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.
Christina Rusnak, Composer
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 has served as the President of the International Alliance for Women.
AMERICAN PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION 2025
RECENT
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 United Nations document. Please contact me to be part of this consortium 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
VOICES OF THE LAND musically explores diverse landscapes, beautiful and rugged as well as desolate and abundant across the western United States, against the backdrop of settlement; of land and livelihoods ripped away, and land and livelihoods given away. The six pieces in this project tell a collective story. Global Music Award Winner 2023.
CALENDAR & EVENTS
King Tides – Premiere
March 8, 2026, 7:00
King Tides – Premiere
Portland Oregon
Julia Lee (piano), Diane Chaplin (cello), and Tatiana Kolchanova (violin)
ACDA NW Conference
March 4-7, 2026
ACDA NW Conference
Tacoma WA
Life Across the Sea – Premiere
November 1-2, 2025
Life Across the Sea – Premiere
Christina with Winona State University Wind Band
FEATURED MUSIC SELECTIONS
The Coast in Winter C 2026
Wind Band Grade 1-2 + Grade 3-4 Clarinet soloist.
Duration ~ 3:30
King Tides
View Score
Liberty’s Light 2019
This timely piece about Immigration is for
Eight part Women’s Choir a’cappella
Duration ~ 9:30