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Recent Major Performances (selected)


November 2007: Roulette, New York - Concert residency -Go: Organic Orchestra: 30 woodwind, brass, string and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph

October 2007 - Kyoto Japan, Buddhist Temple - Hu: Vibrational

October 2007 - Interpretations Series, NYC - Wildflowers Duo

May 2007: Percpan International Percussion Festival, Brazil, – Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia

December 2006: International Percussion Festival, Taiwan

December 2006: Roulette, New York - Go: Organic Orchestra: 25 woodwind, string and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph

November 2006: Symphony Space, New York – Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Octet

October 2006: Tampere Jazz Festival, Finland – Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Quartet

May/June 2006: Go: Organic Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra - 10 night event – 20 to 30 woodwind, string and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph, Electric Lodge, Venice Ca.

April 2006: European Festival tour - Yusef Lateef Quartet Decemebr 2005: Vashti World Percussion Ensemble, Electric Lodge, Venice Ca.

October 2005: San Francisco Jazz Festival – Herbst Theatre - Yusef Lateef Quartet

October 1 – 23, 2005: The Stone performance hall – New York City - Curator and performer at “A Don Cherry Celebration”. Duo performances with Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake, Graham Haynes, Sylvie Courvasier, and presentation of “Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures” nine piece ensemble.

July 2005: Copenhagen Opera House – conducting and performing with New Jungle Orchestra

June 2005: Kristansand, Norway – Punkt Festival – Hu: Vibrational Percussion Ensemble

June 2005: Go: Organic Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra - 10 night event - 20 - 30 woodwind, string and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph, Electric Lodge, Venice Ca.

May 2005: Town Hall – New York City -Artistic Director and soloist at World Music Institute Benefit Concert – with Zakir Hussien, Simon Shaheen, Giovanni Hildalgo and others.

May 2005: Brooklyn Academy of Music – Sufi Music tour with Hamza El Din and Qawali groups. Featured soloist with Hassan Hakmoun – Gnawa music of Morocco.

October 2004: House of World Culture, Berlin - Black Atlantic / Congo Square. Performance with Omar Sosa and Joseph Bowie and collaborations with musicians from Africa and South America

September 2004: Sao Paulo and Campinas, Brazil, - Ritmos De Terra - International Percussion Festival with Handsonsemble, Swapan Chaduri, Srinivasin Poolvar, Houman Pourmedhi

August 2004: Belo Horizonte, Brazil - International Percussion Festival, guest soloist and teacher

June 2004: Festival D’Essaouira, Morocco: Performances in collaboration with Hassan Hakmoun of the Gnawa (African Sufi Brotherhood)

June 2004: Go: Organic Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra; 25 woodwind and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph, Electric Lodge, Venice Ca.

April 2004: Atlanta Jazz Festival - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo

March 2004: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Duet concert with Omar Sosa

December 2003: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – Festival Mercado, collaboration with musicians from Mali, Bahia and United States. Concerts and recording

March 2003: Go: Organic Orchestra, 25 woodwind and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph. Guest artists: Yusef Lateef, Bennie Maupin. Electric Lodge, Venice Ca.

May 2003: Capetown Jazz Festival, South Africa - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo

November 2002: San Francisco Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Center - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo –

April 2002: Graz, Austria - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo

February 2002: Barbican Concert Hall, London -Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo
1994 – 2002: Europe and North America - Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures with Butoh dancer Oguri –extensive concert and festival appearances

June 2002: Summer Solstice Concert Series, Electric Lodge – Produced by Adam Rudolph with Wildflowers Duo with Oguri, Adam Rudolph Electro-acoustic Trio, Organic Chamber Ensemble, Wadada Leo Smith & Adam Rudolph Duo

June 2001: Vision Festival, NYC Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures with Butoh dancer Oguri. Funding from Durfee Foundation
1996 – 2002: Europe and North America - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo - extensive concert and festival appearances

March 2002: Go: Organic Orchestra, 22 woodwind and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph. Guest artist: Karen Elaine Bakunan. Electric Lodge,Venice, Ca.

February 2001: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Percussion soloist, "The African-American Epic Suite" composed by Yusef Lateef.

December 2001: Vashti International Percussion Group (from Bali, Java, Iran, India, Africa, Lebanon, USA) composed and led by Adam Rudolph. Los Angeles Winter Solstice performance.

