Gregory Robin (D.M.A., University of Alabama) is a composer, guitarist, and music educator based in Lafayette, Louisiana. He leads a varied musical career as a composer, music theorist, and guitarist.

 

 

Gregory’s music explores timbre, rhythmic partitioning of motivic elements, and the juxtaposition of dynamic contrast and musical interruption. Through a tightly controlled yet intuitive process, motivic aspects of pitch, rhythm, and timbre join together to form a cohesive and organic whole. The musical language of his compositions is influenced by his studies with C.P. First, Tristan Murail, and Mario Davidovsky.

 

Many festivals have selected his music for performance. Selections include:

Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Batture Contemporary, Future Places Festival, New Music on the Bayou, Electroacoustic Juke Joint Festival, University of Central Missouri New Music Festival, and the Sugar Mill Music Festival.

 

As a guitarist, he has had masterclasses with Lily Afshar, Mary Akerman, Manuel Barrueco, Franco Platino, Susan McDonald, Robert Trent, Aliesksey Vianna, and Andrew Zohn. Gregory has performed classical and electric guitar in various venues and recital halls in Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

 

As an academic, his paper “Mahler, Fin de Siècle Vienna, and Spiritual Conversion: Mahler's Conversion from Judaism to Catholicism and its Cause and Effects” was selected to be read at the 6th Biennial New Orleans Music Theory and Musicology Colloquium, Loyola University New Orleans. Dr. Robin’s article on Yan Maresz’s Metalliques is published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal, October 2017 issue.

 

As an educator, he has taught at Central Carolina Community College, South Louisiana Community College, the University of Alabama, Jacksonville State University, Western Carolina University, and Lafayette High School. Currently, he serves as the guitar instructor at Comeaux High School.  Gregory is a member of the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Music Educators Association, where he chairs the Guitar Committee.

 

Gregory holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, a M.M. in Performance from the University of South Carolina, and a D.M.A. in Music Composition, with a minor in Musicology, from the University of Alabama.