Vivian Adelberg Rudow
VivianAR[at]aol.com
Vivian Adelberg Rudow, Composer/Performance Artist/Lecturer/Concert Producer.
Education: Master of Music and Bachelor of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University
Interesting Performances: CALL FOR PEACE, flute and tape, January, 2009, Rome, Italy, Andrea Ceccomori, "Musica Experimento" and "Linea Bianca;" Beijing, China, International Congress on Women in Music, April 19, 2008, China Conservatory of Music In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, THE SKY SPEAKS, Clouds, Peabody Singers Chorus, Edward Polochick, conductor, Lindsay Thompson, soprano, Lauren Latessa, cello, Adam Rosenblatt & Candy Chiu, percussion and Stefan Petrov, piano, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Exciting Activities: LONDON PHILHARMONIC RECORDING of URBO TURBO (Urban Turbulence), Jeffrey Silberschlag, conductor, November 8, 2005; ORCHESTRA SINFONIA COMPAGNIA D’OPERA ITALIANA, Jeffrey Silberschlag, conductor, performed DARK WATERS OF ELBA, December 18, 2005 in Alba, Italy.
Recent Quotes : 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, 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.
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: Orchestral Music: A Handbook, David Daniels; AMERICAN PIANO TRIOS, A Resource Guide, Arno P. Drucker; WOMEN COMPOSERS AND MUSIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES CROSSING THE LINE, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, editor; 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, LIVE GENERAL: 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.
Performance, SPECIAL CREATIVE: Kennedy Center, Millennium stage, Washington, DC, August 13, 2001; Performance-Art LIVE on stage VARIATIONS OF VARIATIONS, XI, CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO, Rudow performing, Sonic Circuits Concert; (premiere Havana, Cuba 2000.)
Performances, SPIRIT OF AMERICA, alternate title for URBO TURBO: full orchestra with audience participation, July 12, 2002 Chesapeake Orchestra, Jeffrey Silberschlag, conductor; with adult chorus and audience participation, March 2, 2003 Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, conducting, Gordon Center, Owings Mills, March 3, Meyerhoff Concert Hall, Baltimore, Maryland.
Performances, RADIO 2004: Forty six radio performances around the world.
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 - 2006.
Curator: Baltimore Composers Forum Music for Franz West Exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art, 2008.
Publisher: Hollins and Park Music Company
211 Goodwood Gardens
Baltimore, MD 21210-2531 USA