C. Bryan Rulon

(1952-2015) American composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in Europe and North America. Mr. Rulon studied piano in Indiana as a child. He studied composition and electronic music with John Eaton, Frederick A. Fox and Bernhard Heiden at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1972–80, where he received his BM in composition and his double MM with distinction in composition and electronic music. He later studied at Princeton University and there earned his PhD in composition in 1995. Among his honours are First Prize at the National College Dance Festival (1984, for his dance music to Corporate Whimsy), the Harvey Gaul Prize from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (1988), finalist in the competition Olympia in Athens (1990), a fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), a commission from the Fromm Foundation (1995), a commission from Chamber Music America (1996), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996). He was also active in other positions. He served as director of the Electronic Music Ensembles of Indiana University from 1977–80. He then co-founded with oboist Matt Sullivan the improvisational live-electronics duo, later a trio with double bassist William Kannar, First Avenue in New York, New York in 1982, which was later in residence at Princeton University. He taught as an associate instructor at Indiana University from 1977–80 and later taught at the Thurnauer School of Music in New Jersey from 1989–91 and at Princeton University in 1993–94.