Robert Carl is a composer and the 2016 recipient of the Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also a recipient of the C.D. Jackson Award in Composition (Tanglewood, 1979), National Endowment for the Arts (1981), American Composers Alliance Recording Award (1987), CT Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (1996), American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellowship (1998), and the Copland Heritage Foundation 1998 Copland Award, among others. Carl has received major commissions from Chamber Music America (Miami String Quartet with bassist Robert Black), Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra (Gustav Meier, conductor), Chicago Pro Musica (Chamber Music Ensemble of the Chicago Symphony), and from the Musical Spring in St. Petersburg, Russia. Carl received his musical training at Yale, Penn, and the University of Chicago and studied with Jonathan Kramer, George Rochberg, Ralph Shapey, and Iannis Xenakis. He now teaches in the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, where he is chair of the Composition Department. Carl’s work is performed widely throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Robert Carl
Studios
Veltin
Robert Carl worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…