C. Bryan Rulon
C. Bryan Rulon has received advanced music degrees from Indiana and Princeton Universities. At IU he served as Associate Instructor and Director of the Electronic Music Ensembles. He has taught courses on Minimalism and Mahler at New York's New School. He was invited to be guest curator at the OMI Artist colony in 2001 and has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
His compositions have won numerous awards including fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation as well as commissions from Chamber Music America, New York State Council on the Arts, the Fromm Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts among others. His music has been performed throughout the United States and as far afield as Japan, Europe, and Australia in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to the Miller Theater at Columbia University to dark, dingy performance spaces in the recesses of New York's Lower East Side. Mr. Rulon's works have been performed by world class ensembles including The New York New Music Ensemble, New Millennium Ensemble, Quintet of the Americas, the American Composers Orchestra, the Julliard New Music Ensemble, the EAR Unit and the Firebird Ensemble among others. His compositions have been recorded on CBS Records, Composers Recordings, Inc., Centaur Recordings, and Princeton Composers labels.
In 1982 to 2007 he was a founding member of First Avenue, an electro-acoustic improvisational ensemble working with actors, dancers, clowns, painters, performance artists, stage and lighting designers as well as internationally prominent and emerging composer/performers. First Avenue has performed in a wide variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, The Kitchen, the Knitting Factory and Roulette among others. In residence at Princeton University from 1991-96, they have also received numerous grants from NYSCA, NEA, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust and the Copland Fund.
