Guest Artist Recital: Roberta Rust, piano
"everything we do is music..." (John Cage)
Virtuosa Roberta Rust will perform an international mix of piano masterpieces. Her program juxtaposes well-known classics by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Falla with contemporary music by John Cage, and jazz and Baroque-influenced pieces by Dutilleux, Rochberg and Errol Garner. The New York Times hailed Roberta Rust as “a powerhouse of a pianist--one who combines an almost frightening fervor and intensity with impeccable technique and spartan control.” Her many recordings feature music of Debussy, Haydn, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, and contemporary American composers. Born in Texas of American Indian ancestry, Roberta Rust serves as Artist Faculty-Piano/Professor and Head of the Piano Department at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.