Cellist Clay Ruede has appeared as a soloist in North America and Europe and participates in a variety of ensembles that reflect an involvement with almost every aspect of contemporary musical life. He has performed with ensembles as diverse as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the contemporary music ensemble Speculum Musicae, and was the cellist in the Arden Trio for 25 years. Mr. Ruede served for over a decade as principal cellist for both City Center’s Encores Orchestra and the American Theater Orchestra, as well as Garrison Keilor’s ‘Coffee Club’ orchestra for performances, broadcasts, and recordings of classic American music. A prominent member of New York City’s recording industry, Clay can be heard in film scores for Spike Lee’s and the Disney Studios’ films, and has recorded for the eminent film composers Ennio Moricone and Elmer Bernstein. Mr. Ruede has recorded the complete Beethoven Sonatas, the Caprices and Etudes for solo cello of August Franchomme, piano trios of Ravel, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Arthur Foote and Evan Ziporyn, and works of the composers Milton Babbitt, Philip Glass, and Stephen Sondheim. He is currently preparing a recording of the complete sonatas of the French post-impressionist composer Joseph Guy Ropartz as part of his exploration of composers of the Belle Epoque. He has performed as both a soloist and an ensemble player for recordings and broadcasts that feature the singers Marilyn Horne, Barbara Streisand, Thomas Hampson, Emmylou Harris, Bjork, the Back Street Boys, Jewel, and Billy Joel, jazz artists Stanley Turrentine, Chico O’Farrell, and David Liebman, and the groups Smashing Pumpkins and Blues Traveler. Mr. Ruede can be heard as the solo cellist in the late filmmaker Robert Altman’s film, ‘The Company,’ performing Richard Rogers’ ‘My Funny Valentine.’
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Recent Posts
- A Comparison of Nine 10mm Cello Endpins
- A Question Answered, “Who were the most important teachers to you?”
- Updated String Tension Chart
- A demonstration of the Thomastik Versum and Versum Solo strings for cello
- A Demonstration of the HEIMU H800 instrument mic on the cello
- A Comparison of Three endpins
- 2 microphone demonstrations
- Beethoven’s Sonatas for Piano and Cello
- Wolf Tones
- Weight Training
- Vibrato
- Vegh and Janigro
- Strings
- Stradivari Cellos
- Shifting
- Practicing
- Popper’s Etudes
- Pizzicato
- Aldo Parisot
- Fingerings
- Rock/Jazz/Improv/Alt Cellists (Not a comprehensive list)
- Intonation
- Interpretation
- Interesting Cello Related Articles
- Some Historic Performances of Important Orchestral Repertoire for Cello
- Finding a Teacher
- Clefs
- Cello Terminology and Building Technique
- The Cello on Broadway
- My Cello Lineage
- Cellists Who Worked in the NYC Studios
- Cellists Old and New
- Some Interesting Interviews
- Buying a Cello
- Bridges (and Pegs)
- Bowing Techniques
- Bow Info
- Bow Hold
- Books About the Cello
- Bach and Some Modern Understandings of the Baroque
- Amplified and Electric Cello
- American Luthiers