VIVIAN ADELBERG RUDOW - USA
BORN 1 APRIL
Vivian Adelberg Rudow is one of the very few composers who has music skills to compose in classical acoustic and electro-acoustic music, and the combined genres. A “sound portrait painter” whose performances have been extremely successful, her music expresses emotion, life experiences, and hopes and dreams. Adelberg Rudow believes that pop music rhythms and vocabulary are our folk music of today and may be incorporated in classical music just as Brahms and Bartók used folk music in their compositions. She has had numerous performances in the USA and around the world.
Winner of ASCAP Plus awards for 29 years; First Prize in the 14th International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges 1986, Program Division; First Maryland Composer to have an orchestra performance in Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1982, Sergiu Comissiona, Conductor; three winning pieces in the 1970’s Annapolis Fine Arts Festival Music Composition Contests; First Prize, in the solo, duet division, of the International Double Reed Society Composition Contest in 1977; City Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1986, 1992; Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship,1986; and featured in the KEYBOARD MAGAZINE, May, 1989 issue; Adelberg Rudow has Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University.
In Performance Art, Adelberg Rudow has created “The Vivian Technique of Creating a Sound Collage,” her method of activating and non activating music via small hand held remote controllers controlling at least four portable multi track CD players on stage, combining music to create a new live collage work. She performed “The Vivian Technique...” in 2000 for a performance in Havana, Cuba honoring Juan Blanco, in 2001 at the Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, and again in 2010, Havana, Cuba.
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ANNE-MARIE ØRBECK - NORWAY
BORN 1 APRIL
Anne-Marie Ørbeck studied piano in Oslo and Berlin, her teacher was Sandra Drouker. She also studied harmony, counterpoint, instrumentation and composition with teachers like Gustav Lange, Mark Lothar, Paul Höffer, Nadia Boulanger, Hanns Jelinek and Darius Milhaud. Her debut as a pianist took place in Oslo 1933 with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vocal music and especially Lieder has a central position in Anne-Marie Ørbeck's production. Her song cycle "Vonir i blømetid" was a price winner in a competiton arranged by the Norwegian Society of Composers in 1942. She has also composed two songs with orchestra, several choral works amd psalm tunes. Her vocal music is very lyrical, but is also characterized with a certain freshness. From her great production for the piano one could mention the Sonatina in three movements and her five cadenzas for piano concertos by Haydn and Mozart, revealing her clear sense for the classical style.
However, her orchestal works are most well known. Her Concertino for Piano and Orchestra was premiered in Berlin in 1938 with herself as soloist. Her Symphony, which was composed during the war, had its first performance in Bergen in 1954, conducted by Carl von Garaguly. This work as well as her Pastorale ans Allegro for flute and strings are her works played most often.
In spite of her studies in twelvetone technique with Jelinek, and an open mind towards contemporary music Anne-Marie Ørbeck always has composed tonal music. Her artistic view is based on a strong belief in own musical instincts and originality, - to experiment just for the sake of experimentation is not her style. Or to put it in her own words: "When a composer manages to realize her own originality in the music, the work has a possibility to survive".
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Sonatine N.2 For Piano by Anne-Marie Ørbeck
Sonatine N.2 For Piano by Anne-Marie Ørbeck
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