Marjorie M. Rusche

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, dance, orchestra, chorus, and a variety of vocal and instrumental soloists and chamber ensembles. She currently teaches or has taught music composition, orchestration, opera history, music theory and piano at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, Indiana University South Bend and Colombia College Chicago. 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. For more information view www.marjorierusche.com and http://marjoriemrusche.bandcamp.com for audio files of her music compositions.