Vita

Jakob Georg Ruderer's repertoire reaches from the Wiener Klassik and the Romanticism to contemporary, experimental and electronic music. The element of composition and improvisation is a very important part in his concerts, too.

In his recitals, he combines literature from the Baroque to New Music with his own partly totally free and partly composed improvisations on the prepared piano. He also performed this concept with other musicians in concerts. Additionally, Jakob talks about the music that is being performed to give the audience the possibility for a better understanding of the works and a deepened way of listening.

Furthermore, he maintains contact with living composers such as Werner Heider, Peter Michael Hamel and specialists in the field of contemporary music like Roger Woodward, Vicki Ray, Anthony de Mare and performed with musicians such as pianist and luminary Ursula Oppens.

Jakob Georg Ruderer teaches music history and theory at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. In 2019, Jakob Georg Ruderer worked as an editor and program designer for the music department at the Bavarian Public Broadcasting, BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk).

The young artist has been invited repeatedly to live broadcasts as well as studio and live recordings i.e. by the Bavarian Public Broadcasting and the Northern German Broadcasting (NDR Kultur, Northern German Broadcasting) and to concerts in Europe and the United States, among others into concert halls such as the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the Prinzregententheater, the Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz and the Knuth Hall in San Francisco.

He received several advancement awards and honors including the cultural prize Johannes von Tepl, the advancement award for Music of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (Sudeten German Homeland Association). In 2014, he was awarded a Fulbright grant and in 2015 a Manhattan School of Music scholarship for further studies in the United States of America.

Jakob Georg Ruderer was born in Munich and had his first piano lessons at the age of seven with pianist and pedagogue Monika Weiß. His public debut followed one year after.
Subsequently he studied at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre in the class of Prof. Bernd Zack.
He continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City with Anthony de Mare, Margaret Kampmeier and Christopher Oldfather and earned his Master of Music degree in 2017.
In addition to his studies he also worked and had master classes among others with Hans Leygraf, Peter Feuchtwanger, Franz Massinger, Sheila Arnold, Bernd Glemser and Ragna Schirmer.
In addition to his piano studies, Jakob Georg Ruderer pursued a musicology program at the City University of New York which he completed with honors in 2019.

In 2010 Jakob Ruderer co-founded the piano music festival '88Tasten+ Next Generation Piano Music' in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany, whose opening concert he performed. The first season was a great success; therefore, it was continued annually until 2015.

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