Biography

Jessica Rudman is active in the Connecticut new music community as a composer, concert organizer, and educator.  She is a founding member of The Hartford Sound Alliance (a local composer-performer collective) and is deeply involved in the Annual Greater Hartford Women Composers Festival, for which she was a co-recipient of a Women’s Education and Leadership Fund Grant from the University in Hartford. In previous years, she has also served as the director of Public Works, The Hartt School’s semi-annual student composer concert.  Ms. Rudman is a faculty member at The Hartt School, Central Connecticut State University, and the Connecticut Inter-District Music Composition Program.

Ms. Rudman has been the recipient of various awards and honors including the Omaha Symphony’s New Music Symposium Score Call (2008), the Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize in Music (2004), the A&D Burton Scholarship for Music Composition (2007), the University of Hartford Regents’ Honor Award (2007), a Women’s Education and Leadership Fund Grant (2007).  Recently, her work Napoleon Complex was awarded first prize in the Con/un/drum Percussion Competition.  As a theorist, Ms. Rudman has presented her paper, “Hidden Complexity: Rhythmic Processes in Ligeti’s Arc-en-ciel” at meetings of the New England Conference of Music Theorists, the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, and SCI (Region V conference). She has also served as a peer reviewer for the online journal, Search. 

Ms. Rudman holds a B.A. with Distinction in Music from the University of Virginia, a M.M. in Music Composition from The Hartt School, and an A.D. in Music Composition, also from Hartt.  Her teachers have included Narcis Bonet, Matthew Burtner, Robert Carl, Stephen Gryc, Gilda Lyons, Ingram Marshall, Walter Ross, and Larry Alan Smith.  Ms. Rudman has also participated in masterclasses with Bright Sheng, Paul Moravec, George Tsontakis, and Joseph Schwantner, and has attended festivals including the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy, the European Musical Alliance Summer Composition Program, Music07, Nevada Encounters of New Music, and the Bard Conductor’s Institute.

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