About

“A weird form of inherent melancholy” is what makes Freya Wolf’s music in a way coherent, even though it stretches from (post-)rock via romantic-inspired string music onto contemporary voice. Coming from a diverse musical background and feeding multiple interests such as literature, theatre or video games, she has accumulated a profound knowledge and understanding of musical aesthetics in a variety of different medias and art collaborations.

Bio

Born in 1994, Freya Wolf grew up close to Frankfurt am Main (DE), where she started studying classical piano from a young age. At the age of 14 she also started playing electric bass. Inspired by pop-punk music she found the band Who’s Johnny with her close friends in 2010. After exploring Funk music both as a group and individually, the band grew away from the genre to playing Progressive Post-Rock after a while. It was in fact through the band that Freya began writing music in the first place, being both the musical mastermind as well as the lyricist for the band. Yet, all songs have been written in a collaborative way, with everybody contributing to the result. While active in the Rock genre and scene Freya also started learning the Viola in 2012 and joined the Fujitsu Youth string orchestra Langen soon after.

Freya studied both literature and philosophy at Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Frankfurt/Main, where she graduated cum laude with her final thesis on the Grotesque. Just as her interests lie in more recent text, it is also more recent music that sparks her curiosity, which is why she decided to study classical composition under the guidance of Vykintas Baltakas at Conservatorium Maastricht, where she graduated cum laude in 2022. During these studies, she’s learned that her biggest passion lies within solo repertoire and chamber group settings, with specific focus on works for voice - due to its strong relation to text. A big part of her current work is the Moods-series - a collection of solo repertoire pieces, featuring flute, cello and its most prominent 5th part for baritone saxophone, which is being performed repeatedly since its debut. Furthermore Freya is interested in interdisciplinary work, especially modern opera or music theatre. Next to having written her first chamber opera Bitter she’s also produced the piece in 2022.

Being an active performing musician herself, Freya currently plays electric and double bass in various formations and varying music genres.