Recent News...

Three Year Residency with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association beginning Summer 2009, made possible by Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras through the Meet The Composer Music Alive Program.

In Residence at Yaddo, June 2009, to work on scenes from the new opera A Child Possessed, with writer and librettist David Cote.

World Premiere of Eternal Reflections, a new choral work commissioned by the Volti choir of San Francisco, spring, 2009.

New York premiere of Winter Songs by the American Modern Ensemble on AME's North Country concert, winter, 2009, David Neal, bass-baritone.

World Premiere and additional performance of Winter Songs by the Society for New Music, spring and summer, 2008. Commissioned by David Neal and the Arts at Grace series through the New York State Music Fund and supported 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 Tongue and Groove, a new work for alto sax and marimba, commissioned by Jeremy Justeson and a consortium of saxophonists through CASE Arts Group, Inc. First World Premiere, spring, 2009. Suppored by the Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections program.

Recent commission for The Book of Goddesses, a new work for the MAYA trio and choreographed dancers, partially funded by NYSCA.

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

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

One of the major contenders in American music – Ithaca Times

Rob has created one of the most moving and beautiful compositions it has ever been my pleasure to hear. If you ever get a chance to hear Eternal Reflections, let nothing get in your way. – The Blue Roads of Thinking

From strident whistles to a siren imitated in a violin glissando to anxious rhythms, this piece definitely got its man. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Creative powers working on a higher plane – The Buffalo News