About Greg
Gregory Robin (D.M.A., University of Alabama) is a composer, guitarist, and music educator
based in Lafayette, Louisiana. He leads a varied musical career as a composer, music theorist,
and guitarist.
As a composer, his music has been selected for performance at the Batture Contemporary
Festival, ElectroAcoustic Juke Joint Festival, Central Missouri Festival of New Music, New
Music on the Bayou Festival, Versipel Concert Series: Home Grown New Music Festival,
Vexations Project by the Generous Ensemble, and the Futureplace Festival in Porto, Portugal.
Gregory’s music has also been performed at universities and concert venues across the United
States. His composition for flute, violin, and piano is available on the Beauport Record label.
Gregory’s music explores timbre, rhythmic partitioning of motivic elements, and the
juxtaposition of dynamic contrast and musical interruption. Through a tightly controlled yet
intuitive process, motivic elements of pitch, rhythm, and timbre meld together to form a cohesive
and organic whole. These processes yield a lyrical and dramatic style that draws listeners into a
sound world richly varied in its harmony and color. The musical language of his compositions is
influenced by his composition studies with C.P. First, Tristan Murail, and Mario Davidovsky
As a guitarist, he has had masterclasses with Lily Afshar, Mary Akerman, Manuel Barrueco,
Franco Platino, Susan McDonald, Robert Trent, Aliesksey Vianna, and Andrew Zohn. Gregory
has performed classical and electric guitar in various venues and recital halls in Alabama, South
Carolina, and Louisiana. He created the Allstate Guitar Ensemble for the Louisiana Music
Educators Association and currently serves on their Board of Directors as the Chair of the Guitar
Committee.
As an academic, his paper “Mahler, Fin de Siècle Vienna, and Spiritual Conversion: Mahler’s
Conversion from Judaism to Catholicism and its Cause and Effects” was selected to be read at
the 6th Biennial New Orleans Music Theory and Musicology Colloquium, Loyola University
New Orleans. Dr. Robin’s article on Yan Maresz’s Metalliques is published in the International
Trumpet Guild Journal, October 2017 issue.
As an educator, he has taught at Central Carolina Community College, South Louisiana
Community College, the University of Alabama, Jacksonville State University, and Western
Carolina University. Currently, he is a guitar instructor for the Lafayette Parish School System.
Gregory holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of
Louisiana-Lafayette, a M.M. in Performance from the University of South Carolina, and a
D.M.A. in Music Composition, with a minor in Musicology, from the University of Alabama.
