"A pioneer in world music" -The New York Times

"A Master Percussionist" -Musician Magazine

"A Percussion wizard" -Down Beat

Born in Chicago in 1955, composer and hand percussionist ADAM RUDOLPH has been in the vanguard of the development of cross-cultural improvisational music for over 20 years.
Rudolph has performed at festivals and concerts throughout North & South America, Europe, and Japan with Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, L. Shankar, Jon Hassel, Pharoah Sanders, and Hassan Hakmoun, among others. Rudolph is co-founder of the Eternal Wind ensemble, and, along with Foday Musa Suso, of the Mandingo Griot Society. He is currently leading his own ensemble, "Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures" which recently appeared at several major European music festivals. He was featured soloist with the Koln Radio Orchestra in the premiere of Yusef Lateef's African -American Epic Suite.
Years of performance and research into the music forms, languages, instrumentation and cosmologies of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora have given Rudolph the background and experience to create a unique improvisational art form. Rudolph performs on a wide range of instruments, including hand percussion (congas, djembe, bendir, dumbek, tabla, talking drum, kalimba, udu ), didjeridoo, multiphonic singing, and electronics.
One of the first musicians ever to experiment with cross-cultural improvisation, Adam Rudolph's pioneering vision goes beyond his masterful playing and combining of diverse global styles...his unique expression is shaped by an extraordinary philosophical perspective in which the cosmology of the various cultures he embraces is applied toward the music making process. Combining music making ideas from around the globe, Rudolph's compositions weave what he terms "an audio syncretic musical fabric."
Rudolph has received commissions and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation I Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and the NEA. He has appeared on numerous recordings for many major labels, including Warner Bros., Capitol, EMI, Island, Polygram, and Atlantic.

Adam Rudolph's website: http://www.metarecords.com