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Randall Wolfe

Artist-in-Residence in Piano

Full-Time Faculty

College of Arts and Sciences: Music

Profile

Artist-in-Residence at the University of Dayton, Dr. Randall Wolfe teaches Studio Piano, Music in Theory and Practice and Music of Christmas. Dr. Wolfe is the conductor of the West Chester Chorale in northern Cincinnati, a service pianist for the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and a regular choral adjudicator for Music in the Parks at Kings Island.

Winner of three national piano competitions, he has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the United States and abroad, including concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall and Washington's Constitution Hall.

He served as music director and pianist for the Cincinnati Boychoir, giving over 1,000 performances in 23 states and four foreign countries, ensemble performances in seven additional countries and concerts by members serving in the Vienna Boys Choir in 24 additional countries. The mayor proclaimed "Randall Wolfe Day in Cincinnati" in honor of 20 years of service to the boychoir. During his tenure, Dr. Wolfe grew the boychoir into a three-tiered program, led a capital campaign to secure the organization's first permanent home, conducted the choir in symphony, television and radio performances and established a partner relationship with the Vienna Boys Choir in Austria.

Before coming to the University of Dayton, Dr. Wolfe taught at Sinclair Community College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Central State University, Northwest High School, Pleasant Run Middle School and Delhi Junior High School. He has taught applied studio piano and voice, choral ensembles, accompanying, advanced choral conducting, choral methods, choral literature and arranging, sight-singing and aural skills, music theory, music appreciation, music and art in the western world, class piano and voice class.

He received his D.M.A., M.M., and B.M., graduating "summa cum laude" with a double major in Piano Performance and Vocal Music Education, from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, with additional studies at the University of Michigan, Westminster Choir College, The Ohio State University, and the Actilingua Institute of Vienna, Austria.