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 FINALIST 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
AMS Conference
November 6-9, 2025
AMS Conference
Minneapolis MN
Life Across the Sea – Premiere
November 1-2, 2025
Life Across the Sea – Premiere
Winona State University Wind Band
Residency – Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
October 2025
October 14-26, 2025
Winona State University Wind Band
FEATURED MUSIC SELECTIONS
Life Across the Sea 2024
The story of human migration; how the values and beliefs of our present are impacted and shaped by the ethos of those who created a life far from home.
Time, After All 2023
FINALIST – 2025 American Prize for Orchestra. A high achiever, I was driven to learn, to accomplish, as the weight of an early demise was heavy
The South Pass 2021
A major wildlife migration point across the Rocky Mountains, the South Pass has been traversed by people for thousands of years. 2024 American Prize 2nd Place winner (tied)