Robert S.

Robert composes fresh and expressive art music for the modern era. In 2018, his music was played at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, and will be played the SCI National Conference and the Art Song Lab in Vancouver. In 2017, his music was played or performed at the Source Song Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the New Music Festival and University of Nebraska-Kearney, the TUTTI Festival, and the SCI Region VI conference. His music has been broadcast twice on WPRB Princeton in Marvin Rosen’s 25-hour new music marathon, and once on Hawaii Public Radio, in the program “Singing and Other Sins.” His fixed media work Contrabassoonists Summon a Spaceship appeared on the album Sn which can be found on iTunes and Spotify. Recently, his work Refugees was selected for the SCI CD Series Vol. 32. The commissions he has received include a LDS Barlow Commission for the Missouri Quintet, a Sinquefield Sheldon Commission for an ensemble of players from the St. Louis Symphony, a Sinquefield commission, a work for scholar Mark Scuichetti in 4 different styles of mid-twentieth century composers, an arrangement of the Columbia College Fight Song, and a Sinquefield Scholarship commissions. He has successfully secured the call for scores in the Acqua Ensemble, the Daniel Blitz Clavichord Project, the Opus C FSU call for scores, and the Fifteen-Minutes of Fame for the Third Wheel Trio. His work Prairie Dog Rhapsody received a special mention at the 2016 Alfred Schnittke Composers' Forum and Competition and as a result was published by Aldebaran Editions. His symphonic work From the Book of the Dead was a winner in the Missouri Orchestra Composers project. He also won the Force Majeure Woodwind Quintet competition, the FSU Eppes Quartet Competition, Pre-Written Category, and the Boston Metro Opera International Composer's Competition Festival Award in the opera category. He was a two-time finalist for the Morton Gould ASCAP awards, a finalist for the Symphony Number One Call for Scores, a finalist for the Sinquefield Prize, and finalist in the Verdant Vibes Call for Scores. His church choral works can be found on. Robert has a doctorate degree in composition from Florida State University, as well as degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia (MM Composition), and the University of Northern Colorado (MM Oboe Performance, BM Composition and Oboe Performance).