ABOUT

Robert is a multi-genre music composer based in the UK. He loves storytelling through collaboration, and has had his music played by orchestras such as the Britten Sinfonia and in vunes across the UK. With a background in both orchestral music and sound design and main instruments as percussion and piano, he aims to break new ground whilst keeping the best parts from our rich musical history which are most important. Below that is a description about how the elements drive Robert’s approach in music making, biography is at the bottom.

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THE PROCESS

Three examples of musical experiments which have contributed towards Robert’s musical style. “Accessibility in music is important, but the experiments that lead to innovation are equally valued” R.S.

THE ELEMENTS

I am driven by a deep compulsion to the elements. To uncover what is beneath things, within the music and beyond.

There is so much unexplored area that lays in between music genres, and so unearthing the elements that lay common to them is key in understanding how to cover new ground. Modern recording techniques give us an extremely extended range of sound pallets, but there is so much to learn from the musical instruments that have given us extreme controll of sound in the past.

Now with a virtually unlimited range of recorded sounds at our disposal, I feel the importance in understanding what made music from the past good, and how can the elements behind this drive how we move forward to cover new ground.

I also find it fascinating thinking about what music means to us. Can it bring us back to our routes? I am so interested in themes such as earth, soil, fire, water, wind, wood. They are a comfort to think about sometimes in such a processed world.

In my live pieces, if they help to bring some stillness to people in an otherwise chaotic world, I feel that is something worth while doing

BIOGRAPHY

Robert combines orchestral music together with sound design and synthesis to make music with innovation in mind. His music has been played by the Britten Sinfonia in venues such as the London Wigmore Hall, theatres and numerous other venues across the UK. His instrumental background is in Percussion and Piano.

At Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Robert worked with Jaquline Jones, Steve Nestar and award-winning theatre director, Mark Babych, composing music for theatrical pieces. He was also asked to write the introduction music for his graduation ceremony for the procession led by Paul McCartney. During his Masters in Music Composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Robert further explored the connection of music and dance, eventually composing and jointly directing the first live ballet to be performed at the college with orchestra and Wales based dancers. 

In 2019 Robert won the Britten Sinfonia Opus prize for his work ‘Watercraft’, combining classical music with folk voice, judged by Sir James McMillan. It was performed by Scottish radio star -Mary Ann Turner on it’s UK premier tour. Robert has also worked with Soprano Chanae Curtis (praised for her attractive singing by the New York Times) on a song cycle entitled ‘The Hurricane’. Robert’s work with theatre has continued with the recent opening of Howard’s End at the Golden Goose theatre in London, the Welsh tour of ‘It’s A wonderful life’. Robert also attended composition tutoring sessions with BASCA award winning composer Graham Fitkin in recent years.

Currently Robert has several of his theatre pieces touring the UK, including works with the Lighthouse Theatre, Thomos Page Dances and Mark Farrely, with more pieces to come in the near future.

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