Dorothy Rudd Moore (born 4 June 1940) is an American music educator and composer.
Dorothy Rudd was born in New Castle, Delaware, and took piano lessons as a child. She graduated from Howard University in 1963 where she studied with Mark Fax, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1963 and Chou Wen-Chung in New York in 1965.
Rudd worked as a private music teacher, from 1965-66 taught at the Harlem School of the Arts, in 1969 at New York University and in 1971 at the Bronx Community College. She married cellist Kermit Moore in 1964.[1]
Moore has received the Lucy Moten fellowship and other grants, and in 1968 became a co-founder of the Society of Black Composers in New York. Her works were unpublished, but are available through the American Composers Alliance.[2][3]
Moore has composed song cycles, chamber pieces, orchestral music and an opera. Selected works include: