Lynn Artist Faculty featured in recent READ poster

Professor Roberta Rust, Artist Faculty and Head of the Piano Department at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, is featured in the recent READ poster. Professor Rust began her career at Lynn in 1991 when the Conservatory was known as Harid Conservatory. She gives master classes internationally, serves as adjudicator for piano competitions and has written articles for Clavier Magazine. In addition to piano teaching, Rust coaches chamber music, teaches Music Entrepreneurship and has taught Music History, Piano Pedagogy and Literature. For the poster, Professor Rust poses with the book “Love in the time of the Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She explains her choice saying

“It is one of the most inspiring novels in the latter part of the 20th century – a book filed with unquenchable hope and the indomitable persistence of love. I’ve read it three times already – and will read it again and again.”

Professor Rust studied at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated "summa cum laude" from the University of Texas at Austin, and received performer's certificates in piano and German Lieder from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She earned her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music and her doctorate at the University of Miami. Her teachers included Ivan Davis, Artur Balsam, John Perry, and Phillip Evans and master class studies were with Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, and Carlo Zecchi. Her recent CD release, Devoted to Debussy, joins acclaimed discs Franz Joseph Haydn, Piano Music of Villa-Lobos (Centaur Records) and Three American Premieres & the Prokofieff Sonata No. 6 (Protone Records).