Robert is a composer and pianist living in Brooklyn, NY. He recently finished the MMA degree at the Yale School of Music where he studied with David Lang, Chris Theofanidis and Martin Bresnick. Send me emails at rhonstein@gmail.com !

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Events

  • Thu 10.7.2010: New Haven
  • Mon 10.11.2010: Yale @ LPR
  • Sun 12.5.2010: Carnegie Hall

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Sleeping Giant @ LPR

This just in, on October 11th my piece Why are you not answering? will be performed at LPR. The show will also feature pieces by Jacob Cooper, Timo Andres, Ted Hearne and Chris Cerrone. For anyone in New Haven you can catch a preview of my piece at New Music New Haven on thursday October 7h.

News, News, News!

Some news to report. More details to follow. The summer is shaping up to be jam-packed with action and excitement. On June 5th my new choral work, a collection of a capella settings of Japanese Haiku for SATB choir, will be premiered by the Young New Yorker’s Chorus at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington, in New York City. On June 20th my arrangement of a Hildegard sequence, for Soprano, Cello, Organ and Wine glasses, will be performed by Lenore Alford and Leanne Zacharias at St. John’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, CA. In July I’m heading up to MASS Moca for three weeks of banging on cans, where I’ll also have a new piece for clarinet, guitar, percussion, piano, cello and double-bass premiered. And then in August it’s out to Santa Cruz, CA where a new arrangement of my orchestral piece 200 OK will be performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

Also, for anyone who wasn’t able to catch last month’s CBC stream of Correction Line’s West End show, there is now a nifty page with photos, info and a streaming audio archive on Radio 2’s ‘concerts-on-demand’ site. Check it out.

Correction Line on The Signal

Hey folks, this is last minute, but tonight at 10PM EST the CBC Radio 2 program ‘The Signal’ will broadcast Correction Line’s January, 22 show at the West End in Winnipeg. Check it out.

The Radio 2 site is a bit confusing, but the stream can be found in the ‘Listen Now’ box on the upper right hand corner of the screen. Different shows are played at different times in Canada’s various time zones, but what you’re looking for is ‘The Signal’ and it will be the eastern time zone stream starting at 10PM (I think they rebroadcast it later in the evening for the other time zones…).

I’ll be interested to hear what it sounds like. I’m not sure if they took the feed from the board or from their own mics. You can hear my trio for marimba, violin and cello towards the end of the first set (probably at around 10:40Pm). It was a fun show. I hope you’ll be able to sense that from the broadcast.

Present Continuous

So I’m very excited for this thursday evening. The amazing Laura Grey with the help of Caspar Lam, has put together a fantastic event called Present Continuous. Basically, Laura and Caspar reached out to creative people throughout the Yale community to fashion an evening of collaborations between designers, composers, sculptors, architects, photographers, painters and others. I’ve been around this place for a while and it’s pretty rare to have an event that brings together so many different members of the community. Anyway, I’m very excited. The show will be at the University Art Gallery from 530-730 on Thursday March, 4th and will feature installation, performance, sculpture and other types of work. And, of course, there will be a fabulous reception afterwards (courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery…thank you).

My contribution is a collaboration with designer Brendan Griffiths. It’s a site-specific sound installation called ‘Room Tone’. Basically we’re using google voice to translate crowd noise into text and then diffusing the text via eight earbud sized speakers discreetly placed throughout the space.

Hopefully I’ll get some photo and audio documentation to post later.

fun. come see!

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hi folks…I’m in the midst of updating this site.

it’s already looking way better, don’t you think?

more music and info to be added soon.

in the meantime, have a look around.