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Hailed by the press as "highly gifted," having "creative powers working on a higher plane" and writing "exuberant and rhythmically vital music marked by energy and a wonderful sense of color," Composer Robert Paterson's richly colorful, wildly eclectic and intensely rhythmic music is increasingly in demand by musicians and audiences alike. Influenced by the past and present as well as visual art, nature, and machines, Paterson's recent compositions are inspired by everything from the changing seasons, crashing waves and Dali's melting clocks to animated cartoons and the life of New York Mets Baseball catcher Mike Piazza. A Copland Award recipient, recent performances included the European premiere and sixteen additional performances of Dancing Games by the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (France), Jonathan Schiffman, conducting, Wind Quintet by the Philharmonia Quintet (Poland), Embracing the Wind by the Aureole Trio and New York Harp Trio, Bright Horizons, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the IHS Orchestra and the world premiere of Crimson Earth by the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble under Jeffrey Renshaw. Recent premieres include the Louisville Orchestra world premiere of Electric Lines, a work previously selected for the Minnesota Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra's Whitaker New Music Readings, a new song cycle for baritone and chamber ensemble called Winter Songs for baritone-bass David Neal and the Society for New Music, commissioned through the New Yok State Music Fund, and a new work for the American Modern Ensemble called Eating Variations, for baritone and chamber ensemble. Other ensembles that have performed Paterson's works include The New York New Music Ensemble, Fireworks Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, California EAR Unit, Cygnus, Ensemble Aleph (Paris), Ensemble Nouvelles Consonances (Belgium), the Kairos String Quartet, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, the MANCA Festival presented by the Centre National de Creation Musicale (CIRM) and the June in Buffalo new music festival. Upcoming and recent commissions through the 2009-10 season include Eternal Reflections for the Volti choir of San Francisco, Tongue and Groove alto sax and marimba played with six mallets for Jeremy Justeson and a consortium of saxophonists and a new work entitled The Book of Goddesses for the MAYA trio and choreographed dancers. Paterson is also working on a new, feature-length, two-act opera entitled A Child Possessed, based on the award-winning book by R.C. Hutchinson, with writer and librettist David Cote. Paterson has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Aspen Music Festival, Cornell University and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, in addition to grants and awards from Meet The Composer, the American Music Center, ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the Copland Award and the Society for New Music's Brian M. Israel Prize. Paterson appears on recordings for Mode Records, Bridge Records, Centaur Records, Capstone, and Riax. Born in 1970, Paterson was raised in Buffalo, New York, the son of a sculptor and a painter. Although his first love was percussion, he soon discovered a passion for composition, writing his first piece at age thirteen. Paterson is active as a professional percussionist and pioneered the development of a six-mallet marimba technique, presenting the world's first all six-mallet marimba recital at the Eastman School of Music in 1993. Paterson has received degrees from Eastman (BM), Indiana University (MM), and Cornell University (DMA), and his composition teachers include Frederick Fox, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Roberto Sierra, and Steven Stucky. He resides in New York City with his wife, Victoria, a violinist with whom he formed the American Modern Ensemble, and their two-year-old son Dylan. [January, 2010]

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Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Sun Trio	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:40:00
Winter Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2008	00:20:00
Eating Variations	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2006	00:08:30
The Essence of Gravity	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2005	00:15:00
Enlightened City	Orchestra	2005	00:08:00
Stepping Into The Batter's Box	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2005	00:18:00
Komodo	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2004	00:04:00
Electric Lines	Orchestra	2004	00:08:30
The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2004	00:08:30
Wind Quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2004	00:18:00
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:20:00
Skylights	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:09:15
Symphony in Three Movements	Orchestra	2002	00:19:00
Suite for String Orchestra	Orchestra	2001	00:15:00
