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Roberta Rust has inspired audiences and captivated critics on four continents with concert programming and a discography that reveal eclectic imagination and artistic range. Her recent CD release, Devoted to Debussy, joins acclaimed discs Franz Joseph Haydn, Piano Music of Villa-Lobos (Centaur Records) and Three American Premieres & the Prokofieff Sonata No. 6 (Protone Records). Rust has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Philippine Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, the Boca Raton Symphonia, the New Philharmonic, and orchestras throughout Latin America in concerti of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Saint-Saens and Bartok. As an outstanding chamber musician, she has played with the Lark, Ying, and Amernet String Quartets, members of the Empire Brass Quintet, and as a duo-pianist with her husband, Phillip Evans. |
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| Born in Texas of Euro-American and Sioux ancestry, Rust currently lives in Boynton Beach, Florida. She served as Artistic Ambassador for the United States and has been the recipient of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded additional grants and prizes from the Organization of American States, National Society of Arts & Letters, and the International Concours de Fortepiano in Paris. Pulitzer-Prize winning music critic Tim Page wrote in The New York Times: "Roberta Rust is a powerhouse of a pianist - one who combines an almost frightening fervor and intensity with impeccable technique and spartan control." The Miami Herald described her as follows: "There was tremendous bravura, sweep and power ... Here was a virtuosa." | |||||||||||