Oliver Rudin

Oliver Rudin (born March 3, 1981 in Basel ) is a Swiss musician.

Life

Born on March 3, 1981 in Basel, Oliver Rudin began his musical career at the age of four. He sang with Mireille Mathieu on the French TV program “École des fans” at the Théatre de l'Empire in Paris . In the same year he started taking violin lessons. A little later he joined the Knabenkantorei Basel , where he appeared as a chorister and soloist on numerous concert tours and stages, including at the Theater Basel as "The Boy" in the Wozzeck opera alongside Falk Struckmann (Wozzeck) and Emily Rawlins-Struckmann (Marie) ( Director: Christof Nel , conductor: Michael Boder ) and Die Zauberflöte (director: Peter Stoltzenberg , conductor: Walter Weller ), as well as in the Cathédrale de Lausanne in Requiem (Webber) under René Falquet and in Senfkorn (Klaus Huber) under Arturo Tamayo . As a violinist, he and his sister and pianist Jennifer Rudin won numerous competitions for young talent. At the age of 14 he was accepted as a young violin student at the University of Music (Basel) . He then studied choral conducting and school music II and produced the “Tinguely opera” La machine rêve by Matthias Heep as part of “Les Muséiques” under the artistic direction of Gidon Kremer . Oliver Rudin studied with Rudolf Barshai , Alexander van Wijnkoop, Jost Meier , Raphael Immoos and Rudolf Lutz . He also attended several summer master classes with Edith Kraft at the Juilliard School in New York. He was funded by the Swiss Study Foundation for several years of study . In autumn 2007 he completed his postgraduate studies in cultural management at the University of Basel with a Master of Advanced Studies .

In 1997 he founded the Basel band without instruments The Glue . As a singer, songwriter, arranger and band manager, he can look back with The Glue on a career with more than 600 stage appearances at home and abroad and multiple international awards. Rudin has been working as a music teacher at the Kirschgarten grammar school and at the Münsterplatz grammar school in Basel since 2000 and has been a practical teacher at the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences since 2008. Since 2006 he has conducted the gospel choir at Basel Münster. In March 2008 he founded the Männerstimmen Basel with former singers from the Knabenkantorei Basel and has been their musical director ever since. With the men's voices in Basel, he won the prize for the best male choir at the 2009 International Choir Festival in Tallinn / Estonia. He is also a member of the professional choir of the JS Bach Foundation under Rudolf Lutz . He also conducted the Voices women's choir .

In summer 2017 he took over the musical direction of the Knabenkantorei Basel.