Samantha Wolf is an Australian-born, US-based composer, sound designer, and arts educator. Described as “haunting”, “enigmatic”, “inspired”, and “a force to be reckoned with”, her music has been featured around the world, including by the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Bang on a Can, the Sydney Opera House, Elision, the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Elm Shakespeare Company, the Australian National Academy of Music, Pique Collective, Impuls Academy, and the Performing Media Festival at the South Bend Museum of Art.

Samantha holds degrees from the Queensland Conservatorium, Melbourne University, and the Yale School of Music, where she was a President’s Public Service Fellow and the recipient of the prestigious Ezra Laderman Award. Other awards include the University of Sydney’s Sue W Composition Prize, Rubiks Collective’s Pythia Prize, Ensemble Offspring’s Noisy Women Commission, and a major project grant from Creative Australia. From 2022-2024, she was the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Longy School of Music in Boston, MA. Currently, Samantha is Visiting Professor in Composition at the University of Alabama School of Music, where she serves as Co-Artistic Director of the University of Alabama Contemporary Ensemble; Visiting Creative Partner with Grammy-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion; Composition Faculty at The Walden School; and a member of ICEBERG New Music Collective in New York, NY. Samantha is represented by APRA in Australia and ASCAP in the United States.