Joelle Wallach

Joelle Wallach
Joelle Wallach makes her home in the Bronx where she was born, and writes music that speaks to the soul. Some of her music, like her String Quartet #2, explores intimate personal landscapes. Other works - like Toward a Time of Renewal, commissioned by the New York Choral Society or From the Forest of Chimneys written for the New York Philharmonic Ensembles - speak to larger human concerns, historical wrongs and hopes for the future. Her involvement in poetry and dance has generated collaborations with choreographers - like her ballet Glancing Below - and songs and choral works in English, Spanish and Hebrew in collaboration with many poets. Enthusiastic and humorous, Wallach is a popular professor and public speaker. At the New York Philharmonic she brings audiences fresh – and frequently funny - insights into familiar works and opens doors to modern ones and to those less frequently heard.

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