Closet Full of Demons	Orchestra	2001	00:06:30
Sonata for Bassoon and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:15:00
Braids	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:07:30
Links & Chains	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:05:15
Stealing Thunder	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:09:00
Thursday	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:12:00
Four Walden Canons	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1999	00:05:00
Crimson Earth	Band	1999	00:15:00
Embracing the Wind	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:10:00
Star Crossing	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:08:15
Sextet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:08:15
String Quartet No. 1	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:22:00
Fanfare	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:05:00
Meditation	Keyboard	1997	00:04:00
Quintus	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:06:30
Variations & Fantasies on an Accordion Song	Keyboard	1995	00:08:30
Journey Into Courage Suite	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1995	00:13:00
Up North	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1994	00:14:30
Postludes Nos. 1-3	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1993	00:09:00
That's Amore	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:06:00
Fantasia for Tuba and Marimba	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:06:00
Excerptia Overture	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1991	00:00:00
Christmas Time	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:10:00
Merry Go Round	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1990	00:02:45
The Biographies of Solitude	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1990	00:08:00
Overture for Brass Quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:05:15
Expressions	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1989	00:05:00
Duo for Flute and Marimba	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1989	00:15:00
Prison Cell	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1989	00:10:00
Humanus Ex Machina	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1989	00:15:00
Voices	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1988	00:05:30
Sabulum Reptilia	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1985	00:15:00
Helter Skelter	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1984	00:08:30


American Modern Ensemble: Powerhouse Pianists II The American Modern Ensemble's final concerts of the season will feature our pianists Stephen Gosling and Blair McMillen performing works for two pianos, including Hallelujah Junction by John Adams, Chiaroscuro by John Corigliano, Kilter by Mary Ellen Chi	6/25/2010 08:00 PM Faust Harrison Pianos 205 West 58th Street New York NY 10019 us	Phone:(212) 489-0666 Email:info@americanmodernensemble.org Web:www.americanmodernensemble.org
American Modern Ensemble: Powerhouse Pianists II The American Modern Ensemble's final concerts of the season will feature our pianists Stephen Gosling and Blair McMillen performing works for two pianos, including Hallelujah Junction by John Adams, Chiaroscuro by John Corigliano, Kilter by Mary Ellen Chi	6/24/2010 08:00 PM Faust Harrison Pianos 205 West 58th Street New York NY 10019 us	Phone:(212) 489-0666 Email:info@americanmodernensemble.org Web:www.americanmodernensemble.org
MAYA Commissions Concert Program of premieres, including the world premiere of The Book of Goddesses for flute, harp and percussion. Other works on the program by Yotam Haber and Gabriel Erkoreka.	6/8/2010 08:00 PM Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South New York NY 10012-1018 us	Phone:(212) 477-0351 Email: Web:http://www.judson.org/
Volti Choir of San Francisco World premiere of On The Day The World Ends by Robert Paterson, a new choral work commissioned by Volti. This work consists of settings of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Mary E. Frye. Tickets available online or at the door.	5/15/2009 08:00 PM St. Mark's Episcopal Church 2300 Bancroft Way Berkeley CA 94704 us	Phone:(510) 848-5107 Email: info@voltisf.org Web:www.voltisf.org
American Modern Ensemble concert: What's So Funny? Performance of Stepping Into The Batter's Box, He Hears His Father's Voice for tenor and piano, Paul Sperry, tenor. I will also be conducting at least one other work. Tickets $35, $30 (Students & Seniors).	4/27/2009 07:30 PM The Times Center 242 West 41st Street New York NY 10018 us	Phone:800-272-9533 Email:timescenter@nytimes.com Web:www.americanmodernensemble.org
Volti Choir of San Francisco World premiere of On The Day The World Ends by Robert Paterson, a new choral work commissioned by Volti. This work consists of settings of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Mary E. Frye. Tickets available online or at the door.	4/16/2009 08:00 PM St. Gregory of Nyssa Church 500 De Haro Stree San Francisco CA 94107 us	Phone:415. 771. 3352 Email:iinfo@voltisf.org Web:www.voltisf.org
