Asher Wulfman is a performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral works for violin and viola, based in Ithaca NY. A member of the Syracuse Orchestra and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Asher also serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Viola and Violin at Ithaca College and Visiting Lecturer of Violin at Cornell University. He has appeared as a soloist with the Livingston Symphony Orchestra and the Oberlin Sinfonietta, and has performed at music festivals including Loon Lake Live, Skaneateles Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Yellow Barn Music Festival YAP, Round Top Festival Institute, and Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival. Asher teaches on the faculty of Opus Ithaca School of Music and Luzerne Music Center.
Asher is a frequent interpreter of new music, and has taken part in collaborations and premieres by composers including Seare Farhat, María Bulla, James Parker, and Coral Douglas. He is regularly featured in Cornell University’s contemporary music concert series, Ensemble X, joining in memorable performances of chamber works by Elizabeth Ogonek, George Crumb, Kaija Saariaho, and Marcos Balter. He has also enjoyed workshops and collaborations with DMA composers in the Cornell music department. As a Spoleto Festival fellow, he participated in the premiere of Rhiannon Giddens’ and Michael Abels’ opera, “Omar”, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 2022, Asher was an invited participant in Creative Dialogues, an international composer-performer workshop sponsored by the Sibelius Academy. In 2018, he was a featured artist with the Oberlin Sinfonietta, playing Four Portraits for Solo Violin by Grammy-winning composer Billy Childs.
As a chamber musician and recital soloist, Asher performs frequently in New York state and beyond. Always eager to put together a new project, Asher has engaged local audiences with programs at Cornell Midday Music, Civic Morning Musicals, Aurora Opera House, and MIX Gallery. During the summer, he makes regular appearances at Loon Lake Live and the Skaneateles Festival, where in 2023 he performed duos alongside guitarist Eliot Fisk. Asher holds a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, and Bachelor’s Degrees in Violin Performance and English from Oberlin College and Conservatory, where, in addition to his accomplishments as a violinist, he was awarded the Andrew Bongiorno Prize for English Literature. He owes a great deal to his past teachers Lina Bahn, Marilyn McDonald, and Richard Amoroso.