November 2001: Organic Orchestra, 25 woodwind and percussion performers. Composed and conducted by Adam Rudolph. Guest artists: Saul Williams, Dwight Tribble, and James Newton.

February 2000: Lincoln Center, NYC - performance of Beyond The Sky Octet composed by Adam Rudolph & Yusef Lateef.

1998 - 2001: Festival D’Essaouira, Morocco: Music Curator and performer of concerts with Gnawa (African Sufi Brotherhood) music groups. Funded in part by Arts International. Additional touring for USA State Department in Morocco.

February 1999: Lincoln Center, NYC with Pharaoh Sanders.

June 1999: Producer and Curator: Bootstrap: Creative Emergence Festival, Presenting over 70 improvising and world musicians performed in 5 concerts over 3 days to sold out houses. Electric Lodge, Venice, CA.

November 1999: San Francisco Jazz Festival, Grace Cathedral - Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Duo

July 1998: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Joel Levi, conductor. Percussion soloist - USA premier "The African-American Epic Suite" by Yusef Lateef.

October 1998: Merkin Hall, NYC. East coast Premiers of “12 Arrows” composed by Adam Rudolph, performed by Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures with Butoh dancer Oguri.

November 1998: Earshot Festival, Seattle. West coast Premiers of “12 Arrows” composed by Adam Rudolph, performed by Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures with Butoh dancer Oguri.

June 1997: Verona Jazz Festival, Italy "The World at Peace.” Co-composed with Yusef Lateef for 12 musicians.

June 1997: Bologna Jazz Festival, Italy - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures

January 1997: Museum of Man, Toronto - African Troubadours with: Foday Musa Suso, James Makubya & Hassan Hakmoun

June 1996: Town Hall, NYC - African Troubadours with: Foday Musa Suso, James Makubya & Hassan Hakmoun

July 1996: Vancouver Folk Music Festival - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures and Hassan Hakmoun

July 1995: California Institute of the Arts - Premiere of "The Dreamer" an original Opera by Adam Rudolph

June 1995: World premiere "The World at Peace" commissioned by Meet the Composer/Rockefeller/ AT&T Jazz Program, Los Angeles. Co-composed with Yusef Lateef for 12 musicians

November 1993: Kolner Rundfunk Orchester - David de Villiers, conductor. Featured soloist in World premiere "The African-American Epic Suite" by Yusef Lateef,

Fall 1994: African Troubadours tour: percussionist with: Foday Musa Suso, James Makubya, & Hassan Hakmoun West Coast, USA,

June 1993: Verona Jazz Festival, Italy "Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures"

July 1993: Tokyo Summer Festival with L.Shankar

Fall 1993: Los Angeles Festival - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures & Vashti International Percussion Group composed and led by Adam Rudolph. Commissioned by Los Angeles Festival.

October1992: Symphony Space, New York "Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures" concert debut w. guests Yusef Lateef & L.Shankar

December 1992: Santa Monica Museum - "Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures" with Ali Jihad Racy
1990, 91 & 93: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbon and Porto, Portugal,

March 1991: Town Hall, New York - World Premiere of "Terra Suite" with Eternal Wind

1990: Festival Delle Colline, Florence, Italy with Don Cherry & Hassan Hakmoun

1990 and 1991: Moers International Festival, Germany with Don Cherry & Hassan Hakmoun

1990: Ravinia Festival, Chicago: World Premiere of "Double Concerto II" co-composed with Yusef Lateef

November 1989: Phillips Innovation Festival, Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil with Jon Hassel

January 1989: Festival Arte Electronica, Carnerino, Italy, with Jon Hassel

1989: Contemporary Music Festival, Los Angeles, World Premiere of "Double Concerto" co-composed with Yusef Lateef

1989 through 1993: Symphony Space, NYC - Musical Coordinator and percussionist for "A World of Percussion", with Zakir Hussain, Nana Vasconcelos, Ed Blackwell, Big Black.

