“Music stirs the soul, gives flight to the imagination.” – Maestro David Michael Wolff

Maestro Wolff believes that music – whether mournful, funny, or ecstatic – is infused with joy, that by riding the wings of the past, music can elevate our present and enrich our future.  

Every Orchestra 2100 performance tells a story; innovative technology can provide tools to accomplish this. How might the canon of Western Civilization continue to influence and partner with today's vanguards of science and technology to create immersive experiences that allow us to experience music not only in a new way, but in a deeper and more viscerally affecting way?

This is a question we seek to explore.

Care to join us?

Symphony orchestra concerts often leave us feeling unaffected; they can feel like a static ode to a 19th century aristocratic ideal that is no longer merely irrelevant, but a deterrent to most would-be concert goers.  Is it any wonder that audiences are growing smaller with each passing year, that symphony orchestras across the country and internationally are at risk of bankruptcy more now than at any time since the days of Beethoven? 

Re-experience the joy of music.

Music Education

Concerts are just the beginning of what we do. Our concerts and events are a means of bringing together like-minded souls who might share and help us achieve our MTP (Massive Transformative Purpose): To positively impact 1,000,000 children through music and technology within the next ten years.

David Michael Wolff is a musician, educator, pianist, conductor and entrepreneur, now in his seventh season as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of The Carolina Philharmonic.  Under Maestro Wolff’s leadership, the orchestra has rapidly grown from a small chamber orchestra into one of the leading symphony orchestras in North Carolina.  Two of the Philharmonic’s first concerts were at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, and in the past few years the orchestra has come full circle with a meaningful partnership with the famed hall, bringing its education programs to the children of North Carolina. Along the way, Wolff was asked to create an interactive orchestral experience program for K-2 students called Encore! Kids, now serving thousands of children annually. 

Orchestra 2100 is the next step in Wolff's mission to reach at least one million children through music and technology within the next ten years. Wolff is rapidly assembling a consortium of technology vanguards, music educators, world-class performers, and entrepreneurial business leaders around this project of creating new possibilities for music education. The ensemble seeks to explore the future of the symphony orchestra as it tumbles into a world dominated by exponential developments in AI, VR, robotics, and nanotechnology. Wolff keenly believes that every tool, including nascent technologies, is invaluable to the symphony orchestra if it can enable the concert experience to tell a story, and give you a story to tell. 

Wolff made his orchestral début as piano soloist at the age of twelve. Three years later he entered the University of Washington on full scholarship majoring in Romance Languages and Piano Performance.  After obtaining his Master’s Degree in NYC under the direction of Byron Janis, celebrated pupil of Vladimir Horowitz, Wolff took up the baton.  Three years of study in Rome led to performances throughout Italy, conducting opera and symphonic works, as well as leading piano concertos from the keyboard.     

Along the way, Wolff won numerous prizes in international competitions, including grand prize in the Naomi Management International Competition in New York City.  Hundreds of performances across North America, Europe and Asia solidified his reputation as one of the foremost performing artists of his generation.  He has appeared over a dozen times at Carnegie Hall, both as pianist and conductor.  Wolff resides in Pinehurst, NC with this wife and daughter.

An avid linguist, Wolff is fluent in five languages and has been a sought-after coach of international opera stars as well as aspiring concert pianists. His diverse interests have led to collaborations with such artists as dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and choreographer Ruth Davidson Hahn and to numerous commissions to arrange and compose works for opera, modern dance and other multi-media projects.  Career highlights include a return to Carnegie with the Carolina Philharmonic, a performance for President Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative in Arkansas, and performances in Shanghai at the World Expo and at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with renowned Diva, Angela Brown.   Wolff is author of Zen and the Art of Piano. 

Board of Directors

David Loughran, board Chair

Quantum Partners, Inc.

