Dr. Scott Robbins
Assistant Dean
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition
DM, Florida State University
MA, Duke
BA in Music Wake Forest
scott.robbins@converse.edu
864-596-9001
Blackman Music Hall, Room 210A

Listen to pieces that Dr. Scott Robbins has composed.  
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"The Heart's Trapeze" (0:00-1:46, 10:38-12:47)

"Passage" (0:15-4:56)

"Sliver Moon" ( 0:00-2:38)

"3 Blues for Cello and Trumpet" (first movement, third movement)

"Micro-Symphony" (first movement)

Scott Robbins teaches composition and music theory and serves as Assistant Dean of the Petrie School of Music . He joined the faculty at the Petrie School in 1998 and served as Chair of the Department of Musicology and Composition from 1999-2005. In 2005 he became the first faculty member from the School of Music to receive Converse College’s O’Herron Faculty Excellence Award. A native of Boone, North Carolina, he began his musical training as a drummer and guitarist in rock bands. Dr. Robbins’ compositions are widely performed and professionally recognized, having received over 50 awards, including the Second International Sergei Prokofiev Composition Competition , Yale University’s Norfolk National Composition Prize, NACUSA Young Composers Award, ASCAP Foundation Grant to Young Composers, American Music Center Composer Assistance Award, Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and multiple awards from ASCAP and commissions from the SC Music Teachers Association. Among those who have performed and/or commissioned and/or commercially recorded Scott’s works are the Czech Radio Symphony, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Moyzes Quartet, Ensemble Radieuse, the Gregg Smith Singers, and the Dale Warland Singers. The Clearing, a film for which Scott composed the soundtrack, received the CINE-Eagle award and has been broadcast on Bravo and HBO.

Recordings of Dr. Robbins' music include "Micro-Symphony" by the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Jerzy Swoboda, conductor), which is featured on the 1999 MMC release New Century, vol. XIII. and "The Heart's Trapeze" by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Valek, conductor), which appears on the 2002 release MMC New Century, vol. XIV. His string quartet, "Fortressed House," by the Moyzes Quartet, also is scheduled for release by MMC Recordings, as well as an upcoming recording of "3 Blues" by the American Chamber Ensemble for "4-Tay" Recordings.

Representative Works:

Chamber Music
Abating Autumn, flute, viola, and harp, 2004
Adagio (good-bye to Melissa and Matthew), flute, horn, and piano, 1995
Antiphonal Fanfare, brass ensemble, 1996
Approaching Autumn, fantasy-duo for violin and piano, 1993
Awakening Autumn, clarinet, English horn, and piano, 1997
(alternate version for clarinet, trumpet, piano, and percussion, 2000)
Chamber Concerto, flute and eight wind instruments, 1995
Commissioned by the National Flute Association
Elastic Frequencies, variations for flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, and piano, 1990 (revised 1995)
Fortressed House, string quartet, 1991
Recorded by the Moyzes Quartet for Master Musicians Collective Recording Project
Introitus: on the carol “O come, o come, Emmanuel,” brass quartet, 1996
Latitudes, small chamber orchestra, 1991
Maiden Voyage, piano, marimba, and electronic tape, 1997
Moderagilegro, violin and marimba, 1996
Pan: a stereophonic suite for ten flutes, 1995
Percussion Trio #1, 1988 (revised 1996)
Percussion Trio #2, 1989 (revised 1995)
Psychedelic Epigrams, flute, oboe, violin, cello, and two pianos, 2005
Commissioned by the South Carolina Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2006
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano (“Change of Address”), 2002
Receding Lullaby, Ceremonial Music for Trumpet, Horn, Percussion, and Organ, 1990
Samba and Epilogue, horn, flute, viola, and harp, 1993
the sky, waiting (…to get cloudy), guitar duet, 1987
Sonata for Flute and Oboe, 1999
Recorded by Ensemble Radieuse
Suite for Viol Consort, 1997/2000
Sweet Dreams for Spooky (A Lullaby), flute, harp, and viola, 2002
(alternate versions for flute, piano, and English horn or flute, piano, and oboe)
Three Blues for Cello and Trumpet, 1988 (revised 1995)
Published by Brazinmusikanta Music
Recording scheduled by American Chamber Ensemble for “4-Tay” recordings
Three Sketches, flute and guitar, 2004
Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (“Address”), 1999/2005