1989: The World Financial Center, New York with Jon Hassel and Brian Eno

1987 & 1988: Concert appearance with Don Cherry. New York & Los Angeles

1988 – 2003: Concert appearances with Hassan Hakmoun

November 1988: Italian tour with Jon Hassel

Spring 1988: Midwest tour of Eternal Wind

July 1988: Symphony Space, NYC with Yusef Lateef and Eternal Wind

 


Performances with

Don Cherry
L. Shankar (India)
Jon Hassel
Yusef Lateef
Pharoah Sanders
Foday Musa Suso (The Gambia)
Hassan Hakmoun (Morocco)
Badal Roy (India)
Wadada Leo Smith
Oliver Lake
Kevin Eubanks
James Newton
Ahmed Bakbou (Morocco)
Lester Bowie
Jihad Racy (Lebanon)
Fred Anderson
Sam Rivers
I Nyoman Wenten (Indonesia)
Joseph Jarman
Big Black
Sibiri Samke (Mali)
Mahmoud Guinea (Morocco)
Brahim Belkane (Morocco)
Bennie Maupin
Cheik Tijane Seck (Mali)
Arthur Blythe
Herbie Hancock
Braham Belkane (Morocco)
Eternal Wind
Joseph Jarman
Sylvie Courvasier
Graham Haynes



Performing Ensembles (current)

Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake and Brahim Fribgane

Go: Organic Orchestra

Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph Duo

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Quartet

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures Octet

The World At Peace by Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph, 12 piece ensemble

Wildflowers duo with Butoh Dancer Oguri

Pictures of Soul Duo and Trio with Omar Sosa and Joe Bowie

Vashti ( international percussion ensemble, musical director )

Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph (Gnawa music of Morocco)

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Discography


As Leader

Dream Garden - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures- Justin Time

Thought Forms - Go: Organic Orchestra - Meta/Ruby Red

Universal Mother - Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake - Soul Jazz

Compassion - Wadada Leo Smith and Adam Rudolph - Meta/Kabell

Vista - featuring Sam Rivers - Meta

Pictures of Soul - Omar Sosa and Adam Rudolph - Meta/Ota

Beautiful - Hu: Vibrational with Hamid Drake - Soul Jazz

In The Garden - Go: Organic Orchestra w. Yusef Lateef - Meta/YAL

Web of Light - Go: Organic Orchestra - Meta

Go: Organic Orchestra #1 - Meta

Hu: Vibrational w. Hamid Drake - Eastern Development

Beyond the Sky Octet w. Yusef Lateef - Meta/YAL

Spirits w. Pharoah Sanders & Hamid Drake - Meta/MAH

12 Arrows - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Meta

The Dreamer
(an original Opera) - Meta

The World at Peace for 12 Musicians composed by Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - Meta/YAL

Contemplations - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures- Meta

Skyway - Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures- Soul Note

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures- Flying Fish

Gift of the Gnawa, Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph - Flying Fish featuring special guest Don Cherry


 

With Yusef Lateef

Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph - 'Live in Seattle' - YAL

Live At The Luckman Auditorium - YAL

The African-American Epic Suite with Kolner Rundfunk Orchester - WDR/ACT

Live At Montreux - YAL

Chnops - YAL

Fantasia for Flute - YAL

Encounters - Atlantic

Heartvisions - YAL

Ballads - YAL

Woodwinds of Yusef Lateef & Ralph Jones - YAL


With Jon Hassel

City: Works of Fiction - Opal/Warner Brothers


With Herbie Hancock & Foday Musa Suso

Jazz Africa- Polygram


With Eternal Wind

Eternal Wind- Flying Fish

Terra Incognita - Flying Fish

Wasalu- Flying fish

With Hands On'Semble

Three
Hand'stan


With Foday Musa Suso & Mandingo Griot Society

Mandingo Griot Society featuring Don Cherry - Flying Fish Mighty Rhythm - Flying Fish
Watto Sitta featuring Herbie Hancock- Celluloid


Additional recordings on the Warner Brothers, Polydor, Atlantic, EMI, Capitol, Island, Polygram, Polydor, Windham Hill, Strata, Poet, Dharma, Flying fish, Moers, and Nessa record labels

 

Grants, Awards and Fellowships


Chamber Music America – New Works Grant – For composition and performance of new works for Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet

Subito - American Composers Forum – For performance of Vashti international percussion ensemble July 7 and 8, 2007

Durfee Foundation – support for New York premiere of Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet at Symphony Space November 2006, presented by World Music Institute.

