Duain Wolfe

A. Duain Wolfe (born 24 October 1945, Hammond, Louisiana) is an award-winning American choral conductor, founder of the Colorado Symphony Chorus and the Colorado Children's Chorale. He is the current chorus director and conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus (since 1994) and a past president of Chorus America.

Alvin Duain Wolfe earned his BM from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1966 and master's degree from the University of North Texas College of Music completing his thesis on Nineteenth-century New Orleans composers, published by the University in 1968.

Beginning in the early 1970s, Wolfe served as chorus master and a staff conductor at Central City Opera Festival, working closely with conductor John Moriarty. He also served the organization in various administrative capacities, maintaining a twenty-year relationship with the festival.

As a conductor at Central City, Wolfe was responsible for establishing a children's choral ensemble for a 1974 production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With this group of singers he founded the Colorado Children's Chorale, a youth choir based in Denver, Colorado. Under Wolfe's leadership and preparation the group achieved national recognition, appearing on NBC’s Today Show, CBS Christmas specials and BBC broadcasts of The Proms at Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. Other performances have included collaborations with Opera Colorado, Colorado Ballet, Opera Omaha, Toledo Opera, the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival, where they sang the children's chorus in a 1994 performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, in addition to appearances with many famous classical and popular musicians. He retired as Artistic Director of the Colorado Children's Chorale in 1999.

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