Choral Music
Alma Maria, Converse College alma mater arrangement for women’s voices, 2002
Benedicti Mundi Cordis: A Choral Prayer, SATB chorus, 1987
(alternate version for TTBB Men’s Chorus, 1994)
Demon and Violets, SSA chorus and piano, 1999
(alternate version for SATB chorus and piano, 2002)
The Distant Galilee, SATB chorus, 2004
Herod's Throne: Carol for Christmas, SATB chorus and flute, 2003
(alternate version for SATB chorus, 2003)
Name Me This River, SATB chorus, 1997
O God, Our Help in Ages Past / Isaiah 46:9-10, SATB choir and organ, 2000
Passage, SSA chorus and piano, 2000
(alternate version for SATB chorus and piano, 2001)
Shall We Gather at the River?, SATB chorus and organ, 2004
Silent Night! Holy Night!, SSA chorus + soprano soloist, 1999
Sliver Moon, SATB chorus and piano, 1995
Published by Frank E. Warren Music Service
Commissioned for Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program, 1996
Two Lullabies, SSA Women’s Chorus, 2002
Wash Me Gently in the Black Water of Heaven, SSA chorus and bells, 2002
(alternate version for SATB chorus and bells, 2003)
When Jesus Christ was Yet a Child, SATB chorus and recorder, 2004

Film Music
The Clearing, film soundtrack, 1991
CINE-Eagle Award of the Committee on International Non-Theatrical Events Cross and Water Music, 1990
The Year of the Rat, film soundtrack, 1992
MIDI recording by the composer

Orchestral / Band Music
Chaconne, string orchestra and chimes, 2003
Conjure Something Glowing, chorus and orchestra, 2001
Conundrums, chamber orchestra, 1995
Conversessional, orchestra, 1999
(alternate version for wind ensemble, 2003)
The Heart’s Trapeze, orchestra, 1994
Recorded by the Czech Radio Symphony for MMC Recordings “MMC New Century, Vol. XIV”
Micro-Symphony, orchestra, 1993
Recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic for MMC Recordings “MMC New Century, Vol. XIII”
Q. N. F., for chamber orchestra, 1988-1989
Somnambulata, a sleepwalk for wind ensemble, 2002
Spooky Does the Bunny-Hop (Extended Orchestral Remix), orchestra, 2000
"...the still moment," orchestra, 1990
Triptych for Wind Ensemble, (Doctoral Dissertation), 1992

Solo
AbiyoyOboe, oboe and recorded sounds, 2001
Fantasy in F Minor, piano, 1996
Monody in Memory of Aaron Copland, piano, 1990
Prelude in B-flat Minor, piano, 1996
Ritual Meditations, piano, 2004
Two Movements for Marimba, 1998

Vocal/Choral Music
Angel Songs, mezzo-soprano, violin, cello, and celesta, 1994
Beat! Beat! Drums!, tenor and chamber ensemble, 1991
Blue Ridge A Cappella, female voice and piano, 2004
the hours rise up, for soprano and chamber ensemble, 1989
The Imprisoned Soul, soprano and chamber ensemble, 1991
Recorded for Col Legno - Aurophon Recordings, 1993
Just Like Job, tenor, flute, oboe, cello, and piano, 2001
Commissioned by the South Carolina Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association
Lovesick Birds from Appalachia, voice, flute, and oboe, 1999
Lullaby: A Motion Like Sleep, voice and piano, 1992
Whar All To, voice, flute, oboe, guitar, cello, and piano, 2003
Windblown Secrets Where My Heart Should Be, Five Songs on Poems by Beverly Hay, voice and piano, 2002
The Wounds We Live In, fantasy-cycle on the life of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, voice and piano, 2001
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2002

