Portraits © Daniel Dottavio | Standing © Guy Vivien

Recent News...


World Premiere and additional performance of Winter Songs by the Society for New Music, spring and summer, 2008. Suppored by the Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections program.

World Premiere of Eating Variations by the American Modern Ensemble on AME's Food and Music concert, spring, 2008.

Recent commission for a new choral work for by the Volti choir of San Francisco, to be premiered in spring, 2009.

Multiple performances of Embracing the Wind by the New York Harp Trio on their Australian tour, fall 2008.

European Premiere and seventeen additional performances of Dancing Games from Symphony in Three Movements by the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Maestro Jonathan Schiffman, conducting, spring 2007.

European Premiere and additional performances of Embracing The Wind by the Naiades Ensemble, summer 2008.



A Few Quotes...

On the premiere of Symphony in Three Movements...

"The audience just roared. Never has a new work been given such an ecstatic reception."

– Ithaca Times

On a performance by the New York New Music Ensemble...

"People who go to recitals like this one don't necessarily expect to hear catchy advertising ready jingles rife with simplex melodies and harmonies. They want intellectual meat, creative powers working on a higher plane. A case in point is Robert Paterson's Quintus."

– The Buffalo News

“Rob, The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind is such a polished jewel! Beautiful sonorities, impeccable pacing, compelling arches... Congrats!!”

- Melinda Wagner
Composer for the New York Philharmonic, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music

"I really like your music a lot! I was particularly intrigued by Crimson Earth... a real psychedelic trip with weird moans casting a dark shadow across a march... lots of kaleidoscopic fades and dissolves—very, very cool... your music shows years of disciplined dedication to your craft combined with a wonderfully vivid imagination."

- Steven Mackey, Composer & Electric Guitarist
Professor of Music, Princeton University

Numerous National/International Orchestral Commissions and Performances


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