Vivian Adelberg Rudow


Vivian Adelberg Rudow is an American composer, performance artist, conductor and concert producer. She composes in the genres of acoustic and electroacoustic music with works ranging from solo to full orchestra. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Education

Adelberg Rudow received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano in 1960 and a Master of Music degree in composition from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 1979. She studied piano with Austin Conradi and composition with Jean Eichelberger Ivey and Robert Hall Lewis. Her earliest composition and theory studies were under Grace Newsom Cushman at the Junior Conservatory Camp.

Awards and honors

Adelberg Rudow has won multiple ASCAP Plus Awards since 1987. In 1982 her Force III was premiered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Sergiu Comissiona and she became the first Maryland composer to have an orchestral work performed in the new Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. In 1986, Rudow’s composition, With Love; a fantasy for live cello and decorated cello cases, in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg won First Prize in the 14th International Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition in Bourges, France in the Program Division. Adelberg Rudow won First Prize in the International Double Reed Society Composition Contest for her piece Kaddish for solo bassoon, and additionally received a Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship, a City Arts Individual Artist Grant and a Meet-the-Composer Grant.

Career

Adelberg Rudow’s music has been performed worldwide. Her composition Urbo Turbo was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She has frequently collaborated with award-winning Maryland poet Grace Cavalieri, including three satellite radio specials of her music in Cavalieri’s " satellite radio broadcasts. Adelberg Rudow has developed her own style of performance art presentations named “The Vivian.” In 2000, she premiered her performance art piece Juan Blanco, Cuban Lawyer Variations of Variations in Havana during the International Electroacoustic Music Festival “Spring Time in Havana” for the 80th birthday of Juan Blanco, Director of the Cuban Electroacoustic Music studio. She performed the piece again in August 2001 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC during a Sonic Circuits concert. She was the founding artistic director of Res Musica Baltimore, later Res MusicAmerica, a successful organization active between 1980 and 1991 dedicated to presenting the works of living American composers. In 1988, she produced an International Electroacoustic Music Festival in Baltimore.

Discography

  • Love, Loss and Law, in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg and Harry Adelberg. Music Documentaries: “With Love,” “Portrait of a Friend,” and “Portraits of Lawyers,”. December, 2009
  • Le Chant du Monde, Harmonia Mundi Label, with the Bourges winners of the 16th composition contest 1988, “With Love,” Paula Skolnick-Virizlay, Violoncello.
  • Electroshock Records– Various Electroacoustic Music, Vol. VIII “Racing Inside The Milky Way.”
  • Electroshock Records– Various Electroacoustic Music, Vol. IX “Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco.”
  • Sunbursts, solo piano works by 7 American women, Nanette Kaplan Solomon, pianist “Rebecca’s Suite,” Leonarda label, LE 345

Selected works

  • Americana Visited Variations, 1984
  • Ars Nova, 1981
  • Call For Peace, 2006
  • Changing Space, 1972
  • Clouds of Memories, 2002
  • Cuban Lawyer, Juan Blanco, excerpt from Portraits of Lawyers originally The Velvet Hammers, 2000
  • Dan’s Suite, in memory of Daniel Malkin,
  • *Lament, 1997
  • *The Bare Smooth Stone of Your Love, 1998
  • Dawn’s Journey, in memory of Dawn Culbertson
  • *, 2005
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  • Devy's Song, 1984
  • Dark Waters of Elba, 2005
  • Deepwater Horizons: Will We Sleep Again?, 2011
  • Earth Day Suite:
  • *Dark Waters Of The Chesapeake,, 2010
  • *Go Green!, 2010
  • Fanfare For My Hero, In The Pin Striped Suit, 1993
  • Force III,1979
  • The Head Remembers Victims, of W.W.II,, 2008
  • The Healing Place VI, 1991
  • I Pledge My Love, 1992
  • *
  • *
  • John’s Song, in memory of John J. Hill,, 2006
  • Journey of Waters, 1994
  • Journey of Waters, 1984
  • Journey of Waters, 1991
  • Journey of Waters II, 2006
  • Kaddish, in memory of Isaac Hollins, 1975
  • No Rest For Devy's Spirit, 1984
  • Not Me!, 1989
  • The Ocean Sings, 2010
  • Portrait of A Friend, 1986.
  • Portraits of Lawyers, 1989-2004
  • Purple Ice, 8-10 songs, 1984–92
  • Rebecca's Suite, in memory of Rebecca Blackwell
  • *Rebecca’s Song, 1989
  • *Rebecca’s Rainbow Racing Among the Stars, 1991
  • The Sky Speaks, 1. Clouds, revised 2007
  • Urbo Turbo
  • *, 1999
  • *, revised 2008
  • Weeping Rocker III, 1993
  • With Love, a fantasy for live cello and cello cases in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg, 1986