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.  

 

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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 has served as the President of the International Alliance for Women.

AMERICAN PRIZE FINALIST 2025

The American Prize is designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States. Now in its fourteenth year, The American Prize is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts.

“By nature, I’m an explorer. That informs all of my endeavors. I love creating connections – ideas, people, place, and music."

 

– Christina Rusnak, Composor/Explorer

"I believe that music can connect people in ways beyond notes on a page.”

 

– Christina Rusnak, Composor/Explorer

"I strive to integrate context into my music to convey something meaningful."

 

– Christina Rusnak, Composor/Explorer

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

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.

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Connecting to the Wider World

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.

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Voices of the Land

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.

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CALENDAR & EVENTS

FEATURED MUSIC SELECTIONS

Life Across the Sea 2024

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

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

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)