Rebecca Rust

Rebecca Rust is an American cellist.

Biography

Rebecca Rust was born in Oakland, California, U.S.A., March 17th, 1954. She studied with Margaret Rowell in San Francisco, Bernard Greenhouse from the Beaux Arts Trio in New York, Paul Szabo from the Végh Quartet in Cologne, Germany, and took masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovitch in Basel, Switzerland and Berkeley, California, U.S.A. She has recorded 13 CDs, among which are premiere recordings of compositions by Georges Enesco: "Sonata for cello and piano op. 26, No. 1". She played the U.S. premiere performance of this rediscovered composition in 1987 in Washington D.C. (see archives of Washington Post: "Performing Arts" of Febr. 19th, 1987:http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73797934.html?dids=73797934:73797934&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+19%2C+1987&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=b.04&desc=Performing+Arts). Heitor Villa-Lobos: "O trenzinho do caipira" and others, Donald Francis Tovey: "Sonata for cello and piano op. 4", "Elegiac Variations, op. 25", Robert Kahn: "Sonata op. 37 for cello and piano", "3 Pieces op. 25" Hans Gál: "Suite op. 6", "Two Scottish Rhapsodies"(reviews in Fanfare Magazine), Karl Michael Komma. Compositions were written for her and dedicated to her and her husband, German bassoonist Friedrich Edelmann (http://www.friedrichedelmann.com) by Karl Michael Komma, Jan Koetsier: "Fantasie" for cello, bassoon and piano, op. 87 (1981) published by Donemus Amsterdam; Harald Genzmer: Divertimento for violoncello and bassoon(1981), published by Peters; Jan Novák, "Sonata Phantasia":(http://www.kammerparis.com/pages_generales/disques/texte_presentation_novak_2_de.htm) Otmar Mácha: "Apollon & Marsyas", Max Stern: "Songs of Ascents". The main publisher of Rebecca Rust's CDs is Naxos Records (Marco Polo): Heitor Villa-Lobos, Georges Enesco, Donald Francis Tovey, Frank Bridge. Additional publishers: Bayer Records (http://www.bayermusicgroup.de) and Cavalli Records (http://www.cavalli-records.com).

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