Her works have been commissioned Carnegie Hall, Washington National Opera,[1] Tapestry Opera,[2] Minnesota Sinfonia, Salle Bourgie, ECM+, Perelman Performing Arts Center,[3] Concours Musical International de Montréal,[4] among others, with collaborations with artists including Jeremy Irons, Cornelia Funke, Joyce DiDonato, Frederica von Stade, Royce Vavrek, David Van Taylor, Matt Haimovitz, and Dame Evelyn Glennie amongst many others.
[6] Woolf's principal composition teachers have been Mario Davidovsky, Augusta Read Thomas, Lewis Spratlan and Don Wheelock.
Luna Pearl Woolf along with cellist Matt Haimovitz, created the label Oxingale Records, a sub-label of PENTATONE, in 2000.
[13] The work was commissioned by the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), and was premiered April 12-14, 2024, conducted by Kamna Gupta, directed by Ty Defoe, and co-produced by Trinity Church Wall Street.
[25] Performed at the National Presbyterian Church by cellist Matt Haimovitz, soprano Marnie Breckenridge, tenor and Jonathan Blalock, baritone James Shaffran, and The Washington Chorus directed by Julian Watchner.
Woolf’s atmospheric music serves a different purpose… her compositions add psychological nuances and emotional depth through ever-changing textures.
Set in shards of imitative Bach cello suite fragments, and buttressed with non-tonal impressionistic properties, both percussive or spectral, the discontinuous narrative was something to be experienced, and far less so to be analyzed”.