Education
BM Northwestern University
Courses Taught
Applied Saxophone
About
Jeremy Ruthrauff is a saxophonist, composer/improviser and teacher
based in the Chicago area active in the concert, jazz and experimental
music arenas.
Freelance work involves regular performances with numerous prominent
ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (including regular
concerts at Symphony Center, the MusicNow contemporary music series, and
performances at the summer Ravinia festival), Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Opera Theater, the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players
(Contempo), Eighth Blackbird, Fulcrum Point New Music Project and the
Chicago Saxophone Quartet.
He has given solo and chamber music performances at prestigious
venues throughout the United States and in Europe such as Merkin Hall in
New York City, the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Italy, the Ojai Music
Festival (guest artist with the Grammy award-winning ensemble Eighth
Blackbird), Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Harris Theater for
Music and Dance in Chicago, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, and the
Renaissance Society. He was recently featured as a soloist on the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s contemporary music concert series MusicNow
performing Jason Eckardt’s work Tangled Loops for soprano saxophone and
piano.
Jeremy has premiered numerous new works by leading composers,
including recently the world premiere of Jacob TV’s multimedia opera The
News with Fulcrum Point New Music Project as part of the Off the Wall
concert series at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
He has been invited to give master classes at leading institutions
such as the New England Conservatory of Music, American Composers’
Forum, University of Illinois, and others. Recently, he participated in
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s program Harmonia at the National
Museum of Mexican Art in which soloists introduced music to children
from Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.
www.jeremyruthrauff.com
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