Name Sharon Ruchman | Role Music composer | |
Albums A Bit of Tango and More.... | ||
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Sharon Ruchman (born 1949) is an American classical music composer and musician. Ruchman's works have been performed on Connecticut Style on WTNH, channel 8 in Connecticut, at the National Composers Association in San Francisco, the Hartford Women Composers Festival, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, and Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Connecticut.
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Early life
Ruchman was born in New York. Her great uncle was violinist Rudolph Fuchs, who in the 1920s debuted in Steinway Hall, played for President Calvin Coolidge and was a concertmaster on KMTR in Los Angeles.
Ruchman began her musical career at age 5, composing tunes as she played piano. She began taking piano lessons at age 8. Throughout her childhood, Ruchman studied voice, dance and cello. One of her teachers was Juilliard School of Music's Rosetta Goodkind.
In high school, Ruchman developed her voice and performed in high school recitals and plays. By her junior year, she was chosen to sing with the All-County Chorus in Nassau County, All-State Chorus in New York and the All-Eastern Chorus, performed in Boston.
Education
She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and was both singer and pianist for the Conservatory choir under Lorna Cooke DeVaron. In 1971 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education degree.
Ruchman then attended the Yale School of Music, earning her Master of Music degree in 1973. She was a soloist in the “Mozart Requiem” with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. She sang in other Yale performances and was chosen to participate in the Yale Summer School opera program in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Composer
Ruchman taught music for many years thereafter while raising a family and following a career in singing. In 2006, she returned to Yale School of Music and studied composition with professor and composer Orianna Webb. In 2007 Ruchman began composing steadily, and since 2009 has produced at least one album each year. She composes original classical music for solo instrumentation and chamber ensembles.
Discography
Songs
Arrival Of Spring
Awakening: III
Awakening: II
Day at Play
Milonga for Piano and Cello in A Minor
Flute and Piano Duet - Op 3: I Andante
Memoria Dolci
Mystere for Piano in E-Flat Minor
Piece for Cello and Piano: II
Cello and Piano Sonata In E Minor - Op 4: I Andante
String Quartet in F Sharp Minor - Op 1: II
Translucence: II
Trio for Violin - Cello and Piano in G Minor - Op 14: II Adagio
Hope: I Andante
Variations On A Theme In F for Cello and Piano: VI Largo
Trio In F Minor
Promise: II
Days End
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor - Op 7: II Adagio
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Sharp Minor - Op 8: I Andante
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor - Op 7: I Andante
Variations On A Theme In F for Cello and Piano: III Allegretto
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major - Op 12: I Larghetto
Variations On A Theme In F for Cello and Piano: V Moderato
Duet for Flute and Cello in D Minor - Op 11: II Andante
Piece for Cello and Piano: I
Piano Sonata in B Flat Major - Op 10: I Andante
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major - Op 12: III Allegretto
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Sharp Minor - Op 8: III Allegretto
Piano Sonata in B Flat Major - Op 10: III Allegretto
Cello and Piano Sonata In E Minor - Op 4: II Adagio
Lament: I