My Bio

Brady Wolff (b. 2002) is a Kansas City-based composer and performer who writes music for concert band, orchestra, chamber ensembles, works with theatrical components, and electroacoustic music. Brady’s music takes direct inspiration from natural landscapes, strange phenomena, and modern world events. Brady has won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his String Quartet (2020), 2nd prize in the Missouri Composer’s Project competition, is a finalist in the UMKC Chamber Music Competition, and earned a Tribeca New Music Emerging Composer Award for his woodwind quintet. Brady has attended the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, has been accepted into Atlantic Music Festival, Zodiac Summer Music Festival, the Emerging Composer’s Intensive, and St. Mary’s Composition Intensive.

Brady’s music is highly influenced by his percussion experience. His works are highly rhythmic, often experimenting with odd time signatures and unusual rhythms, and contemporary methods of organizing time. His recent work, Intuition for Saxophone Quartet and Piano, explores how to alter the inflection of a phrase by using non-dyadic time signatures. The work also organizes sound into seconds instead of tempo in order to create a unique metric world.

Brady is currently studying at the University of Missouri-Kansas City to earn his B.M. in music composition and his B.M. in music theory. He has studied with Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Yotam Haber, Paul Rudy, Jorge Variego, and Michael Miller. At UMKC, Brady will continue his studies by using electronic media to experiment with various microtonal tuning systems.