Composers: John Adams, Kalevi Aho, J.S. Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berlioz, Cage, Copland, George Crumb, Miles Davis, Debussy, Jacob Druckman, Dufay, John Eaton, Frederick Fox, John Harbison, Lou Harrison, Hartmann, Ives, Aaron Kernis, György Ligeti, Magnus Lindberg, Steven Mackey, Mahler, Arvo Pärt, Messiaen, Pettersson, Steve Reich, Christopher Rouse, Schuman, Shostakovich, Joseph Schwantner, Satie, Bent Sørensen, Strauss, Stravinsky, Roberto Sierra, Steven Stucky, Takemitsu, Xenakis
Film Composers: Angelo Badalamenti, Don Davis, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, Carl Stalling, Toru Takemitsu, John Williams
Misc. Musicians: Leonard Bernstein (primarily as a conductor), Glen Gould (as a pianist and conceptualist), Harry Partch (as an inventor)
Bands and Pop Musicians: Beatles, Beck, Björk, The Doors, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Enya, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Grateful Dead, King Crimson, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Police, Public Enemy, Rush, Stereo Lab, Sting, U2, Roger Waters
Percussionists: John Beck, Bill Bruford, Gary Burton, Stewart Copeland, Lynn Harbold, Neil Peart, Leigh Howard Stevens, Gordon Stout, Jan Williams
Visual Artists: Francis Bacon, Bosch, Breugel (elder), Calder, Dali, Max Ernst, Escher, Monet, Miro, Tony Paterson, Picasso, Rodin, Harold Tovish, Turner
Architects: Frank Geary, Philip Johnson, Frank Lloyd Wright
Writers: J.G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, Emerson, Frost, Stephen King, Sinclair Lewis, Poe, Ayn Rand, Shakespeare, Thoreau, David Foster Wallace (to be continued... definitely not complete)
Other Influences: Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Al Gore, Steve Jobs, John Robbins, Dean Kamen, Ray Kurzweil, Nikola Tesla, my wife Victoria and son Dylan
Directors & Actors: Cohen Brothers, Robert DiNiro, Jim Henson, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Kaufman, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, David Lynch, Robert Redford, Tim Robbins, Steven Speilberg (sometimes), Quintin Tarantino, Wachowski Brothers, Christopher Walken
Other Interests: vegan cuisine, animal rights, the environment, hiking, tennis, technology, gadgets
Sounds Like
A colorful, pulse-driven mix of Neo-Romanticism, Neo-Impressionism, Post Minimalism, Rock and Jazz, inspired by nature, visual art and mechanical processes.
Hailed by the press as 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 crashing waves and Dali's melting clocks to the life of New York Mets Baseball catcher Mike Piazza and animated cartoons.
Recent performances include the Louisville Orchestra world premiere of Electric Lines, conducted by Barry Jekowsky. This work was previously selected for the Minnesota Orchestra Readings and American Composers Orchestra Whitaker New Music Readings, and which won the Louisville Orchestra Composition Contest. Other recent performances include Embracing the Wind by the Aureole Trio, New York Harp Trio and Trio St. Germain, Wind Quintet by the Philharmonia Quintet (Cracow), The Essence of Gravity, commissioned for the San Francisco-based Volti choir, The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind by the Society for New Music and the world premiere of Crimson Earth with the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble conducted by Jeffrey Renshaw. Quintet of the Americas recently premiered his Wind Quintet through an American Composers Forum Jerome Composers Commissioning Program grant. Recent performances also include those by The New York New Music Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, California EAR Unit, Ensemble Aleph (Paris), the Kairos String Quartet, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, as well as numerous festivals world-wide. Recent performances in 2007-08 also include the European premiere and seventeen performances of Dancing Games from Symphony in Three Movements by the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Jonathan Schiffman, conducting.
Paterson has received numerous prizes, awards and honors, including fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Aspen Music Festival and the Atlantic Center for the Arts and grants from Meet The Composer, the American Music Center and the American Composers Forum. He is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Young Composers Award, as well as winning a 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, MediaLogic (Poland) and Riax.
Born in 1970, Paterson was raised in Buffalo, 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. According to a recent dissertation, Paterson has written for and commission more works utilizing six-mallet technique than anyone in the world. Paterson has received degrees from Eastman (BM), Indiana University (MM), and Cornell University (DMA), and his composition teachers include Samuel Adler, 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.
Dear Robert Paterson, thanks for stopping by and your kind interest... Very good and well diffenciated music I appreciate it much! Thanks for the download of: "Braids" and "Sonata..." best greetings from Hamburg Udo
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Hope the piece is coming along nicely. Things are hectic in this camp, as usual. Just played a concert last night that went well thankfully. See you Thursday?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my dear friend. There is also present for you and other friends for Christmas. It’s in my new blog check it out! :-)
Hi Robert! Yep, I'll be having Tofurkey, dressing, yams, green beans, etc. What about you? I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Hope to make it out there early next year. Carol
Rob! I am very excited to turn my harp piece into a two-guitar sprinkle-fest! But I can't fathom the discomfort of hearing it for the first time with everyone else...I would hear the piece first, right?
