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Biography
GRAMMY®-winning composer Robert Livingston Aldridge (1954, Richmond,VA) has received numerous fellowships and awards for his music from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist's Foundation, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, Meet the Composer, The American Symphony Orchestra League, the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. His opera, Elmer Gantry, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, with a libretto by Herschel Garfein, was given its fully-staged world premiere by Nashville Opera in November, 2007. The Naxos CD of Elmer Gantry was released in July, 2011, and received two GRAMMY® Awards in 2012: for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and for Best Engineered Classical Recording. Opera News ranked the Naxos recording of Elmer Gantry #1 in the Best Opera Recordings of the Year, 2011.
He has been Composer-in-Residence at the Brevard Music Festival since 2006. He was an American Orchestral League/Music Alive Composer in Residence and has been a Composer-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival, the University of Minnesota and Colorado University. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony on five occasions since 1987. In 1989, he was chosen to represent the New York Foundation for the Arts in a solo concert of his music at Lincoln Center. He was a founder of the Composers in Red Sneakers, a composer consortium which achieved international recognition in 1980's. In 1991 he received a National Endowment Recording Grant for a compact-disc of his chamber music for saxophone. His compositions are exclusively published by Edition Peters (CF Peters Corporation)
Robert Livingston Aldridge received a Doctorate in Composition from the Yale School of Music, a Master's Degree in Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was Professor of Composition at Montclair State University 200-2012, Director of the Cali School, 2006-2009 and Chair of the Music Department, 2005-2011. Currently he is Professor and Director of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | The Opera Fund: Repertoire Development | 2013 | The Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase | 2013 | The Opera Fund: Audience Development | 2007 | The Opera Fund: Audience Development | 2005 | Opera for a New America | 1993 | Opera for a New America | 1991 |
Productions
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Artist Information
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