’s new music scene for the online journal I Care If You Listen. Aaron holds a BA in comparative literature from Oberlin College, and an MM & Artist Diploma from Juilliard, where his primary mentors were Joel Krosnick, Tim Eddy and Fred Sherry. He is now pursuing a DMA at CUNY’s Graduate Center with violinist Mark Steinberg.