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Jessica Rudman Receives the Libby Larsen Prize

Jessica Rudman's composition Vortices was awarded the Libby Larsen Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music. Part of the IAWM's Search for New Music, the prize is given annually to a women currently enrolled in school. Full details can be found here.

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

Jessica Rudman's composition Napoleon Complex was 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."

Upcoming and Recent Events

• JUNE 15 , 2011: Premiere of Certain Octobers by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat. (Northampton, MA)

• MAY 17, 2011: Premiere of Shatter Moments by the Cygnus Ensemble. (New York, NY)

• MAY 3, 2011: Premiere of The Sharp Edges of the Night by Danya Katok, Bill McNally, and Oliver Markson. (New York, NY)

• MAY 3, 2011: The Central CT State University Chamber Players perform Black Satin Triptych. (New Britain, CT)

• APR. 10, 2011: Eric Honour performed Concertina No. 1: Cathedrals for baritone sax and electronics at the University of Central Missouri New Music Festival/SCI Region VI Conference. (Warrensburg, MO)

• MAR. 22, 2011: Ashley Murtha performed L'Age Mur for flute on the CUNY Composers' Alliance Concert. (New York, NY)

• MAR. 12, 2011: Richard Leslie performed Elegy for trumpet at the Fairfield Women Women Composers Festival. (Westport, CT)

• MAR. 5, 2011: Richard Leslie performed Elegy for trumpet at Concert Pro Femina. (West Ha Hartford, CT)

• MAR. 3, 2011: Sheri Brown and Anastasia Seifetdinova performed Fedora on the Women Composers Festival of Hartford Local Composers Concert. (West Hartford, CT)

• FEB. 24, 2011: Twisted Blue for clarinet and chamber orchestra premiered by Dan Liptak and the Hartt Independent Chamber Orchestra. Elegy for solo trumpet is also performed by Richard Leslie. (West Hartford, CT)

• JAN. 8, 2011: Mike Lunoe and Ben Wallace perform Black Sails. (Cincinnati, OH)

• DEC. 18, 2010: Sheri Brown and Anastasia Seifetdinova performed Fedora on the New Music Hartford Concert Series. (Hartford, CT)

• DEC. 8, 2010: The Transit Ensemble performed Three Pieces for the Anatolian Trio. (New York, New York)

• OCT. 15- 16, 2010: The Seasons Music Festival presented Vortices and The Man Who Wants You. (Yakima, WA)

• OCT. 9, 2010: Fabrizio Paoletti performed Concertina No. 1: Cathedrals.(Madrid, Spain)

• JULY 27, 2010: A Dark Gaze Bathed in Light is perfomed at the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival. (Wintergreen, VA)