Robinson McClellan (b.1976) is a composer, scholar, and concert presenter. His choral, orchestral, band, and chamber music has been heard internationally in a variety of concert and liturgical settings including the Oregon Bach Festival, Windsor Castle (UK), the Monteverdi Choir Festival (Hungary), the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (NY), and the Vatican. Recent commissions have come from the Albany Symphony (David Alan Miller), the baroque trio Flying Forms, the Museum of Biblical Art (NYC), mezzo-soprano Sylvia Aiko Rider, Yale Schola Cantorum (Simon Carrington), organist Carson Cooman, Christ Church New Haven (Robert Lehman), Marquand Chapel at Yale, and the female vocal Trio Eos. His work was selected for a reading by the Fort Worth Symphony (Miguel Harth-Bedoya). His work has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and ASCAP. He has been interviewed for Chronogram and Chamber Music magazines, and recordings of his music appeared in Palimpsest, an arts magazine. Several of his sacred choral pieces are forthcoming in Circle Songs, an Episcopal hymnal. In Spring 2008 he was appointed the first composer in residence for ActorCor, for which he will be spearheading a new composing competition that will seek music with Islamic and multifaith connections. Robin has spent the past several years researching pibroch, the seventeenth-century Gaelic bagpipe musical form, and his research will be published in Scotland in an anthology of related scholarship. As an extension of this work he organizes recitals to expose this rarely-heard music to a wider audience. He has played the Highland bagpipes since 2004, focusing on baroque-era repertoire. He is founder and director of El Salto, a unique forum for contemporary music performed in a context of broad-minded spiritual inquiry from secular and religious perspectives (visit www.el-salto.org). His article on the project appeared in Liturgy magazine. He is a doctoral candidate in composition at the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and he previously studied music at Vassar College. His teachers have been Annea Lockwood, Richard Wilson, Ingram Marshall, Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick, and Aaron Jay Kernis. He is a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, the American Choral Directors Association, the Society of Composers, Inc., and the National Association of Composers, USA. He lives in New York City, where he has worked as orchestra manager of the S.E.M. Ensemble, editorial assistant at music publisher G. Schirmer/AMP, librarian at the Kaufman Center, and as a freelance choral singer and music copyist. He has sung in a variety of professional choral ensembles. |
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