Christina Rusnak, Composer
Combining a love of nature, culture and music, Christina is a multifaceted composer whose work reflects a diversity of styles. Actively seeking to integrate geographic and artistic elements into her work, her goal is to compose music that engages the performers as well as the audience.
Meet Christina
“Working at the intersection of nature, culture, history and art, I strive to integrate context into my music to convey something meaningful.”
Passionate about composing about place and the human experience, composer Christina Rusnak works at the intersection of place, nature, culture, history and art to integrate context into her music from the world around her to convey something meaningful about the human experience.
For over five years, Christina serves at the President for over 5 years.
AMERICAN PRIZE FINALIST 2025
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PROJECTS & WORKS
Passionate about composing about place and the human experience, composer Christina Rusnak works at the intersection of place, nature, culture, history and art to integrate context into her music from the world around her to convey something meaningful about the human experience. Her concert music includes chamber ensemble, orchestra, wind band, choral and solo pieces as well as jazz and electro-acoustic works. She is eager to explore new challenges.
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Women’s Rights are Human Rights musically explores the inequity, marginalization, abuse and violence that women still face globally in the 21st century. The multi-movement piece for women’s choir, pulls its text from the document created by the United Nations in 2014. I intend to work with multiple choirs, to perform this work globally.
Connecting to the Wider World
Connecting to the Wider World is a presentation and/or workshop designed to help create a lens through which composers, performers and conductors can choose and perform works that can connect with and engage audiences on a socially meaningful level. Music can connect people in ways beyond notes on a page.
Voices of the Land
Women’s Rights are Human Rights musically explores the inequity, marginalization, abuse and violence that women still face globally in the 21st century. The multi-movement piece for women’s choir, pulls its text from the document created by the United Nations in 2014. I intend to work with multiple choirs, to perform this work globally.
CALENDAR & EVENTS
Germany September
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The Grapefruits Duo
Wide Open Spaces for Horn & Piano Unbidden for Piano Solo The Grapefruits Duo Seattle, WA St. Dunstans Episcopal Church 7:30pm
Residency
Residency THIS IS THE DATE THIS IS THE COPY SECTION San Juan Island, Washington
FEATURED MUSIC SELECTIONS
Teklanika 2013
Denali National Park’s immense hills and mountains appear to be cloaked in a lush green carpet, capped by stone and ice, with braided rivers at its feet.
The Mountain Within 2015
Experiencing place is like pealing an onion – with each visit, new layers become evident.
Passage (2017)
Passage was composed without an external impetus. A single movement work, the piece is derived, somewhat organically, from the original musical material itself.