from “The New York Times”
“She manages to bring world cultures home....to stretch familiar images into fresh perspectives...presenting landscapes that we already know but that are transformed by unusual palettes.”
Paul Taub, Flutist & Executive Director, Seattle Chamber Players
“Amy is someone who is able to draw a very diverse public into the world of contemporary music and creative process She is equally adept at engaging an audience at a small festival in rural Washington State, young impressionable students at Cornish, and the sophisticated audience at Benaroya Hall. She has a knack for creative interactive situations with an audience, involving them in the creative process with enthusiasm, verve and spirit.”
Asociacion Dominicana de Academicos Fulbright
“Your piano concert, “Music from Jazz Sources” touched every one who had the opportunity to hear your brilliant interpretations of the American composer George Gershwin and the Brazilian Egberto Gismonti. Your own compositions reflected your inner strength, pervasive feelings and your love of beauty and human kind. We hope you many continue to spread world understanding through the international language of music."
from “Fanfare”
“free and fearless in her ability to synthesize different materials, open and fluent in her use of various media.”
Recent Paths
IMAGININGS, for Chamber Orchestra A four movement work without words. Rubin is composer and co-arranger with orchestrator Luca Millard-Kish 2023
BLUE VERA, for classical pianist, jazz pianist and narrator 2022. A ten minute long piece telling the story from the point of view of an old Steinway piano. Rubin is composer/pianist joined by Jazz pianist Randy Halberstadt and actor Gordon Adams. Premiered at Jack Straw 2022.
COVID LANDSCAPES, for sampled sound and spoken voice; short pieces combining poetry and music, Amy is composer; keyboardist joined by actress Esther Neeser and actor Gordon Adams commissioned by Wayward Music for their Covid Podcasts 2022
UNMUTED, an audio book anthology of memoirs created by writers at GenPride, Seattle. Amy directed, produced, scored and wrote an essay for this compilation 2022
LET IT RAIN, an essay about being the only woman in the Composition class of the Yale School of Music 1973-76. Published in "Remembering 50," Amy is the writer 2022
BLOOD SISTERS an essay about life and love set along side the challenges of chronic cancer. Published by Amazon, Amy is the writer 2020
JAMAICA FAREWELL, an essay about an artist residency gone wrong 2018.
SELECTED SONGS FROM “The Last Egg” Book Kathy Madden, Lyrics Lily Dwoskin 2021-2022
TRIO Laura De Luca, Eugene Bazahnov, and Amy D. Rubin in concert 2020-present