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Biography
Marjorie M.
Rusche is an internationally performed award winning contemporary
classical composer who combines romantic, modernist, and vernacular
influences in her music. Dr. Rusche composes for opera, music theater,
orchestra, chorus, a variety of vocal and instrumental chamber
ensembles, soloists, dance, and theatre.
The Gamboling Girl, a
South Bend Symphony Orchestra commission, premiered 1/9/2022.
Commissioned by oboist Jennet Ingle, Dreams and Visions (Searching the
Shadows) for oboe, viola, and piano, premiered 1/26/2020 with subsequent
performances throughout northwestern IN and southwestern MI in Feb. and
March 2020. Songs of Love and Death for soprano and piano premiered
3/6/2020 on the Fourth Annual International Music by Women Festival,
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS.; song cycle excerpts
were premiered 3/7/2014 on a New York City Underworld Productions Opera
CrossCURRENT concert. She was a guest composer 3/2/2013 with Musica
Reginae Productions, New York City and was honored as a guest composer
at the 13th London New Music for Winds Festival, 11/19/2010, in London,
England. Her compositions have been performed live and on radio in
Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, San
Francisco, Vienna, Denmark, Kenya, Spain, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan,
and Wisconsin, her birth state.
Awards and commissions include:
2021-2022 South Bend Symphony Orchestra commission; 2019-2020 chamber
work commission (with partial funding support from the Indiana Arts
Commission); 2018 & 2017 Indiana Arts Commission grant for
Creativity Workshops through the Arts in the Parks and Historic Sites
program; 2016-2017 University of Notre Dame Children's Choir Commission;
2016 Calliopes' Call International Composition Competition Honorable
Mention; 2015-2016 Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship –
Music Composition; 2015 University of Notre Dame Chorale; 2015-2016
Masterworks Chorale, Muncie, IN; 2014 South Bend Chamber Singers;
2013-2014 and 2012-2013 Music Composition Professional Development
Faculty Grants, Indiana University South Bend; 2012 Music Composition
Commission from USA Projects, Artists2Artists Fund, USA Open Matching
Fund, Cheswatyr Music Commissioning Fund (American Composers Forum) and
30 individual donors; 2012 Associate Faculty Merit Status, Indiana
University South Bend; 2011 Stickley Foundation Grant for Music
Composition; 2011 Curriculum Development Grant, Indiana University; 2010
Associate Faculty Travel Grant, Indiana University South Bend;
2010-2011 IU South Bend Center for a Sustainable Future Sustainability
Fellow; Columbia College Chicago Follett Fellowship; Saint Mary's
College Women's Choir commission; Portland, OR Regional Arts Commission
grant; Indiana Music Teachers Association Convention Commission; South
Bend Symphony Orchestra; the American Music Center's Margaret Fairbank
Jory Copying Assistance Program, New York City; DuPage Chorale/American
Composers Forum-Chicago Chapter; Stickley Foundation Opera Commission
Award, South Bend, IN; Indiana State Arts Board Individual Composer
Fellowship; Meet The Composer-Midwest; the Jerome Foundation, St. Paul,
MN; the American Chamber Opera Company, New York City; Gotham Ensemble,
New York City; Meet The Composer-New York Composer Performance Fund
Award; Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, IN; McKnight Foundation Fellowship
in Music Composition, St. Paul, MN; Minnesota State Arts Board
Individual Artist Fellowship in Music Composition; Minnesota Composers
Forum Demo Tape Grant; the Schubert Club, St. Paul, MN; Minnesota
Composers Forum/Jerome Foundation Composers Commissioning Program Award;
Skylight Comic Opera Theater, Milwaukee, WI; DANCECIRCUS, Milwaukee, WI
and yearly ASCAP Standard Awards.
Dr. Rusche is affiliated with
ASCAP, New Music USA, Opera America, College Music Society, and is a
charter member of the American Composers Forum (aka Minnesota Composers
Forum).
She currently teaches or has taught music composition,
orchestration, opera history, music theory, form & analysis, music
history, and piano at Indiana University South Bend, the University of
Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, Colombia College Chicago and
Southwestern Michigan College. She also taught in Kenya while serving in
the U.S. Peace Corps. She earned her D.M. in Music Composition from the
Jacobs School of Music Indiana University-Bloomington, and her M.A. in
Music Composition & Theory from the University of
Minnesota-Minneapolis.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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