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Napoleon Complex Awarded 1st Prize in Con/un/drum Competition

Jessica Rudman's composition Napoleon Complex was recently awarded 1st Prize in the Con/un/drum Solo Percussion Composition Competition. As part of this prize, the piece will be performed by percussionist Cory Hills and Ms. Rudman will compose a new work for him.

Jessica Rudman Selected as a Omaha Symphony Competition Winner

Ms. Rudman was selected as one of four competition winners of the Omaha Symphony's Call for Scores. Her work, Fantasy Variations on a Forgotten Myth, was workshopped and performed by the Symphony's Chamber Orchestra during their New Music Symposium on April 8- 10, 2008.

Review by Dan Barry of the Hartford Advocate

The December 7, 2007 issue of the Hartford Advocate includes a review of The Hartt School's semi-annual Public Works Concert. Dan Barry writes:

"...Likewise, Jessica Rudman trafficked in questions of the heart, though the pieces from her Suite for Alto Sax, Bass Trombone, Viola, and Cello were less like a story and more like a simulcast. At any one moment, themes of inner turmoil would compete with numbness for airtime, evoking complexity where many of her peers were simply bipolar. Rudman’s rigorous sonic palette was capable of rendering ideas like the joy of transgression and recklessness as a distraction from loneliness. She only previewed the first three pieces of the six-piece suite; I’m looking forward to the second half."

To read the complete article, please visit the Hartford Advocate online.

Upcoming and Recent Events

• MAY 15, 2010: Joe D'Aleo will premiere Fedora for alto saxophone and piano. (West Hartford, CT)

• APRIL 17, 2010: Premiere of a new work for orchestra at the Third Annual Sgt. Kathy Brunelle Memorial Concert . (Lincoln, NH)

• MAR. 17, 2010: Two Poems will be performed by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Chamber Singers during the Women Composers Festival. (Indiana, PA)

• MAR. 5, 2010: Anthea Kreston will premiere A Dark Gaze Bathed in Lighton the Phoenix Conert Series. (New York, NY)

• DEC. 3, 2009: From the Blue Fog for large chamber ensemble and electronics was premiered by the Central Connecticut State University Chamber Players. (New Britain, CT)


• OCT. 11, 2009: Ms. Rudman presented "Hidden Complexity: Rhythmic Processes in Ligeti's Arc-en-ciel" at the 2009 SCI Region V Conference in Dubuque, IA.


• AUG. 6, 2009: Black Sails for percussion duo was premiered by Mike Lunoe and Bill Solomon at the Hartt School. (West Hartford, CT)


• JULY 21, 2009: The Devil's Knob String Quartet premiered String Quartet No. 2 at the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival in Virginia.