Discipline: Music Composition

Andrew Rudin

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Allentown, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963, 1964, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1995, 2008, 2013

Andrew Rudin worked on a concerto for Metropolitan Opera Orchesta cellist Sam Magill and continued a song cycle on poems of May Swenson. His Concerto for Viola, on Centaur Records, was nominated for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. In May 2018 he was given a Music Award by The American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Studios

MacDowell

Andrew Rudin worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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