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Viva Knight and Ted Rust regard Dolci, their piano-oboe duo, as the after-careers dessert course (dolci) of their lives. They started performing together at home concerts for friends in 2009. They continue to study the piano-oboe repertoire, with coaching from Gloria Cheng, Jeanne Stark, Tamara Loring and William Bennett. |
Viva Knight studied piano with Stefan Bardas at the University of North Texas, Marina Young at Rutgers University, Betty Oberacker in Santa Barbara; she earned her BA degree at New York University. She has given recitals in New York City, Southampton, New York City and Assisi, Italy. She has enjoyed careers as a television producer (including the series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), an off-Broadway theatre producer, and an adjunct professor of screenwriting at NYU. Her playing is featured on Baby Aboard, a CD of short classical piano works for expectant mothers. 
Ted Rust studied oboe and English horn with Louis Speyer, Raymond Dusté and Humbert Lucarelli, and composition with William Ludtke. He has advanced degrees in city and regional planning from MIT and from UC Berkeley. While working as a regional economics consultant, he coached woodwind technique and chamber music at The Crowden School in Berkeley, performed in the quintet Quorum Ventorum and published Music for the Love of It, a periodical for amateur musicians. He is principal oboist of the Berkeley Bach Cantata Group. Web page updated November 15, 2011
© 2011 by Edgar Rust