California Choral Directors Association
  • Home
  • Membership
    • Member Spotlight
    • Regions >
      • Northern
      • Bay Area
      • Central
      • Central Coast
      • Southern
      • Far South
  • Events
    • CASMEC >
      • Register
    • ECCO >
      • ECCO Headliners
      • ECCO Sessions
      • ECCO Information
      • Heussenstamm Choral Composition Competition >
        • Choral Composition
    • Honor Choir >
      • General Info
      • Central & Coastal
      • All-State
      • SCVA HS
      • Donate
    • ACDA Conferences >
      • National
      • Western Division
  • Cantate
    • Sponsorship
    • Previous Issues
  • Resources
    • CCDA Classifieds
    • Howard Swan Award
    • Repertoire & Resources
    • Vision for the Future >
      • Dr. Charles C. Hirt Scholarship
      • Choral Equity Scholarship
      • Creativity Grant
      • CCDA-CASMEC Awards
      • ECCO Scholarship
      • Dr. William Hall ECCO Scholarship
    • Webinar Sessions
  • About
    • About CCDA
    • Directory
    • Executive Admin
  • Donate

howard S. swan award 

At the CCDA January Board Meeting, two candidates are nominated for the Swan Award. These names are submitted and voted upon by the past presidents. At the time of the nomination, the candidates are to be retired from full-time conducting, having spent the major portion of careers in California.
About The Howard S. Swan Award

1989 Swan Award Winner: Rudy Saltzer

12/28/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Rudy Saltzer describes himself as a conductor, violinist, lecturer, singer, and crippled piano player: one of the keyboard challenged. He was born in Los Angeles, a small town in southern California in 1922, the year of his birth. Rudy was introduced to music at the age of five, when he started lessons on a 1/4-size violin.

After two years of college interrupted his education, he joined the Navy in WW II, and mastered the use and maintenance of an exotic secret weapon ~ Radar ~ at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. He loved San Francisco and vowed to one day make his home in the Bay Area. Upon graduation, he was deployed to the Pacific and served on a specialized tanker for three years. Late in the war, he received his officer’s commission, whereupon the Japanese surrendered.
​
He returned home to complete his studies at UCLA. After graduation he performed as a professional violinist and taught choral music in high schools and junior college. Concurrently, his appointment as assistant conductor of the Roger Wagner Chorale launched his professional choral conducting career. He later formed his own ensemble, which performed in the renowned Monday Evening Concert Series with Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, as well as in theater, movies and TV.

Rudy earned his Doctorate in music from the USC School of Music, cum laude, and taught at Cal State Hayward, thus enabling him to keep his vow to return to the Bay Area, his home ever since. He was Professor Emeritus at Cal State East Bay until he passed away in April 2015.

He has conducted and lectured as a guest professor at more than a dozen colleges and universities, including Arizona State at Tempe, Brigham Young University, St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, Roosevelt University in Chicago, U.C. Berkeley, and the Fromm Institute at USF.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    September 2022
    December 2021

    Categories

    All
    1985
    1986
    1987
    1988
    1989
    1990
    1991
    1992
    1993
    1994
    1995
    1996
    1997
    1998
    1999
    2000
    2001
    2002
    2003
    2004
    2005
    2006
    2007
    2008
    2009
    2010
    2011
    2012
    2013
    2014
    2015
    2016
    2017
    2018
    2019
    2020
    2021
    2022

    RSS Feed

CALIFORNIA CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
#CALIFORNIASINGS

© 2013-2023 CCDA. All rights reserved.
Members
  • Home
  • Membership
    • Member Spotlight
    • Regions >
      • Northern
      • Bay Area
      • Central
      • Central Coast
      • Southern
      • Far South
  • Events
    • CASMEC >
      • Register
    • ECCO >
      • ECCO Headliners
      • ECCO Sessions
      • ECCO Information
      • Heussenstamm Choral Composition Competition >
        • Choral Composition
    • Honor Choir >
      • General Info
      • Central & Coastal
      • All-State
      • SCVA HS
      • Donate
    • ACDA Conferences >
      • National
      • Western Division
  • Cantate
    • Sponsorship
    • Previous Issues
  • Resources
    • CCDA Classifieds
    • Howard Swan Award
    • Repertoire & Resources
    • Vision for the Future >
      • Dr. Charles C. Hirt Scholarship
      • Choral Equity Scholarship
      • Creativity Grant
      • CCDA-CASMEC Awards
      • ECCO Scholarship
      • Dr. William Hall ECCO Scholarship
    • Webinar Sessions
  • About
    • About CCDA
    • Directory
    • Executive Admin
  • Donate