Juliet Wolff started studying towards her Bachelor of Music Degree with Prof. Darrett Adkins at The Juilliard School in New York, supported through the Helen P Houle Scholarship, the George H Gangwere Scholarship and the M&E Cohen Scholarship. She is currently continuing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, in the class of Prof. Claudio Bohórquez. From October 2021 Juliet is recipient of the Deutschland Stipendium at the HfM Hanns Eisler. She has been invited to participate in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Prof. Frans Helmerson, Prof. Gary Hoffman, Prof. Wen-Sinn Yang, Prof. Raphael Wallfish, Prof. Colin Carr, Prof. Julian Arp and Prof. Lukas Hagen, and has participated in several music festivals such as the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Zermatt Festival & Academy, and the Stift International Music Festival in the Netherlands, where she performed and collaborated together with well-known musicians, such as Renaud Capuçon, Ton Koopman, Pēteris Vasks, Avi Avital, Gary Hoffman, Emma Johnson, John Lenehan, Jeremy Menuhin, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović. Juliet regularly performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician and has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, King's Place, The Menuhin Hall and St Martin in the Fields in the UK, the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Alice Tully Hall in New York, and the Joseph Joachim Saal in Berlin. Following Juliet’s debut at Wigmore Hall, acclaimed music-critic Ateş Orga wrote: “Juliet Wolff‘s Debussy Sonata had spine-tingling passages, the notes arresting and vocal. Her command and overview of the piece, her musicality and accomplishment, was not in doubt.”Most recently Juliet enjoyed recording the world-premiere of “Monologue for Solo Vocalizing Cellist” composed and dedicated to her by Katie Jenkins, a multi award winning Welsh composer currently studying with Matthias Pintscher and Melinda Wagner at The Juilliard School in New York. As the title suggests, the piece involves the performer to sing a substantial vocal part while simultaneously playing virtuosic lines on the cello.At the start of 2020 Juliet successfully demonstrated her talent at the International ESO Young Soloist Competition, where she was awarded both 1st prize and audience vote. In 2017 she was awarded the Jellinek Award at the Una Clark Young Artists Competition and in 2015 she was awarded the Marlow Young Musician of the Year prize.A committed chamber musician, Juliet is the cellist of the Mixis Quartet. Formed in 2019 at the UDK in Berlin, the Mixis Quartet has appeared in numerous concerts in Berlin and Germany. They receive coaching at the UDK by members of the Artemis Quartet and have recently had a successful masterclass with Lukas Hagen, who selected the Quartet to perform in the final concert. Juliet received her first cello lessons at the age of five with Erik Richter at the Feuermann Conservatory of the Kronberg Academy. Only ten years old, she was accepted into Prof. Gunda Altmann’s class at the specialist music-school Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, and from 2012 Juliet studied with Prof. Geneviève Tullières - Sommer at the Junior Guildhall School for Music and Drama in London. In 2015, Juliet joined the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School and studied there with Prof. Thomas Carroll, supported by a generous scholarship from the Music and Dance Scheme.

ENGLISH

Juliet Wolff captivates audiences worldwide with her natural musicality, emotional depth, and compelling stage presence. Her performances have been described as “spine-tingling,” with “notes arresting and vocal” (Ateş Orga, ClassicalSource), reflecting a rare ability to unite technical brilliance with profound expressive intensity.

She began playing the cello at the age of five and quickly attracted attention by winning first prizes at national competitions, including Jugend musiziert, marking the beginning of an exceptional artistic path.

Today, Juliet is an internationally sought-after soloist and chamber musician, performing at major venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Wigmore Hall, Musikverein Vienna, and Musiikkitalo Helsinki. She is regularly invited to leading festivals including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Stift Festival, Gower Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival, and Bebersee Festival, and appeared as a Rising Talent in Daniel Hope’s Hope@9pm concert series.

As a concerto soloist, Juliet has performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra during the VII International Paulo Cello Competition and won the Virtuoso & Belcanto Concerto Competition in 2023, which will result in her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the Berliner Philharmonie. Her concerto repertoire spans major works of the Romantic and 20th-century canon, including concertos by Elgar, Dvořák, Shostakovich, Barber, Saint-Saëns, and Haydn, which she interprets with a distinctive combination of lyricism, structural clarity, and emotional depth.

A dedicated chamber musician, Juliet has performed together with distinguished artists including Alexandra Conunova, Sophia Jaffé, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Pablo Barrágan, Emma Johnson, Gary Hoffman, Julian Steckel and Alban Gerhardt. She stepped in as cellist of the Cuore Piano Trio, performing at the Musikverein Vienna and making the trio’s Wigmore Hall debut in January 2026. Since the 2024/25 season, she has been a scholarship holder of Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz.

A central focus of her artistic vision lies in innovative programming. Her self-conceived project Voices Within, exploring the connection between cello and voice through works by outstanding female composers, received the #MusikerZukunft Award twice in a row from the Deutsche Orchester Stiftung. She works closely with contemporary composers, bringing new works to world premiere and shaping programs that unite artistic depth with creative imagination.

Juliet studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School before continuing her training at the Juilliard School in New York. She graduated with distinction from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin under Prof. Claudio Bohórquez as a scholarship recipient of Freunde Junger Musiker Berlin and completed her Master’s degree with distinction in July 2025.

With her powerful artistic identity, international experience, and distinctive presence, Juliet Wolff is emerging as one of the most compelling young cellists of her generation.

DEUTSCH

Juliet Wolff tritt regelmäßig international als Solistin und Kammermusikerin auf und bespielt renommierte Bühnen wie das Konzerthaus Berlin, den Wiener Musikverein und die Wigmore Hall. Sie wurde von Daniel Hope als Rising Talent zu einem Gastauftritt in seiner Konzertreihe Hope@9pm eingeladen und konzertiert regelmäßig bei internationalen Musikfestivals.

Als begeisterte Kammermusikerin ist Juliet seit der Saison 2024/25 Stipendiatin des Förderprogramms der Landesstiftung Villa Musica und wirkt in diesem Rahmen bei verschiedenen Kammermusikprojekten mit renommierten Musikern mit, darunter Auftritte mit Alexandra Conunova und Alban Gerhardt sowie eine Konzerttournee durch China. Von Mai 2025 bis Januar 2026 spielte sie zudem im Cuore Piano Trio, mit dem sie im Brahms-Saal des Wiener Musikvereins und in der Wigmore Hall konzertierte. 

Ihr selbst konzipiertes Konzertprogramm „Voices Within“, das sich der Verbindung von Cello und Gesang sowie der Erforschung weniger bekannter Werke von Komponistinnen widmet, wurde zum zweiten Mal in Folge durch das #MusikerZukunft-Stipendium der Deutschen Orchester-Stiftung ausgezeichnet. 

Zu ihren jüngsten Wettbewerbs-Erfolgen zählt das Semifinale beim VII. Internationalen Paulo-Cello-Wettbewerb, bei dem sie mit dem Lahti Symphonieorchester Elgars Cellokonzert spielte. Außerdem ist sie Gewinnerin des Virtuoso & Belcanto Concerto Wettbewerbs 2023, wodurch sie ihr Debüt als Solistin in der Berliner Philharmonie geben wird. Seit 2025 ist sie zudem Stipendiatin des PE-Förderprogramms.

Nach ihrem Abschluss an der Yehudi Menuhin School begann Juliet ihr Bachelorstudium an der Juilliard School in New York, das sie später bei Prof. Claudio Bohórquez an der HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin fortsetzte, wo sie sowohl den Bachelor als auch den Master mit Bestnote abschloss.