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, Boosey & Hawkes, Roncorp, and Apoll-Edition. His grants, prizes and residencies have come from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, Tanglewood, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Camargo Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross, Millay Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, the Aaron Copland House, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
He has been awarded a 2005 Chamber Music America commission for a string quintet written for the Miami String Quartet and Robert Black. An excerpt from his opera-in-progress Harmony (with novelist Russell Banks) was presented in May 2005 in the New York City Opera’s VOX Showcase series. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. New World Records released a CD of three large string chamber works in March 2006. In 2007, Carl received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council for travel to Japan to research contemporary Japanese composers, and he has been commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a book on the premiere of Terry Riley’s In C.
Other CD releases of his work are found on Neuma, Koch International, Lotus, Centaur, Vienna Modern Masters, E.R.M., and The Aerial. For fifteen years he was a co-director of the Extension Works new music ensemble in Boston; 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. He studies shakuhachi with Ralph Samuelson.
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Composer | Title | SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION | Year | |
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Robert Carl | Growth Fugue | string quartet
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Robert Carl | HAIKU OF BUSON |
Narrator/improviser, tape/CD |
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Robert Carl | Images of Birth |
orch: 2-2-2-bcl-2-cbsn; 4-3-3-1; perc(3); harp, pf/cel; solo vln; str |
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Robert Carl | IN FLIGHT TOGETHER/IN FLUG ZUSAMMEN | Violin and Organ
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Robert Carl | INEVITABLE WAVE for 8 percusionists and fixed media audio |
8 percussionists, audio playback |
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Robert Carl | INEVITABLE WAVE for chamber orchestra and fixed media audio | fl/dbl pic, ob, cl/bscl, Bari sax/dbl sop. sax, bsn; horn, tpt C, bstbn, tba, timp, perc(3), piano, strings
chamber orchestra, fixed media |
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Robert Carl | INFINITY AVENUE | improvisation ensemble, max MSP live sound processing
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Robert Carl | JYUN ON | 2 shakuhachi, 1 Ichigenkin
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Robert Carl | LA VILLE ENGLOUTIE | 4333 4331, timp (3), perc (4), db
4 fl (4th doubling picc), 3 ob (3rd doubling E.hn), 3 cl in Eb, Bs clar, sop-alt-ten-bari saxophone, 3 bsn, 4 hns, 3 tpt in C, 2 tenor tbn, bass tbn, euph, tuba, Timpani (3 drums), 4 perc; Cb. |
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Robert Carl | LESGEDOWNDAHEAH | tpt in C, 2 alsax, tensax, tbn, 2 elec gtr, bass gtr, 2 perc, pf
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Robert Carl | LIBERTY |
2pf, 3perc |
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Robert Carl | MAGIC ACT |
violin, marimba |
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Robert Carl | MARFANTASIE |
fl/alto fl, 2 alto sax, bscl, elec guit, Perc (1), 6 vlns, 2 vla, 2 vcl, 1 cb |
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Robert Carl | MATTER OF SCALE |
Chamber orchestra: pic/2-2-2-2; 2-2-0-0; perc; str |
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Robert Carl | NACH (TRAUM) IST KOMMEN | pf
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Robert Carl | NamasteDante | Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Harp, and Piano
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Robert Carl | NIGHT GARDEN | 5 Double Basses
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Robert Carl | ONE SLIPS, ONE SKIPS | 2 vln
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Robert Carl | Open | Violin, Viola, and Cello
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Robert Carl | OPEN EMPTY | mixed sextet: fl/pic, cl, perc(1), kbs, vln, vcl
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Robert Carl | OUR HEART AND HOME IS WITH INFINITUDE | Soprano and Piano
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Robert Carl | OUR MEETING IS INEVITABLE |
2 Trumpets in C, Horn in F, Tenor Trombone, Tuba |
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Robert Carl | PATH BETWEEN CLOUD AND LIGHT | String Quartet
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Robert Carl | PENSÉES NOCTURNES |
Sop, vln, vc, pf |
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Robert Carl | Piano Quartet: "Just Listen" | Piano Quartet
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