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Vivian Adelberg Rudow Composer/Performance Artist/Lecturer
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Biography, March 2009 Vivian Adelberg Rudow, a sound portrait painter, composes music ranging from solo electronic to full acoustic orchestra, from lyrical and melodic to experimental and innovative. She has won ASCAP Awards each year since 1987. Her WITH LOVE, for cello and tape, won First Prize in the program division of the 14th International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France. Her FORCE III for full orchestra, performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Comissiona conducting, was the first orchestral work by a Maryland composer performed in Baltimore’s Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. In 2005, The London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded Adelberg Rudow’s URBO TURBO, Urban Turbulence, (alternate title SPIRIT OF AMERICA) and her DARK WATERS OF ELBA was performed by the Orchestra Sinfonia Compagnia D’Opera Italiana in Alba, Italy, also in 2005. She has participated in a performance art piece, live, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has had music performed in Australia, Austria, Asia, Canada, China, Cuba, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Puerto Rico, Spain, South Africa, The Netherlands, and throughout the U.S. Her music is published by Hollins and Park Music Company and is included on six CDs, including releases on the Leonarda, Electroshock, Le Chant Du Monde/Serie, and Living Artist labels. Vivian earned a Master of Music Degree from Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University. Producing concerts has also been an active interest for Vivian. In December 2008, she curated music from the Baltimore Composers Forum for the Franz West Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. For 14 years she produced Peggy and Yale Gordon Har Sinai Concerts and from 1980 to 1991 produced more than 300 Res Musica Baltimore/Res MusicAmerica concerts, youth concerts, pre concert lectures and an international electronic music festival. Her website is at www.vivianadelbergrudow.com |