VIVIAN ADELBERG RUDOW is a sound portrait painter whose music often portrays an aspect about life or an emotion. Composing music "for the people" while maintaining artistic integrity, Rudow's works receive enthusiastic responses from audiences.

Equally comfortable with live acoustic and electronic sounds, Adelberg Rudow's music ranges from solo tape, to full live orchestra in styles of music needed for the expression, ranging from completely tonal to abstract.

MM Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University 1979, Vivian Adelberg Rudow, won First Prize in the 1986 14th International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges, program division, for WITH LOVE, a fantasy for live cello & decorated cello cases, (prepared tape). It received straight 10's.

Vivian Adelberg Rudow recently received notice of her 18th ASCAP award.

Review quotes for CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO, an excerpt from PORTRAITS OF LAWYERS, formerly The Velvet Hammers, on a CD from Russia, "Electroacoustic Music Vol. IX"/Electroshock": All-Music Guide, Canada, Francois Couture
“Vivian Adelberg Rudow’s piece .... makes it a vivid and repeat-worthy listening experience.”“ ....this piece is outstanding, marvelous!” “WMUA 91.1 FM” (USA), program “Martian Gardens”, DJ Max Shea.

So far in 2004, Vivian Adelberg Rudow’s music CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO, on CD "Electroacoustic Music Vol. IX"/Electroshock" Artemiy Artemiev producer, Russia, has been performed on Radio 28 times among the countries Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Great Britain, Macedonia, Russia, Spain, The Netherlands, USA.

Other 2004 radio performances include Adelberg Rudow’s LAMENT, USA and WITH LOVE, Russia.

She recently received an ASCAP notice that Israeli radio performed her music Cuban Lawyer, Lament, Lavender, Rebecca’s Song, Weeping Rocker, and With Love during the 2002-2003 concert season.

During the 2002/03/04 concert seasons Adelberg Rudow’s RACING INSIDE THE MILKYWAY, on the CD "Electroacoustic Music. Vol. VIII"/Electroshock, Artemiy Artemiev producer, Russia, was performed on the radio 12 times among the countries Australia, USA, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, and Belgium.

Frances Richard, director of ASCAP's symphony & concerts departments spoke about Rudow in The Baltimore Sunday Sun, August 14, 1994, saying, "She has created a catalog of work we applaud."

First Prize recipient in the International Double Reed Society Composition Contest, solo division in 1977, for KADDISH solo bassoon, Rudow's FORCE III was the first orchestral work by a Maryland composer performed in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, December, 1982, Sergiu Comissiona conducting.

Rudow was a Juror for the Jeu de temps March 2001 Times Play, YSEA competition for CEC, Canadian Electroacoustic Community, Concordia University; NAACP ACTSO, Competition for 1986, 1989, 1991, other years, 2001, Baltimore

She wrote an article to be published soon, "Music Management "for WOMEN AND MUSIC IN AMERICA SINCE 1900: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, and an article published on the WOW'EM internet composer site for young people, "How do I use the computer as a creative process" .

Rudow is developing a New art form for dissemination of sound by conducting music on 4 CD players LIVE on stage via two small hand held remote controllers. You may see her performance of her own music, VARIATIONS OF VARIATIONS, XI, CUBAN LAWYER, JUAN BLANCO, Kennedy Center Millennium stage, Washington, DC, August 13, 2001 on the Kennedy Center web site under archives. *See www.kennedycenter.com, Scroll to Millennium stage, Find archive August 13, 2001, Sonic Circuits program, Rudow is wearing red and is the next to last performance on the Sonic Circuits program. Her sound begins near 7th dot from right on RealPlayer. The premiere was in Havana, Cuba 2000.

Rudow founded, & is artistic producer/director/conductor of Res MusicAmerica, Inc., an organization of high quality performers that presented 283 music works mainly by American living composers in concerts that delighted their full house audiences, plus 26 symposia and 22 youth concerts from 1980-91, produced in 1988, an International Electroacoustic Music Festival during which composers from 14 different countries attended.

Rudow's music has been performed in Asia, Canada, Cuba, Eastern Europe, France, Holland, Puerto Rico, Spain, South Africa & the United States.

WITH LOVE is on an honors compact disc from France CULTURES ELECTRONIQUES 3 LDC 278046/47 on the LE CHANT DU MONDE, Harmonia Mundi Label, with the winners of the 16th annual award winners, 1988. It is also available from the composer.

Some quotes follow. "LOOKING FOR A MOTHER'S day gift?... play Vivian Rudow's With Love. It'll make your mother happy, and maybe affect you even more deeply." Keyboard Magazine, Robert L. Doerschuk, May 1989, Paula Skolnick-Virizlay, cello "poignant, whimsical, deeply musical and outrageously entertaining." WITH LOVE Craig Hultgren, cello The Birmingham News, Birmingham Alabama, Nancy Raabe, October 8, 1996

"... The climatic work of the evening was "With Love" by Baltimore composer, Vivian Adelberg Rudow-a witty, hectic and quite surreal look at modern motherhood..."The Washington Post, Washington, DC., Joseph McLellan, November 20, 1986, Lori Barnet, cello,

"...the power of the original music/sound score by Vivian Adelberg Rudow, make the piece work." Business Record, The Dance Scene, November 26, 1993

WEEPING ROCKER: electronic score for dance, Nancy Wanach- Romita, choreographer "...But it was an instrumental piece "Americana Revisited (Crossover Variations), that provided the most entertainment." St Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, St. Paul Minnesota, Roy M. Close, Nov. 14, 1986, Minnesota Composers Forum Concert AMERICANA VISITED VARIATIONS:

CONTACT:VIVIAN ADELBERG RUDOW 211 Goodwood Gardens Baltimore, Maryland 21210-2531 USA Phone: 410-889-3939 Fax: 410-889-0610 e-mail: VivianAR@AOL.COM