Rusty Banks
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Adjunct Faculty - Orchestration/Arranging, Applied Guitar, Composition
- Composition and Guitar, B.M.
University of Montevallo - Composition, M.M.
The Florida State University
- MUS138: Guitar
- MUS139: Guitar
- MUS238: Guitar
- MUS239: Guitar
- MUS338: Guitar
- MUS339: Guitar
- MUS340: Composition
- MUS341: Composition
- MUS438: Guitar
- MUS439: Guitar
- MUS440: Composition
- MUS441: Composition
- MUS486: Orchestration and Arranging
- Winner of 4th Annual "UnCaged Toy Piano" competition
- NPR's Q2 "100 composers under 40"
- Selected for Sequenza21 2008 Composers Concert
- "Who's Afraid of Big Bad Electro-Acoustic Music?" Participated in panel of composers discussing ways for the uninitiated to begin incorporating electronics into their work.
- Pre-concert panel discussion: Participated o panel to discuss by work "Coronal Loops" for wind ensemble at Trinity University
- Lecture/Concert: Current Trends in Electro-Acoustic Music (co-lecturer and guitarist/composer with Jessica Lindsey of the New Music Agency for College Music Society's 2011 Great Plains Regional Conference
- Lecture: Form and Analysis as a Model for Student Career Path (co-lecture with mark Sheridan-Rabideau, Wyoming University; Richard Miller, Rutgers University; given at University of Colorado-Boulder and University of Wyoming
- Lecture: Hydrology: A Hatch of Frauds (discussion of composition) Kennesaw State University, Birmingham-Southern College, Millersville University
- Soloist on original new work for electric guitar and orchestra - Fall River Symphony Orchestra - 2017
- Allegro Chamber Orchestra: Soloist on Vivaldi "Concerto in D Major" - 2016
- Franklin and Marshall College Sound Horizons Series, Lancaster, PA - 2015
- NakedEye Ensemble: Concerts in Lancaster, PA and St. Louis, MO (guitarist, composer, conductor)
- Music from the Iberian Diaspora (concert with Maria Corely, Kristen Sims, Christy Banks) Music by Tarrega, Villa Lobos, and Chick Corea
- Instructor of Music, Applied Guitar, Chamber Music and other courses as needed - Franklin and Marshall College
- Instructor of Music: Composition, Orchestration, Music Production, Popular Music, Music and Culture, Applied Guitar - Millersville University
- Instructor of Music: Music Theory and Music Appreciation - Nebraska-Wesleyan University
- Instructor of Music, Music Technology Coordinator: Music Theory, American Popular Music, Jazz Ensemble - Doane College