Robert Rust

Robert W. Rust (1998) is a multifaceted musician who moves between roles guided by his mission to translate the sacred into sound. He works in collaboration with others, as a recording engineer, producer, composer, arranger, copyist, pianist, and violist. He has written for leading artists and ensembles—including Nancy Ives, Estelí Gomez, Daniel Lippel, Wonkak Kim, Eunah Noh, Chatter, and Chatham Baroque—and had works premiered at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and Music Today Festival. As a church musician, he has written for congregations in Sun Valley, California, and Eugene, Oregon. When it's not allergy season, he enjoys exploring the rivers, forests, beaches, and wetlands that surround his home in the Pacific Northwest.