Awards
ASCAP Standard Awards, 1994-1995 through 2005-2006 distribution years
Converse College O'Herron Faculty Excellence Award, 2005
Converse College Curricular Innovation Award (Awarded to Department of Musicology and Composition), 2005
South Carolina Music Teachers’ Association Composers Commission, 2005
Loudoun Symphony Orchestra American Composers Competition, 2004
Governor's Distinguished Professor Award, 2004
Converse College Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award, 2003
Amadeus Choir Christmas Carol & Chanukah Song Writing Competition, First Prize, 2003
Red Stick International Composition Contest, Honorable Mention, 2003
Composers Guild 33rd Annual Composition Contest, 1st Prize -- Vocal Music, 2002
American Music Center Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program, 2001
New York Treble Singers Composition Contest, 3 rd Prize, 2001
South Carolina Music Teachers’ Association Composers Commission, 2001
American Composers Forum/Plymouth Music Series Orchestral Reading Project, 2001
Traynor International Competition for Viol Consort (finalist), 2000
Greater Boston Choral Consortium Composition Contest (2nd Prize), 2000
Roger Wagner Contemporary Choral Composition Competition, (finalist), 2000
Pastiche Composers Award, 2000
Composers Guild 30th Annual Composition Contest, 1st Prize - Choral Music, 1999
South Bay Master Chorale Choral Competition, (finalist), 1998
Gregg Smith Singers New Choral Works Reading Session, 1998
Second International Sergei Prokofiev Composition Competition, 2nd Prize, 1997
Composers Guild 28 th Annual Composition Contest, Second Prize - Band/Orchestra, 1997
G. Schirmer Young Americans Choral Award (finalist), 1997
Britten-on-the-Bay Composition Competition, 1 st Prize. 1997
Composers Guild 27th Annual Composition Contest, 1st Prize - Choral Music, 1996
Composers Guild 27th Annual Composition Contest, 3rd Prize - Instrumental Music, 1996
Dale Warland Singers New Choral Music Program, 1996
Phi Mu Alpha Composition Contest, (Iota Pi Chapter), First Prize, 1996
Composers Guild 26th Annual Composition Contest, Award of Excellence, 1995
Composers Guild 26th Annual Composition Contest, 2nd Prize - Instrumental Music, 1995
Composers Guild 26th Annual Composition Contest, 3rd Prize - Jazz Music, 1995
17th Annual NACUSA Young Composers' Competition, First Prize, 1995
Tampa Bay Composers' Forum Composition Competition, Honorable Mention, 1995
Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Program, Florida Department of State, 1994-1995
Norfolk National Composition Prize, Yale Summer School of Music, 1994
Thamyris Composition Prize, 1994 Wilmer Hayden Welsh Prize in Composition, 1994
Washington International Competition for Composers, Honorable Mention, 1994
Phi Mu Alpha Composition Contest, First Prize, 1994 
Wilmer Hayden Welsh Prize in Composition, 1994
Composers Guild Composition Contest, Honorable Mention - Orchestral Music, 1993
Composers Guild Composition Contest, Honorable Mention - Instrumental Music, 1993
ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers, 1992 
CINE-Eagle Award of the Committee on International Non-Theatrical Events, film The Clearing, 1992 
Mary Duke Biddle Fellowship in Music, Duke University: August 1988-December 1989
Wake Forest Competitions in 20th-Century Music, First Prize (guitar performance), 1987

Read Dr. Robbin's opinion editorial, "Left Behind on Abbey Road: Viewing the Apocalypse Through the Music of the Beatles" printed in the Charlotte Observer.