Sospeso presents the world premiere of Christian Wolff's homage to Elliott Carter a work written for Sospeso, on Friday, January 30, 2004. 

Sospeso also presented the world premiere of Mr. Wolff's Exercise 28 at the Lincoln Center Festival 2000 theremin concert with grand thereminist Lydia Kavina.  

The French-born American musician came to prominence in the 1950s as an associate of John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and the other American experimentalists of that period, later working with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. His work has gone through many transformations, including minimalism (the early 1950s), indeterminancy, open form and works connected with political issues.  

Born March 8, 1934 in Nice, France, Mr. Wolff has lived mainly in the U.S. since 1941; he became an American citizen in 1946.  He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition (briefly) with John Cage, but he describes himself as an autodidact.  It was early contact with Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown—and, later, Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski—that helped form the direction of his work.  His academic training in classics and comparative literature at Harvard University lead him to professorships in classics at Harvard and, since 1971, at Dartmouth College, where he also teaches comparative literature and music.