Glenn L. Rudolph Featured Composer

Mr. Rudolph joined the Pittsburgh Camerata in 1993, and served as Assistant Conductor to Gayle Kirkwood for the 1994-95 concert season. Mr. Rudolph graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati where he received his bachelors degree in Composition. He was awarded a graduate scholarship in Composition and a teaching assistantship in Music Theory. He has studied composition with Paul Cooper and T. Scott Huston in Cincinnati, and Joseph W. Jenkins in Pittsburgh.

Mr. Rudolph has been employed as tenor soloist at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and is currently a member of the solo quartet at Temple Rodef Shalom. He is also the Music Director at Grace United Methodist Church in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania. While at Trinity Cathedral, he served as Composer-in-Residence writing numerous anthems, masses, and canticles for the Cathedral Choir. Mr. Rudolph's works have been published by GIA, Inc. and Oxford University Press. Two of Mr. Rudolph's choral works, Veiled In Darkness and Dicite!, can be heard on The Pittsburgh Camerata's Christmas CD, A Christmas Mosaic.

In recent years, Mr. Rudolph has been commissioned to compose several major works. The Pittsburgh Camerata commissioned Mr. Rudolph to compose a choral setting of the Wallace Stevens poem, Peter Quince at the Clavier. The work received its world premiere performances during the choir's 1995-96 concert season, and can be heard on the Camerata's newest CD, Of Modern Invention: American Choral Music. In 1997, Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan commissioned Mr. Rudolph to write The Faith That We Have Sown, a festival anthem commemorating their 50th anniversary. The Pittsburgh Concert Chorale has also commissioned Mr. Rudolph to compose Festival Te Deum for chorus and orchestra, to be premiered during their 1998-99 concert season.