Performer, conductor and composer, Jean
R Perrault is Director of Orchestras and professor of violin/viola at
the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).
Rudy coaches chamber music, conducts both the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras,
teaches violin and viola, string techniques and the fundamentals of conducting.
Born
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he earned his Master's degree in performance from
Temple University, under the tutelage
of Helen Kwalwasser. He moved to the New York area and became assistant conductor
of the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble while maintaining his post as Principal
Guest Conductor of the Holy
Trinity Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, Rudy has conducted numerous
ensembles, most recently the Sinfonietta
de Paris, the Karelia
State Conservatory Orchestra (Russia), the Conservatoire
de Paris région Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris, France), members of
the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory of Palermo (Sicily, Italy) and the Hacettepe
Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (Ankara, Turkey). He is a frequent panelist
on national and international, instrumental and conducting competitions, and
has participated in many prestigious music festivals including the International
Music Camp, Aspen, Tanglewood,
Chautauqua.
Rudy maintains an active schedule performing with many different organizations
including the U3 Piano Trio, the Duluth-Superior
Symphony in Duluth, the New
York Virtuosi, the New York Pops,
the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra,
the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia,
the Philadelphia Virtuosi,
the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the
Philly Pops and the Broadway show
"Beauty
and the Beast". The Chamber
Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Holy
Trinity Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the New
York City Housing Authority Orchestra have performed his compositions.
The past several years he has been editing and orchestrating the piano works
of Haitian Classical Composers. His most recent composition, "Exodus",
has been recorded by the Borromeo
String Quartet and can be heard on their "Living
Archives" label. He is now working on a duo for violin and cello
(Dialogues for Violin and Cello), a second String Quartet and a ballet
(Cérémonie Vodou). His latest radio interview can be
heard on the MN Artists
website. Rudy makes his home in Duluth, Minnesota, with his wife Elizabeth
and his two children Ella and Alexandre (a.k.a. Popo).
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