Edward Ruchalski

Professor Ruchalski is the Director of Music at Le Moyne College. He teaches courses in Western history, the concept album and music theory. He also teaches an interdisciplinary course, Neurons & Notes, and a freshman seminar, Hollers to Hip-hop. He is the Director of the Rock Ensemble and he also advises students in the Music Minor.

Ruchalski is a composer and sound artist. He has been commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Helen Boatwright, and Syracuse’s Society for New Music, among others. His music has been performed by the Buffalo Guitar Quartet, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Robert Black, Shiau-uen Ding, Stephen Porter, and others. His compositions have been performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Mass MOCA, Miller Theatre, Symphony Space on Broadway, the Festival of Miami, Harvard University, Yale University, Kirk in the Hills in Detroit, the Everson Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Ruchalski’s composition, “Winter Light,” is included on the Innova recording Serendipity, and his arrangement of Radio Head’s “Street Spirit” is included on Endeavor Classics’ recording of pianist Andrew Russo’s Mix Tape.

Ruchalski’s Refined Localities has been included as part of a major exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain and is permanently archived at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain. His two-year artist residency at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park culminated in a multimedia solo show, Pond Songs: Recordings and Photographs of Green Frogs and Aquatic Insects. Ruchalski has been an artist in residence at Wave Farm in Acra, N.Y. During the residency, he created a concept for a radio show with co-host Stephen Bradley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, called Bells, Bugs, Whispers & Plinks. The show, which features original works, airs on WGXC 90.7 FM.

Education:

• B.F.A., SUNY Fredonia
• M.M., University of Miami