Composer, Music Director, Musician, Playwright, Lyricist
Associate Composer-Canadian Music Centre
The Canadian League of Composers
Canadian Aboriginal Music Award-Toronto-2008
Playwrights Guild of Canada
The Healing Heart of the First People of this land– The Seattle Symphony–Mark Taper Auditorium 2006-“You have just heard a masterpiece“- Maestro Gerard Schwarz.
“Ruddell’s music is awesome…beautiful..exquisite, Ruddell writes gloriously for the voice…orchestrations as lush as Bruckner…the Death movement had the somber radiance of a Bach motet.”– The Vancouver Sun
“Ruddell’s music is uplifting…exhilarating… hypnotic… propulsive… sublime. moments of pure divinity…full of colour and variety…rhythmic surges that Frank Zappa or Igor Stravinsky would have been happy to claim…a breakout hit.”– The Georgia Strait
Hello! Thank you for landing on my site. Here’s what I am up to right now.
The Five Seasons
The Five Seasons project was awarded a grant from the Gail O’Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund. This generous grant will fund a workshop and presentation of an abridged version of the full length work on May 31, 2024.
Many thanks to Jon O’Riordan, The Gail O’Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund and The Victoria Foundation for the funding .
The Five Seasons-abridged presentation will include six singers, an orchestra of ten players and dancers. It will be directed by Michael Shamata, Artistic Director of The Belfry Theatre and choreographed by Paul Destrooper, Artistic Director of Ballet Victoria.
The creation of The Five Seasons was made possible by a very generous gift from internationally celebrated Haidaartist, composer, singer and dancerRobert Davidson and an award from The Canada Council for the Arts-Music Division
The Plague Diaries is a new music/theatre (lyric drama) creation funded by the Music Division of The Canada Council. The work is inspired by Shakespeare’s isolation periods in London during the plague outbreaks and the political and social upheavals of the late 1500,s in London, England: “The plague was caused by sin and sin is caused by plays.”
A grand adventure!
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Bruce
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Image and photo of The Raven screen by Gwaai Edenshaw. It is the front screen for my music theatre piece Beyond Eden. Red carpet photo by Melissa Ponder, Seattle.
About Bruce
Bruce Ruddell is a composer, musician, arranger, conductor, playwright and music producer.