Robert CARL

Profile

Robert Carl (b.1954) studied composition with Jonathan Kramer, George Rochberg, Ralph Shapey, and Iannis Xenakis. His music is performed throughout the US and Europe, and is published by American Composers' Alliance. He was awarded a 2005 Chamber Music America commission for a string quintet written for the Miami String Quartet and Robert Black. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2006-07 he received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council for travel to Japan to research contemporary Japanese composers, and Oxford University Press has recently published his book Terry Riley's In C. He is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, and writes extensively on new music for Fanfare Magazine.