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DMA - Peabody Conservatory of Music
MM - Eastman School of Music
BM - San Jose State University
teaching specialties Piano
www.neilrutman.net
www.ucaboxing.com
Neil Rutman is Artist in Residence in Piano. A native of
California, Mr. Rutman has distinguished himself as a top prize winner in
several international competitioins including the Busoni, Kapell,
Casadesus, Joanna Hodges, New York City's Concert Artist Guild, and the
Washington D.C. International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, where
he was given the top prize for his performance of the Goldberg
Variations. Mr. Rutman has received awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts, a grant for Artistic Excellence from the Astral
Foundation to commission a piano concerti by American composer Albert
Glinsky. He has appeared in New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln
Center, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C., Tokyo's Bunka Kaikan, and has recently appeared as
soloist for the French Piano Institute and Cheltenham Festival.
Mr. Rutman has recorded several Mozart Piano Concerti on the ASV label,
and all Poulenc CD's, with Emmy Award winning actor, Tony Randall
providing the narration in 'The Story of Babar the Little
Elephant.' This last summer Mr. Rutman gave his Paris debut at the
Schola Cantorum, a tour of New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and
the Kingdom. Mr. Rutman studied with Aiko Onishi, Ellen Mack,
Cecile Genhart and Leon Fleisher and has degrees from the Eastman School
of Music and the Peabody Institute.
His students from UCA have won top prizes in the Clara Wells and the New
York City Concert Artist Guild International. Since 2001 a regular
member of national and international piano juries, he has authored
articles for The Piano Teacher, The Piano Quarterly, and Clavier.
A former collegiate boxer, Mr. Rutman also coaches the University of
Central Arkansas Boxing Club, which holds two yearly shows for local
charities.
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