LA Weekly Music Awards 2005 & 2003 – Best World Music Artist – Go: Organic Orchestra (Adam Rudolph conductor and artistic director)

Durfee Foundation – support for performances and musical director of “A Don Cherry Celebration” at The Stone performance space, New York City, October 1 – 23, 2005


Subito - American Composers Forum - For performance of Go: Organic Orchestra “The Open Door: Concerto for Orchestra” Spring 2004

Arts International –The fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals - to bring an ensemble to perform in collaboration with Gnawa master musicians Brahim Belkane, Ahmed Bakbou and Mahmoud Guinea at Festival d’Essaouira, Morocco 2001

Subito - American Composers Forum - For performance of Go: Organic Orchestra “In the Garden” with guest Yusef Lateef 2003

American Composers Forum - for World Premiere performance of Go: Organic
Orchestra with guest poet Saul Williams 2001

Arts International – The fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals - to bring an ensemble to perform in collaboration with Malian (Bambara) Hunter’s Griot Sibiri Samake and Gnawa master musicians Brahim Belkane, and Mahmoud Guinea at Festival d’Essaouira, Morocco 2000

Durfee Foundation – support for performance of Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures with Butoh dancer Oguri at Vision Festival, New York City 2000

Meet the Composer /Rockefeller Foundation/AT&T Commissioning Grant - for Composing “The World at Peace” with Yusef Lateef 1992

NEA Jazz Performance Grant - for performance of Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures At Symphony Space New York City 1992

Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Recording Grant - for recording Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures ensemble 1992

Luso-American Cultural Commission (Portugal) - for travel to perform in Lisbon 1990

Merit Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, 1986 – 1988

 

 

Teaching Positions


Esalen Institute 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005

Emmendingen, Frankfurt & Stuttgart, Germany -Instructor and Lecturer "Rhythm Intensive" July 1994

Occidental College, residency, fall 1994

California State Summer School for the Arts -Instructor and Lecturer in Improvisation and Composition, July1994, '95 &'96

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA -Instructor and Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Improvisation, 1988 - 1990

Creative Music Studios, Woodstock, NY -Instructor in World Music and Improvisation, 1981

American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, ILInstructor in Afro-Cuban Drumming, 1976

Urban Gateways Program, Chicago, IL Public Schools 1976-77

Publications


2006: “Pure Rhythm" - Rhythm Cycles and Polymetric Patterns for Instrumentalists, Percussionists, Composers and Music Educators” published by advance music, Germany

2006: Forward to “Another Avenue” by Yusef Lateef published by Vantage Press

2005: Forward to “The Gentle Giant” The Autobiograhpy of Yusef Lateef published by Morton books

2000: Parabola Magazine – Winter IssueForward “Music, the Language of the Heart”

1999: Preface to “123 Duets” by Yusef Lateef published by Fana Publishing

 

Education

Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, 1988
Studies in Ghanaian, Hindustani, Balinese musics, computer & electronic music, composition

Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1976
Major in Ethnomusicology. Studies in, percussion, electronic music and religion, music composition

Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 1977
Studies in Anlo Ewe and Blekete cult music

 

 

Instructors


African & Afro-Caribbean


Kobla and Alfred Ladzekpo, Emmanuel Kisdoe - Ewe, Ashanti, Ga and Dagomba drum ensembles of Ghana

Francis Awe - Dunndo (talking drum) of Yoruba people of Nigeria

Ladji Camara - Djembe drum of Malinke people of Guinea

Akin Davis, Luca Brandoli and Bill Summers - Bata drums of Yoruba culture of Cuba

Daniel Barrahanos - Conga drums of Cuba and Arara drums of Haiti

Big Black - African-American/Jazz Hand Drumming

 

North Indian Tabla


Pandit Taranath Rao - Farukabad Gharana (lineage/school)

Rancho Das Pandya - Delhi Gharana

Viswanath Misra - Benares Gharana

 

Composition

Dary John Mizelle - Analysis and Composition

Alan Chaplin - Composition and Orchestration

Peter Otto - Electronic Music Composition

Rule Beasley - Orchestration and Counterpoint

Jeff Rona - Midi-Electronics and Sampling

 
 


Performing Groups (traditional & non-western: 1976 - 1990)

Zadonu Ewe Music Ensemble (Kobla Ladzekpo, Director)

Francis Awe Yoruba Dunndo Ensemble

Tala Vadya North Indian Drum Ensemble (Pandit Taranath Rao, Director)

CalArts Balinese Gamelan (I. Nyoman Wenten, Director)

Chevere´ Afro-Cuban Percussion Ensemble

 





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