Robert Chumbley

Robert Chumbley‘s compositions have been commissioned throughout Europe and the United States and been performed by such organizations as Atlanta Ballet, the North Carolina Symphony, Omaha Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Piedmont Wind Symphony, Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, Voices of Change (Dallas), Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, the Da Vinci Trio, WGBH Radio (Boston, on a commission from Very Special Arts Massachusetts) and major international music festivals including An Appalachian Summer, Nestle/Musical Encounters Festival (Lisbon, Portugal), MANCA New Music Festival (Nice, France), North American New Music Festival and ArtsIgnite!. He has written incidental theatrical music and three large ballet scores. His works are recorded on MMC Records and published by Carl Fischer Music.

In 1989, Mr. Chumbley won the Composer Fellow Prize, presented by the North Carolina Arts Council and followed that award with the Composer Fellow Prize from the Nebraska Arts Council in 1993. In 1989 he was honored with a major grant from Opera America for the initial commission and development of his opera, Ordinary People, with the Piedmont Opera Theater and the Des Moines Metro Opera. In 1992, Opera America awarded him another grant for a second workshop production. The opera received a full semi-staged reading from the Maryland Opera Studio in 2008.  Mr. Chumbley has also been the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant (1980), the Irwin Freundlich Prize at the William Kapell International Piano Competition (1979) and First Prize in the International Musical Showcase Competition (1978).

Read complete bio.

​