Robert Carl

Robert Carl (born 1954 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American composer and writer based in Hartford, Connecticut. He chaired the composition department of the Hartt School at the University of Hartford until 2022. His music ranges from chamber and orchestral works to electroacoustic pieces and music in precise tunings, and he often plays the Japanese shakuhachi in his own work. Carl studied with George Rochberg, Ralph Shapey, Iannis Xenakis and Jonathan Kramer, and received a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.