Robert Phillips University at Buffalo

Robert Phillips is an American chamber and electroacoustic music composer/performer whose music integrates a diverse vocabulary of sound samples, multimedia tools, and interrogative approaches to musical style. A range of microtonal and notational strategies are employed to inflect glissandi and vibrati variations within signature harmonic fields, and explore a broad, hyper-expressionist palette, across a diverse array of materials and samples from a variety of musical tropes and genres. His music has been featured at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Internationale Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Opéra de Lille, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Harvard University Summer Composition Institute, June in Buffalo, and BEAST FEaST 2017, and has been performed by the Ictus Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, Pascal Gallois, Rohan de Saram, Magnus Andersson, Heather Roche, and many others. He received his B.A. in music from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied composition with Chaya Czernowin and Steve Takasugi, and his Ph.D. in music composition from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he studied with David Felder. He has been based in Berlin, Germany, since 2014. His scores are published by Edition Gravis.