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Playing the 1724 Vater Müller organ at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.
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Charles Rus is Music Director of the Franciscan Friary at Assumption Church in Syracuse, New York. Charles is also employed at Kerner and Merchant Pipe Organ Builders, also in Syracuse.
A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Charles received degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Michigan, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, the Folkwang Hochscule fur Musik in Essen, Germany.
He has worked with organ builders Jack Bethards (Schoenstein), George Bozeman, and Fritz Noack, and he has helped restore various organs, including the E. M. Skinner organ in Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also an organ consultant and in that capacity has helped to bring the significant John Brombaugh Opus 9 to Sonoma State University.
He has been organist for the San Francisco Symphony, organ teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, organist for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, Organist and Choir Director at Corpus Christi Church, Rochester, and Musician for St. Thomas Episcopal, Seattle.
Charles composes liturgical music, much of which can be found here. To see a video of my choir singing one of my anthems, click here.
Assumption Church, Syracuse
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