Here’s some wonderful photos from my work with BalletCollective., who premiered my 20-minute ballet Love Me While I’m Here, with choreography by Omar Román De Jesús.

Image of Kennedy Targosz, Ruby Lister, David Gabriel, Devin Alberda and Sebastián Villarini-Vélez in Love me while I’m here by Brendon Cook/BFA.com

Ruby Lister and David Garcia in “Love Me While I’m Here.” Photo © Whitney Browne.

Ruby Lister, David Gabriel, Devin Alberda, and Sebastián Villarini-Vélez in Love me while I’m here captured by Brendon Cook/BFA.com

Kennedy Targosz, Ruby Lister, David Gabriel and Devin Alberda in “Love Me While I’m Here.” Photo © Whitney Browne.

David Gabriel and Ruby Lister in rehearsal for Love me while I’m here.

Ensemble Connect premieres my Endless Landscape for ten performers in May! It’s been a joy collaborating with them and I hope you can attend the May 2nd performance.

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“Beautiful music from Robert Honstein and some handsome cinematography by James Blann for the cleverly deployed reenactments do a lot to drive this narrative forward.”

— DAN MECCA, THE FILM STAGE

Happy New Year!

Hello and welcome to 2022. I'd love to share some updates on upcoming projects!

First off, thank you for the kind words about my score for The Real Charlie Chaplin. The documentary is now available on SHOWTIME (streaming and TV). The UK Theatrical Premiere is February 18th, 2022.

In other news, Ensemble Connect will premiere a new work for large chamber ensemble on May 2nd, 2022, in Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing. Save the date!

In commission news, I'm excited to be finishing up a work for Vibraphone and String Quartet for The Vibraphone Project (Premiere TBD). And later this Spring I will be working on a project with Theo Bleckmann and the Mondrian Ensemble, with a premiere (fingers crossed, Covid) set for early June in Switzerland.

Thanks for tuning in,
Robert

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And as a reminder, The Real Charlie Chaplin is streaming through DOC NYC from November 13-28. More info here.

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Hi friends!

After making the rounds at film festivals across the globe, The Real Charlie Chaplin, a documentary featuring my original score, will premiere on Showtime Saturday, December 11th at 8:00pm ET/PT.

If you want to watch the film before December, it will be presented live at DOC NYC (November 12, 6:45pm at the Cinépolis Chelsea) and AFI FEST in Los Angeles (November 14, 12:15pm at the TCL Chinese Theatre). DOC NYC will also be streaming the film November 13-28, 2021. There will also be a limited theatrical release Cinema Village (New York) and Laemmle Monica (Los Angeles) starting Friday, November 19. The film will premiere in UK cinemas on March 4th, 2022.

I am very proud of the final score which features about 60 minutes of original music cues. The score was recorded in March and the film premiered at Telluride in September. On the music side of the project, I’d like to give a shout out to the musicians who recorded the score as well as those that helped behind the scenes:

Issy Gleicher, flute
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Brad Balliett, bassoon
Karl Larson, piano
Matt Evans, percussion
David Degge, dulcimer

Clara Kim, violin
Lauren Cauley, violin
Hannah Levinson, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Pat Swoboda, bass

Bridget Samuels, music supervision
Jon Senge, copyist
David Stevens, project manager
Ryan Streber, Engineer, Oktaven Audio

Thanks for tuning in,
Robert

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We are excited to let you know about three important releases this fall!

1. Evergreen, for two percussionists, had its live premiere in September, featuring the outstanding Seattle-based Arx Duo. They have upcoming performances in Bellevue, WA (livestreamed), Omaha, NE, and Mission Woods, KS.

2. The brand new Echolocate, commissioned for saxophone and percussion by the Hutchens/Myers Duo, receives its premiere October 26th at the University of South Carolina.

3. My first film score for The Real Charlie Chaplin is making the festival rounds this Fall. See a review here. It premiered a Telluride and will be released in theaters this fall and then air on Showtime.

THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Courtesy of SHOWTIME / TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL

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Arx Duo premieres Evergreen, a 30-minute, five movement percussion duo, presented by Seattle’s Sustain Music Project.

Presented by Sustain Music Project
Performed by arx duo (Garrett Arney and Mari Yoshinaga)
Artwork by Eva Vernitska

Lost and Found was premiered on September 22 by Michael Compitello in the Tribeca New Music Festival at the Cell Theater, New York, NY.

Drawing on years of close collaboration with percussionist Michael Compitello, the resulting piece is a multi-movement new work for solo marimba with distinctive approach to the instrument that seamlessly integrates traditional playing with unconventional sounds and objects. Lost and Found, builds a narrative of nostalgia and memory from the idiosyncratic union of marimba and junk objects.

Commissioned by Michael Compitello, this work owes it’s creation to the consortium of thirty-three percussionists, including: Megan Arns, Mark Boseman, Michael Burritt, Matthew Carey, Benjamin Charles, Gabriel Costache, Gwen Dease, Corey Denham, Matthew Ernster, Thomas Faulkner, Maria Finkelmeier, Ben Fraley, Adam Groh, Piero Guimares, Sean Harvey, Ji Hye Jung, Ayano Kataoka, Tony Kirk, Terry Longshore, Colin Malloy, Dan Morphy, Chris Jackson, Yun Ju Pan, Robert Rocheteau, Matt Sharrock, Chris Sies, Neil Sisauyhoat, John Smigielski, Jeff Stern, Jen Torrence, Mike Truesdell, Eric Willie and Andrew Wright.

Please visit the work page HERE for the recording, perusal score, and full program notes.