Robert Pollock received a B. A. in music from Swarthmore College, a M.F.A. in musical composition from Princeton University, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in musical composition. He is co-founder of the New York Guild of Composers (1975), where he was often featured as pianist, and founder/director emeritus of the Composers Guild of New Jersey (1980-1998). Since 1999, Pollock directs a contemporary music and arts presenting organization, Ebb & Flow Arts, Inc., in Hawai'i.
He has organized more than 500 new music concerts. As pianist he has premiered more than 100 compositions by composers from around the world. He has recorded works by George Walker, Rashid Kalimullin, Stephen Peles, Dina Koston, Sarn Oliver, Edward T. Cone, and others. He performed solo piano recitals in Honolulu, Maui, and Kauai, Hawai'i; Seoul, Korea; Tokyo, Japan; Kazan, Russia; Xalapa, Mexico; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; and California. He participated as composer-in-residence at William Paterson University, the Festival for New American Music, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Art Colony, California State University at Sacramento, and the University of Vera Cruz in Xalapa, Mexico.
Some of his more than 140 compositions have received performances in Israel, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland, and many locations in the U.S. Several of his works are recorded for Furious Artisan, CRI, CGNJ, E&FA (MIMM), and Union of Composers labels, and are published by Mobart, E.C. Schirmer, Veritas Musicae, and Rosalime Productions.
