Robinson McClellan
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Robinson McClellan (b.1976) is a composer, scholar, teacher, and concert presenter. His music seeks a highly personal expression and explores some of the fundamental and primal impulses and processes that draw people to make music. These preoccupations have found expression in a diverse output ranging from standard concert music and experimental works, to music for the Highland bagpipe, to congregational songs designed to be taught by ear.
Robin’s choral, orchestral, band, and chamber music is performed regularly in the U.S. and Europe, and has been heard in concert and liturgical settings such as the Oregon Bach Festival, Windsor Castle, the Monteverdi Choir Festival (Hungary), the Vatican, and others. Commissions have come from the Albany Symphony (NY), the Museum of Biblical Art (NY), Yale Schola Cantorum, and others, and his music has been played by the Fort Worth Symphony (TX), the Pharos Music Project (NY), and the Lirico Chamber Singers, among others. He has received composition awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, and Vassar College. Several of his sacred choral songs appear in Music by Heart, an Episcopal hymnal.
His musical interests range from sacred music of the Christian and Islamic traditions, liturgical drama and early music, to traditions from around the world. He has spent the past several years immersed in pibroch, a rarely heard, baroque-era musical form from Gaelic Scotland.
Robin’s choral, orchestral, band, and chamber music is performed regularly in the U.S. and Europe, and has been heard in concert and liturgical settings such as the Oregon Bach Festival, Windsor Castle, the Monteverdi Choir Festival (Hungary), the Vatican, and others. Commissions have come from the Albany Symphony (NY), the Museum of Biblical Art (NY), Yale Schola Cantorum, and others, and his music has been played by the Fort Worth Symphony (TX), the Pharos Music Project (NY), and the Lirico Chamber Singers, among others. He has received composition awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, and Vassar College. Several of his sacred choral songs appear in Music by Heart, an Episcopal hymnal.
His musical interests range from sacred music of the Christian and Islamic traditions, liturgical drama and early music, to traditions from around the world. He has spent the past several years immersed in pibroch, a rarely heard, baroque-era musical form from Gaelic Scotland.
