Ruby Fulton

Ruby Fulton (b. 1981) grew up in Northwest Iowa and studied at Boston University and the San Francisco Conservatory before moving to Baltimore, where she is currently working towards a doctorate at the Peabody Conservatory. Her music is built from musical and non-musical influences alike, ranging from The Beatles to buddhist philosophy to psychological patterning.

Along with composer George Lam, she is co-artistic director of Rhymes With Opera, a new opera company committed to bringing new works of opera and music-theater out of the opera house and into unconventional spaces. Her music has been performed recently at the 2007 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA and the 2007 A•Devantgarde Festival in Munich. She has collaborated with the Peabody Opera Department, the West End String Quartet of Hartford, CT, and soprano Bonnie Lander. Upcoming projects include pieces for SONAR New Music Ensemble, marimba player Michael Compitello, and the Bay Area bass clarinet duo, Sqwonk.

Also a performer and teacher, she plays viola in the Baltimore band The Greatest City in America and teaches music theory for Peabody Preparatory. She has studied with composers Christopher Theofanidis, Moritz Eggert, Elinor Armer, Dan Becker, Charles Fussell, Tison Street and Martin Amlin.