Background
Ruchman was born in New New York
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Sharon Ruchman
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Education
She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and was both singer and pianist for the Conservatory choir under Lorna Cooke DeVaron. In 1971 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree.
Ruchman then attended the Yale School of Music, earning her Master of Music degree in 1973. She was a soloist in the “Mozart Requiem” with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
She sang in other Yale performances and was chosen to participate in the Yale Summer School opera program in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Career
Ruchman"s works have been performed on Connecticut Style on WTNH, channel 8 in Connecticut, at the National s Association in San Francisco, the Hartford Women s Festival, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, and Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Connecticut. Her great uncle was violinist Rudolph Fuchs, who in the 1920s debuted in Steinway Hall, played for President Calvin Coolidge and was a concertmaster on KMTR in Los Los Angeles Ruchman began her musical career at age 5, composing tunes as she played piano.
She began taking piano lessons at age 8.
In high school, Ruchman developed her voice and performed in high school recitals and plays. By her junior year, she was chosen to sing with the All-County Chorus in Nassau County, All-State Chorus in New York and the All-Eastern Chorus, performed in Boston.
