Robert Paterson | Composer

Portraits © Daniel Dottavio | Standing © Guy Vivien

Recent News...

The French Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire conducted by Maestro Jonathan Schiffman performs Paterson's Dancing Games from Symphony in Three Movements seventeen times throughout France during the 2007 Season.

The Philharmonia Quintet, based in Cracow, Poland released the World Premiere Recording of Paterson's Wind Quintet, summer, 2006.

The University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble directed by Jeffrey Renshaw gave the World Premiere of Crimson Earth, spring, 2006.

Paterson receives Honorable Mention in the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's 2008 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition for his Sextet, resulting in an upcoming commission.

Paterson receives an Aaron Copland Award for a Copland House residency, summer of 2006.

Paterson wins the prestigious Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition for Electric Lines.

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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