American saxophonist Timothy Ruedeman is active as a soloist, collaborator, orchestral musician, and woodwind doubler. A vital part of New York City’s new music scene, he has performed with many of its première ensembles. He is a founding member of the new music ensemble Flexible Music and the Grammy-nominated New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, and can be heard on recordings for the Naxos, Capstone, Bridge, Albany, New Focus, Ravello, CcnC, and Allegro labels. He has given the premieres of over sixty new works and has collaborated closely with established and emerging composers including Louis Andriessen, Lukas Foss, Eric Ewazen, and Nico Muhly, to name a few. Equally at home in commercial and jazz music Dr Ruedeman has toured and recorded with Tony Bennett, The Cars, Todd Rundgren, Diana Krall, Christopher Cross, Denny Laine of Wings, Paul Shaffer, and The Walkmen.
In addition to performing, Dr Ruedeman is an active researcher and scholar and has presented research for the American Musical Instrument Society, New York Performing Arts Library, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and Nicholas Roerich Museum as part of his ongoing research and performance project Entartete Musik: Music and Composers Suppressed by the Third Reich. He serves on the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College – CUNY, and on the faculties of NYU and William Paterson University. He holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and New York University.
October 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Village Voices