Pianist Roberta Rust and a group of her gifted piano students from the Lynn University Conservatory of Music will perform a variety of keyboard works by J.S. Bach on a Steinway Concert Grand Piano at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida. Roberta Rust has concertized to critical acclaim around the globe, with performances at such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Rio de Janeiro’s Sala Cecilia Meireles, Washington’s Corcoran Gallery, and Seoul’s KNUA Hall. Hailed for her recordings on the Centaur and Protone labels, Rust has appeared with the Lark, Ying, and Amernet String Quartets and at Miami’s Mainly Mozart Festival, the Philippines Opusfest, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Festival Miami, Long Island’s Beethoven Festival, and France’s La Gesse. Her concerto appearances have included engagements with the Houston Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic, New Philharmonic, Redlands Symphony, Boca Raton Symphonia, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, New World Symphony, and orchestras in Latin America. She served as Artistic Ambassador for the United States, was awarded a major National Endowment for the Arts grant, and also received recognition and prizes from the Organization of American States, National Society of Arts & Letters, and International Concours de Fortepiano (Paris).
Dr. Rust serves as Artist Faculty-Piano/Professor and head of the piano department at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2016 she received the “Deanne and Gerald Gitner and Family Excellence in Teaching Award.” She has given master classes throughout Asia and the Americas and at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, the University of Florida International Piano Festival and the Fondation Bell’Arte International Certificate for Piano Artists program. Rust has served as a competition adjudicator for the New World Symphony, the Chautauqua and Brevard Festivals, and the Colburn School’s Music Academy. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, and earned performer’s certificates in piano and German Lieder from the Mozarteum in Salzburg. A student of Ivan Davis, Arthur Balsam, John Perry, and Phillip Evans, she received a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a doctorate from the University of Miami. Master class studies were with Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Carlo Zecchi, and Erik Werba. For more information please visit www.robertarust.com.

BACH – PFEIFER

In 1972 Thomas Axworthy began teaching the Recorder Class at Rio Hondo College in Whittier. This class is the Rio Hondo Consort.

Over the years we began working on other instruments of the Renaissance and Late Baroque eras including the SHAWM (early oboe), the DULCIANS (early bassoons), CORNETTO (finger hole trumpet), SACKBUT (early trombone), CRUNHORNS (capped double reeds) and early FLUTES as well as the recorder.

This combination of instruments was called the STADT PFEIFER in the late renaissance. Every town in Germany, Austria and Switzerland had their own STADT PFEIFER.

Playing only the music of Bach, we became the BACH-PFEIFER.

The Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra is one of a growing number of recorder orchestras that have sprung up in Europe and around the United States in recent years.

LARO was founded in the summer of 2004, and is made up of thirty-plus recorder players from all around Southern California.

The group plays compositions ranging from the Renaissance period to the 20th century, arranged for sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, great bass, contrabass, sub great bass and subcontrabass recorders.

“Bach is in the Air” – Singers or instrumentalists of the University Koblenz travel with you in the cable car and perform during your trip over the River Rhine. Tba.