Biography
Rachel Rudich is an internationally known flutist specializing in contemporary music, repertoire with electronics, movement, and traditional, contemporary, and improvised music for shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flute. Ms. Rudich has worked with Masakazu Yoshizawa (Los Angeles), Bill Shozan Schultz (Los Angeles), Kaoru Kakizakai (Tokyo), Christopher Yohemei Blasdel (Tokyo), Yodo Kurahashi (Kyoto), and Riley Lee (Australia). She attended and performed at the World Shakuhachi Festivals in Sydney, Australia in 2008, Kyoto in 2012, and London in 2018, as well as the Rockies Shakuhachi Camp in Boulder, Colorado in 2009 through 2011, 2013 and 2017. After a performance at REDCAT, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times said, “the extended contributions by Rachel Rudich on shakuhachi were at once inventive and atmospheric.” As a flutist, she has premiered hundreds of new works and has performed extensively throughout the world as a soloist. Ms. Rudich has received numerous recording grants and can be heard on over 25 CDs on 15 labels. She received her DMA from the Manhattan School of Music, and her MA degree in Dance from University of California, and is currently Professor of Flute at California Institute of the Arts, and Lecturer at Pomona College. Ms. Rudich has studied shakuhachi since 2006, and spent two months in Japan during the spring of 2012 for extensive study of and performances on the shakuhachi, and more recently she visited Japan in 2018 for further research, study, and a Tokyo performance of pieces for shakuhachi and electronics by contemporary American composers. Ms. Rudich leads a beginning shakuhachi class and the Japanese Ensemble at CalArts and teaches private students in the Los Angeles area, and by Skype. More information can be found at www.rachelrudich.com.