Member Highlight
A. J. Wulf has enjoyed a prominent and varied career as an educator and performer of music and theatre in all genres. He has taught high school for a decade, serving at Mountain View High School in Loveland, Liberty High School in Colorado Springs, and Weld Central High School in Keenesburg, primarily as a director of choirs and musical theatre productions. In this time at Liberty, his Chamber Singers and Jazz Choir were invited to give performances at Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic/Conference, and his Chamber Singers and Women’s Ensemble were selected respectively for the 2018 (Premiere) and 2019 Music For All National Choir Festivals in Indianapolis, making his the first choir selected from Colorado and the first program to be selected twice consecutively for the National Festival. He is further known for his work with bands, serving as a woodwind and drum major coach for the state champion and medalist marching bands from Fossil Ridge, Liberty, and Berthoud High Schools and a director of clarinet choirs. While at Liberty, Mr. Wulf was a two-time finalist for the Peak Performance Award for excellence in choral education, a two-time finalist for the school’s Educator of the Year, and winner of the district’s Thomas Crawford Team of the Year Award for his work with the performing arts department.
A passionate director and theatre educator, Mr. Wulf has been involved with some three dozen productions as a music director, conductor, chorus master, composer, scenic designer, painter, and performer, culminating in his ongoing engagements as Music Director and Principal Conductor for Loveland Opera Theatre and the Empire Lyric Players of Denver, also serving on the board of directors for the latter. Mr. Wulf was music director and oversaw scenic design and painting for Mountain View and Liberty High Schools’ active theatre departments, helping to create widely acclaimed productions with accolades including performances at the Colorado State Thespians Conference and multiple Bobby G awards and nominations.
Mr. Wulf is a native of Casper, Wyoming and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, majoring in music education and clarinet. He won the Rocky Mountain Concerto Competition, performing Michael Daugherty's Brooklyn Bridge with the UNC Wind Ensemble in November 2013. Wulf is notable for his chamber music work as founding director, arranger, and bass clarinetist with the clarinet ensemble Grenadilla Warfare, with whom he won the Angie Southard Convocation performance competition and toured in multiple states. He served as bass clarinetist with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, and is in demand as a woodwind specialist in civic ensembles and theatre orchestras across the region, most recently as E-flat clarinetist the Foothills Symphonic Band and a principal clarinetist in the Health and Wellness Orchestra, both based in Fort Collins. Mr. Wulf is an active professional singer whose engagements have included choral work with the Evans Choir, the Glen Eyrie Madrigal Chorale, and the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble and solo appearances with the Colorado Springs Choral Society and the X-VOX Festival Chorus. He has been a featured guest conductor with the Colorado Springs Chorale, the Greeley Chorale, and honor choir festivals for Academy and Fountain Fort Carson School Districts. Mr. Wulf holds a Master of Music degree in conducting from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where he was a graduate teaching assistant with bands and choirs and studied with Catherine Sailer, Joseph Martin, and Nathan Payant.
A passionate director and theatre educator, Mr. Wulf has been involved with some three dozen productions as a music director, conductor, chorus master, composer, scenic designer, painter, and performer, culminating in his ongoing engagements as Music Director and Principal Conductor for Loveland Opera Theatre and the Empire Lyric Players of Denver, also serving on the board of directors for the latter. Mr. Wulf was music director and oversaw scenic design and painting for Mountain View and Liberty High Schools’ active theatre departments, helping to create widely acclaimed productions with accolades including performances at the Colorado State Thespians Conference and multiple Bobby G awards and nominations.
Mr. Wulf is a native of Casper, Wyoming and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, majoring in music education and clarinet. He won the Rocky Mountain Concerto Competition, performing Michael Daugherty's Brooklyn Bridge with the UNC Wind Ensemble in November 2013. Wulf is notable for his chamber music work as founding director, arranger, and bass clarinetist with the clarinet ensemble Grenadilla Warfare, with whom he won the Angie Southard Convocation performance competition and toured in multiple states. He served as bass clarinetist with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, and is in demand as a woodwind specialist in civic ensembles and theatre orchestras across the region, most recently as E-flat clarinetist the Foothills Symphonic Band and a principal clarinetist in the Health and Wellness Orchestra, both based in Fort Collins. Mr. Wulf is an active professional singer whose engagements have included choral work with the Evans Choir, the Glen Eyrie Madrigal Chorale, and the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble and solo appearances with the Colorado Springs Choral Society and the X-VOX Festival Chorus. He has been a featured guest conductor with the Colorado Springs Chorale, the Greeley Chorale, and honor choir festivals for Academy and Fountain Fort Carson School Districts. Mr. Wulf holds a Master of Music degree in conducting from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where he was a graduate teaching assistant with bands and choirs and studied with Catherine Sailer, Joseph Martin, and Nathan Payant.