CEO

Greater Washington, DC Area

Loughran is currently the Founder and CEO of Quantum Partners, Inc.  He has extensive experience serving as a CEO, as well as working closely with CEOs in diverse industries to help them develop solutions to strategic issues facing their companies. Prior business experience includes serving as the CEO of two e-learning companies – Global Learning Systems, with operations in the US and Europe; and Capital Edge Learning, an e-learning content development company; CEO of VisionQuest Solutions-a management consulting company; Treasurer of MedStar, a major DC based hospital system, VP Finance of NVR development, the land development subsidiary of NVR, one the largest homebuilding companies in the US; Executive Consultant to the CEO of the Fortress Group, a roll-up of 12 homebuilding companies across the US; VP Finance for Cricket Technologies, an e-discovery company; and CFO of CorpServ International, a global management consulting firm. Loughran also has extensive banking experience having served as a Senior Vice President with Union Bank and Trust (formerly Xenith Bank), and as a Vice President with Access National Bank, Maryland National Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC Bank as a commercial lender and banker serving the middle market in the Washington, DC and Pittsburgh areas. Areas of expertise in banking include revolving lines of credit, term loans, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, owner liquidity events. Industries covered included government contracting, technology, life sciences and light manufacturing. Loughran is also the Chairman of the Board of Orchestra 2100, Inc. (www.orchestra2100.org), a not-for-profit orchestra based in Reston, Virginia. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy with a BS in Economics and a former Marine Corps Officer.

Bill Craig, Board Member

WiSC Enterprises LLC

Bill has been part of the Intelligence Community (IC) for nearly 40 years. He began his career as a Russian linguist in the Air Force in 1979, where he and his wife were stationed in Berlin, Germany from 1980-1986 and had two sons while there.

Bill was selected for the Airman Education Commissioning Program in 1986. After selection to AECP, Bill and his family were transferred to Tempe, Arizona, where Bill attended Arizona State University and received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1989. Bill’s next stop was Officer Training School (OTS), later assigned to the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) at Wright-Patterson, AFB. After a short stint at FTD, Bill was selected by National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for a Master program at the University of Michigan. Bill graduated from Michigan in 1992 with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. The family’s next assignment was to Northern Virginia, where Bill worked for the NRO from 1992 – 1998. 

Bill retired from the Air Force in March of 1998 and began his civilian contracting career with SeiCorp, Inc. Bill left SeiCorp, Inc. in August of 2008 to start WiSC Enterprises LLC. In the summer of 2013, SeiCorp, Inc. novated to WiSC uniting the only two companies Bill had worked for as a civilian and providing WiSC with past performance across the IC that dates back to 1995.

Bill is a board member of Orchestra 2100 (http://orchestra2100.org) and is actively involved in its Encore! Kids program and Orchestra classical music events featuring world class artists.

Tim Clark, Board Member

Capefirst Funding, LLC

Co-Founder and Managing Principal

Greater Washington, DC Area

Tim Clark is co-founder and Managing Principal of Capefirst Funding, LLC, a commercial lending, factoring, and investment company based in Northern Virginia. Previously, Mr. Clark was CEO of Academic Management Services, Inc., an education finance and loan servicing organization originating almost $1 billion in loan volume annually, CFO of Lighthouse Underwriters, a commercial insurance MGA, and CEO of Gazelle Technical Services, a telecommunications contractor providing infrastructure services to mobile carriers. Mr. Clark was also a banking and insurance securities analyst for international investment bank Alex. Brown & Sons, and at MNC Financial, he oversaw units providing financing to buyers of general aviation aircraft and recreational watercraft, and divisions engaged in auto leasing and home equity lending. At international consultancy Management Analysis Center, Inc. and with Talegis LLC, Mr. Clark advised money center and regional banks on corporate and business unit strategy, chartered a de novo federal savings bank on behalf of a major trade association, and oversaw or participated on teams that assessed M&A opportunities and addressed problem-solving initiatives such as merger integration, business unit divestiture, business process automation, market segmentation, and differential pricing. In addition to his work in the financial services industry, Mr. Clark has advised, and has provided or otherwise originated debt and equity financing for, small and mid-size companies in such sectors as SaaS, software development, data analytics, training, consumer products (cosmetics and food), medical devices and services, professional services, energy, and construction, including contractors serving principally the State Department and U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. Mr. Clark is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and earned an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

David Michael Wolff, Founder

Principal Conductor and Artistic Director

Orchestra 2100 and The Carolina Philharmonic

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