Robert C. Maggio is an American composer. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. With a firm belief that new music thrives when it takes root in an audience of passionate listeners, Maggio has been an artist in residence for school districts, arts councils, dance companies, community choirs and bands, and professional ensembles. Maggio has composed songs and incidental music for numerous professional theaters, and his music has been performed on concert stages, in orchestra pits, in school auditoriums, and at arts festivals around the world. He is a professor and chairman of the Department of Music Theory, History and Composition at West Chester University’s School of Music.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Robert Maggio
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Media, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
More:
www.robertmaggio.com
Studios
MacDowell
Robert Maggio worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…