Logan Rutledge
Logan Rutledge is a composer of contemporary classical music that hails from Gainesville, Florida. Rutledge holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he studied Composition with Marc Mellits. Rutledge has also studied privately with Christopher Theofanidis, Melinda Wagner, and Viet Cuong.
Rutledge’s compositions have been played and performed by members of the H2 Sax Quartet, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, L+M Duo, Lakeshore Rush Ensemble, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Beo String Quartet, Kaleidoscope Mus Art, Project Fusion, among others. In the winter of 2017, Rutledge won a Merit Award from the Tribeca New Music Composition Competition. In the spring of 2017, Rutledge received a performance of “Out of My League” for two Soprano Saxophones by the Fulcrum Point New Music Project in Chicago, Illinois as a feature on the Emerging Artists Series. In the summer of 2017, Rutledge was named a Composition Fellow at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, work-shopping a new commission for Oboe Quartet and studying under Donald Crockett. In September of 2018, Rutledge’s Stretch Marks was selected to be performed as part of the Kaleidoscope Mus Art Odyssey Series, and in November of 2018, Rutledge was selected as the winner of the graduate division of the University of Miami in house Ensemble Ibis Composition Competition. Rutledge’s work There was nothing to say, and we said nothing. was selected by the Limitless Collective’s call for scores to be performed on their 2020-2021 season.
Rutledge has been fortunate to have commissions from such ensembles as the Nomad Quartet, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Percussion ensemble, Miami University Bassoon Quartet, Smax Duo, the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, and fivebyfive. Current commissions include a duet for Oboist/English Hornist Daniel McTiernan, Rodney Dorsey and the Indiana University Wind Ensemble, and the Kontra Duo.
Rutledge earned his Master’s at the University of Miami’s Frost School of music studying under Charles Norman Mason and is working on their Doctorate at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music studying under Don Freund and P.Q. Phan.