Robert Anton Strobel

Composer

Years at Source: 2017
Biography: Robert Strobel composes art music relevant to our times. Commissions he has received through time include a work for the Ladyslipper Ensemble, an LDS Barlow Commission for the Missouri Quintet, a Mizzou New Music Initiative-funded work for some string players of the St. Louis Symphony, and [TriO]: in total 19 funded projects in all. In 2020, his work Scenes From The High Prairie won NFA Newly Published Music Competition in the Flute Ensemble category. In 2019 he undertook an artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. That year, he won the Southwest American Prize in the electronic music category. His music has been broadcast on WPRB Princeton in Marvin Rosen’s 25-hour new music marathon, and on Hawaii Public Radio, in the program “Singing and Other Sins.” His music is published by Holy Sheet Music, Aldebaran Editions in Italy, and Forton Music in the UK. Robert Strobel has a doctorate degree from Florida State University, where he studied with Mark Wingate and bi-yearly with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Website: www.robertantonstrobel.com
Source Moment: As a composer, I enjoyed watching the masterclasses for the singers run by a well known artist. It was amazing to get firsthand insight into purely artistic comments for famous art songs. I also got a good idea of what I wanted in a singer/pianist as a composer.

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