Kimberly Rowe Faculty Recital Performance of Embracing the Wind by harpist Kimberly Rowe. She will be accompanied by flutist Heather Fortune, violist Scott Wagner and others. Free Admission.	11/5/2008 08:00 PM Boyd Recital Hall, Rowan University 85 Girard Rd. Glassboro NJ 08028 us	Phone:856.256.4000 Email:music@rowan.edu Web:www.rowan.edu/colleges/fpa/music/
New York Harp Trio concert Performance of Embracing the Wind by Robert Paterson by the New York Harp Trio. Tickets Online: AU $25.	10/21/2008 07:00 PM Australian National Academy Of Music South Melbourne Town Hall Main Hall, 210 Bank St. South Melbourne 3205 au	Phone:61 3 9645 7911 Email:info@anam.com.au Web:www.robpaterson.com/pages/performances/upcoming.html
Ming Tsu and Friends, Music at the Court concert World Premiere of Sun Trio for violin, cello and piano. This work will be premiered by a new trio, consisting of Ming Tsu, piano, Lorenz Gamma, violin and Joon Sung Jun, cello. I will be at this concert. Tickets Online or at the Door (General Admission): $25; student/senior discounts available.	10/19/2008 07:00 PM Boston Court Theater 70 North Mentor Avenue Pasadena CA 91116 us	Phone:626-683-6883 Email: Web:http://www.bostoncourt.com/zeb_show.htm
New York Harp Trio concert Performance of Embracing the Wind by the New York Harp Trio. Free admission.	10/13/2008 01:10 PM The University of Melbourne Conservatorium Building (near Gate 12) Victoria au	Phone:84 002 705 224 Email:music-webmaster@unimelb.edu.au Web:www.robpaterson.com/pages/performances/upcoming.html
New York Harp Trio concert Performance of Embracing the Wind by Robert Paterson, performed by the New York Harp Trio. THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT.	10/11/2008 11:30 AM Port Ferry Spring Music Festival Port Ferry Victoria au	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.portfairyspringfest.com.au/
Charles McCracken Recital: Works for Bassoon World premiere of Elegy for two bassoons and piano by Robert Paterson. This work was commissioned by Charles McCracken and Gordon Harris through the American Composers Forum. The program will include two other 20th century works, a transcription of Debutante by Herbert L. Clarke and the rarely heard Sonata for Bassoon and Piano by Alvin Etler, as well as Baroque works by Zelenka and Corrette. Charles will be joined by Gilbert Dejean, bassoon and Elizabeth DiFelice, piano. Gilbert and Charles are both members of the American Symphony Orchestra's bassoon section.	10/5/2008 07:00 PM Christ & St. Steven's Episcopal Church 120 West 69th Street (between Broadway & Columbus) New York NY 10023 us	Phone:212-787-2755 Email:admin@csschurch.org Web:www.robpaterson.com/pages/performances/upcoming.html
American Modern Ensemble concert: Women Who Rock Entitled Women Who Rock, this program features music by eight of America's most exciting composers, including American Academy Award-winner Augusta Read Thomas, New York's own Missy Mazzoli, Vivian Fung and Alexandra du Bois. We will also perform music by Gabriella Frank, Hannah Lash, Roshanne Etezady and Laura Schwendinger. AME's Artistic Director Rob Paterson will interview the composers, and the concert will be followed by a reception where audience members can meet all of the artists and composers. PROGRAM Lies You Can Believe In - Missy Mazzoli Stalk* - Hannah Lash Dopo il duol, Dopo il mal (After Sorrow, After Woe) -Alexandra du Bois Adagio para Amantani - Gabriela Frank Miniatures - Vivian Fung Mother-of-Pearl* - Roshanne Etezady High Wire Act* - Laura Schwendinger Passion Prayers* -Augusta Read Thomas ARTISTS Sato Moughalian, flute Meighan Stoops, clarinet Robin Zeh, violin Victoria Paterson, violin Danielle Farina, viola Arash Amini, cello Robert Burkhart, cello Jacqueline Kerrod, harp Pablo Rieppi, percussion Matt Ward, percussion Stephen Gosling, piano Blair McMillen, piano Robert Paterson, conductor	9/29/2008 07:30 PM The Times Center 242 W. 41st St. New York NY 10018 us	Phone:800-272-9533 Email:timescenter@nytimes.com Web:www.americanmodernensemble.org
American Modern Ensemble concert: North Country Purchase tickets online: $25, $20 (Students/Seniors) Or call 800-272-9533 to order by phone. New York premiere of Winter Songs for bass-baritone and chamber ensemble by Robert Paterson, David Neal, bass-baritone. Tickets $25, $20 (Students & Seniors). PROGRAM: Four on the Floor - Libby Larsen Into the Morning Rain* - Dennis Bathory-Kitsz A Garden for RKB - Elliot Schwartz Dark Wind* - John Luther Adams Winter Songs* - Robert Paterson Courtship Songs - Stephen Paulus Artists David Neal, bass-baritone Sato Moughalian, flute Sarah Schram, oboe Benjamin Fingland, clarinet Meighan Stoops, clarinet Robin Zeh, violin Victoria Paterson, violin Danielle Farina, viola Robert Burkhart, cello Eric Jacobsen, cello Sean McClowry, double bass Stephen Gosling, piano Blair McMillen, piano Robert Paterson, conductor	1/25/2008 07:30 PM The Times Center 242 West 41st Street New York NY 10018 us	Phone:800-272-9533 Email:timescenter@nytimes.com Web:www.americanmodernensemble.org