Composer
- Performance Artist
Lecturer - Concert Producer
Some Professional Data / Brief Biography
Education: Peabody Conservatory
of Music, Preparatory Department, musicianship early 1950’s; Master of Music and Bachelor of Music, Peabody Conservatory
of Music of Johns Hopkins University
Quotes 2004: CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO, an excerpt
from PORTRAITS OF LAWYERS (The Velvet Hammers,) “Vivian Adelberg
Rudow’s piece .... makes it a vivid and repeat-worthy listening
experience,” All-Music Guide, Canada, Francois Couture; “
this piece is outstanding, marvelous!” “WMUA 91.1 FM” (USA), program
“Martian Gardens,” DJ Max Shea; “...Pretty wild stuff.”
journalist Jerry Kranitz from "Aural Innovations" (USA)
Awards: ASCAP Plus Standard Award each
year
since 1987; First Prize: 1986 14th International
Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges, program division,
WITH LOVE, a fantasy for live cello & decorated cello cases,
(prepared tape), first American woman to win a first prize in the
Bourges competition & first woman to win Program division; Baltimore
CityArts Awards in ‘92 & ‘86; Maryland State Arts
Council Fellowship ’86; First Prize in the International Double
Reed Society Composition Contest, solo division, 1977, KADDISH
solo bassoon
Honor: FORCE III, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, FIRST
orchestral work by a Maryland composer performed in the Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall, December, 1982, Sergiu Comissiona conducting
Juror: Jeu de temps March 2001/2/3 Times Play, YSEA competition
for CEC, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Concordia University; 2003
SANS competition UK; NAACP ACTSO, competition for 1986, 1989,
1991, other years, 2001,03,04 Baltimore
Articles published:
“Music
Management “ for WOMEN AND MUSIC IN AMERICA SINCE 1900: AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA, and “How do I use the computer as a creative process”
WOW’EM, an internet young composer’s site, Kristine Burns editor
and founder; Music Reviews: IAWM, “Coming Home,” Volume 11, no.
1; “Anna Rubin Electric Music” Volume 11, no 2.
Books/Journal mention:
AMERICAN
PIANO TRIOS, A Resource Guide,
Arno P. Drucker; AUDIBLE TRACES, gender, identity, and music
Barkin and Hamessley; WOMEN AND MUSIC IN AMERICA SINCE 1900: AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA, Kristine Burns; IAWM Journal, Volume 10. No. 2
. 2004, Grace Cavalieri; review DAWN’S JOURNEY, Ruth Rose
IAWM Volume 11, no 2.
Performances
around
the world:
Australia, Austria, Asia, Canada, China, Cuba, Eastern Europe, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Puerto Rico, Spain,
South Africa, The Netherlands,& the United States of America.
CD’s:
THE BARE
SMOOTH STONE OF YOUR LOVE, in memory Daniel Malkin, Stephen Kates,
cello, Eun-Jung Shon, piano, NACUSA, Greetings From;
SUNBURSTS, solo piano works by 7 American women, Nanette
Kaplan Solomon, pianist, REBECCA’S SUITE, LEONARDA label, LE
345; ELECTR0-ACOUSTIC CELLO BOOK, Craig Hultgren, cellist,
WITH LOVE on LIVING ARTIST RECORDINGS, volume 4; honors compact
disc, CULTURES ELECTRONIQUES 3 LDC 278046/47, LE
CHANT DU MONDE, Harmonia Mundi Label, with the winners of the 16th
annual award winners, 1988, WITH LOVE, Paula Skolnick-Virizlay Vc.;
ELECTROSHOCK RECORDS VOLUME VIII from Moscow Russia,
RACING INSIDE THE MILKYWAY, Artemiy Artemiev producer; and
ELECTROSHOCK RECORDS VOLUME IX, CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO from
Moscow Russia, Artemiev producer.
Arts management: Founder & artistic
producer/director/conductor of Res Musica Baltimore, later Res
MusicAmerica, Inc.: organization of high quality performers that
presented 283 music works mainly by American living composers for full
house audiences, plus 26 symposia and 22 youth concerts from 1980-91,
produced in 1988, an International Electroacoustic Music Festival
during which composers from 14 different countries attended;
Chairperson/Producer Peggy & Yale Gordon Har Sinai Concert Series
1992 - present.
Visiting Guest: Composer/Lecture/Demostrarions/Speeches/Panel Memeber
Goucher College, Towson, MD “CROSSING BOUNDARIES” November 16,
2004
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Maryland, December 11, 2003
Towson State University, Burdick Hall, Towson MD.Nancy Wanich Romita,
professor, Lecture to Dance students: October 2, 2002
Loyola College, Lecture and Music demonstration both live, WITH LOVE and
pre-recorded excerpts of other music,
Baltimore, MD, November 12, 1999 in conjunction with "TO THIS WE CAME"
art exhibition, Penny Harris, Director.
Brandeis Guest Artist, Baltimore Jaspers, "My Music Garden", May 21,
1998.
James Madison University, "Crossover"; Popular music influence on
contemporary classical music, 1980's,
2-1-95 and "Growth and Development of Res MusicAmerica" 1-30-95.
University of Puerto Rico, II Muestra International De Musica
Electroacustica, San Juan, Puerto, Rico, March 28, 1995,
"Creation of With Love".
Bourges, France, International Electroacoustic Music Symposium, June
10-13, 1992.
Temple Oheb Shalon, Yale-Gordon Series, May 13, 1992.
Memphis State University, New Music Festival, March 6, 1992.
Baltimore Jewish Community Center, December 18, 1991.
Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, March 24-26, 1990.
Strathmore Hall, Rockville, Maryland, 1987.
Johns Hopkins University, Garrett Room, 1986.
University of Baltimore, 1986.
Varadero Cuba, 1986.
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.
College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 1974.
Publisher: Hollins and Park Music Company
Organizations
American Composers Forum;
American Music Center;
ASCAP;
Baltimore Composers Forum;
IAWM;
Living Music;
NACUSA;
SCI;
SEAMUS;
South Eastern Composers League.