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ELIZABETH RUDOLPH

A CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER IN CHICAGO, IL

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Music as Communication

"Rudolph’s music is decidedly post-minimalistic, characterized by complex rhythms and repeated figures...the vocal writing was singable and allowed for clarity of text even when the two voices sang different words simultaneously."
Katherine Buzard, Chicago Classical Review

"Rudolph’s score is attractively minimalist and, when sung, never unclear"
Patrick O'Brien, Chicagoland Musical Theatre

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relfected reverberation - album release

Early March 2023

Reflected Reverberations is an album by composer Elizabeth Rudolph and features performances by Sarah Thompson Johansen, Megan Elizabeth Cook, Beck Buechel, Teresa Jiseung Kang, Dalia Chin, Rachel Schuldt and Theresa Lams. Conductor for The Lake is Christopher Owen.

The album is produced by Emily Cox of Cox Productions and is recorded and engineered by Matthew Peckham and Shelby Lock at Peckham Media Productions.

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the Red Death

Music and slideshow by Elizabeth Rudolph

Read by SarahAnn Sutter

Story by Edgar Allan Poe (edit: Rudolph)

"We are all bastards"
From Imogen

"We are all Bastards" from Act2 Scene2 of Imogen by Elizabeth Rudolph. In this scene we see Leonate sung by baritone Ian Murrell.

 

Piano and music direction by Myron Silberstein.

Imogen is a full length, contemporary opera for 11 singers based on the play Cymbeline by Shakespeare.

"Time Stops"

This song was written in June 2020 and is dedicated to all of humanity who have lost loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sung by Brian Pember
Piano by Sarah Jenks

Poetry by Julie Ann Ball

Music by Elizabeth Rudolph.

Commissions - Hire a chicago based composer

Elizabeth Rudolph is a Chicago-based composer and is sought after for art song, opera, choral, chamber, orchestral compositions and more. 

Artist blog

"This is a place where I express my philosophy of art and talk about the creative process. Follow along to learn why create art and dive into my thoughts about the music business and what it's like to compose and sing classical music in the 21st century."

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"Once I have a seed, I can use "tricks" I learned in music theory to grow the idea."

When I have an idea for a project, I sit down and think about the emotion or words that inspired me. I let my mind go a little fuzzy and wait for a musical idea. That is the magical moment, the part I can't describe. Once I have a seed, I can use "tricks" I learned in music theory to grow the idea. I turn that seed inside out and upside down. I can chop it up and sew it back together until I have something that starts to look like music. And then I edit it. And edit. And edit some more. 

Excerpt from Rest days and talking about the indescribable

THE BLOG

Photo by Elizabeth McQuern

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