Joel Rust

Joel Rust is a composer and sound artist. Currently, his works focus on the relationships between humans and their environments. He is a PhD candidate at New York University, where he studies composition with Louis Karchin and Jaime Oliver. His scholarly focus is sound and the city in the early twentieth century, through the lens of the music of Edgard Varèse; he has received a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship and the Patricia Dunn Lehrman Fellowship to support his research. He is developing an opera, The Conifers, with poet David Troupes, which has been supported by a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship at Snape Maltings.
He has previously studied with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Chaya Czernowin at Harvard University, and Robin Holloway at the University of Cambridge. Musicians he has worked with include mise-en, The Hermes Experiment, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Marco Fusi, TAK, the American Composers Orchestra, the Melos Sinfonia, Filthy Lucre, and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and his works feature on recordings by Discantus and the Choir of King’s College, London. He also plays bass viol with NYU’s viol consort, The Teares of the Muses. For more information, see joelrust.com.