Logan Rutledge

Logan Rutledge is a composer of contemporary classical music from Gainesville, Florida. His works have been performed by a diverse range of esteemed ensembles, including the H2 Sax Quartet, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, L+M Duo, Lakeshore Rush Ensemble, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Beo String Quartet, Kaleidoscope MusArt, and Project Fusion, among others.
‍

In 2017, Rutledge was honored with a Merit Award from the Tribeca New Music Composition Competition. That same year, his piece Out of My League for two soprano saxophones was featured by the Fulcrum Point New Music Project in Chicago as part of their Emerging Artists Series. Rutledge’s continued recognition as a composer includes his selection as a Composition Fellow at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, where he workshopped a new commission for oboe quartet under the mentorship of Donald Crockett.
‍

Rutledge’s composition Stretch Marks was performed as part of the Kaleidoscope MusArt Odyssey Series in 2018, and later that year, he won the graduate division of the University of Miami’s in-house Ensemble Ibis Composition Competition. In 2020, his piece There was nothing to say, and we said nothing was chosen by the Limitless Collective for performance during their 2020-2021 season. Throughout his career, Rutledge has received commissions from a variety of ensembles, including the Nomad Quartet, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Percussion Ensemble, Miami University Bassoon Quartet, Smax Duo, Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, and fivebyfive, among others.

Rutledge holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he studied composition with Marc Mellits, and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, studying under Charles Norman Mason. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studies under Don Freund, P.Q. Phan, and Han Lash. In addition to his compositional work, Rutledge serves as an Instructor of Music at Williston State College in Williston, North Dakota, where he resides with his partner andtheir cat, Nico.

‍