Carol Robinson

about

To say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American composer and clarinetist is perhaps too restrictive to describe the eclecticism of her experience and passion. In fact, she seems interested in everything having to do with sound. She is not someone who likes the middle ground, preferring the edges, the extremes. Her music is situated in those places of tenderness and rage, gentleness and power that come from experience and mastery. Trained as a classical clarinetist, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory before continuing her study of contemporary music in Paris thanks to a H.H. Wooley grant. Whether playing repertoire or more adventurous material, she performs in major venues and festivals the world over (Festival d’Automne, MaerzMuzik, Archipel, RomaEuropa, Wien Modern, Huddersfield…), and works closely with musicians from a wide stylistic spectrum. A fervent improviser, she prefers the most open musical situations and regularly collaborates with photographers, visual artists and videographers. In parallel, it was through writing music theater pieces that she began composing seriously. She started with small ensembles, and rapidly received commissions for larger works. Most recently, she composed Mr Barbe bleue (commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture) a pocket opera for baroque ensemble produced by the Opéra de Reims, and co-signed Occam Hexa II with Eliane Radigue, for the Decibel ensemble in Perth, Australia. Long fascinated by the extended possibilities of

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Cool '60s Girls - Felines Of Northern Soul

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Occam Ocean I

Billows

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Masters of The Roll, Vol. 2: Piano Music of Debussy

The Weather Pieces

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Expériences De Vol # 8

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Experiences de vol 8

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Why Waste Time

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Morton Feldman Edition 7: Late Works with Clarinet

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Radigue: Occam Ocean, Vol. 1

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Giacinto Scelsi: Music for High Winds

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Girls Girls Girls: Volume 10

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