Wilde completed his undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School where he worked with Samuel Adler and Christopher Rouse. Wilde went on to do a PhD at Princeton University where he worked with Steven Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko and Dan Trueman. In 2015 Wilde was named a Bang on a Can Summer Festival Fellow and worked with composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon at MASS MOCA. 