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Robert Maggio
Professor of Music Theory and Composition
Co-Director of the West Chester University New Music Ensemble
Chairperson of the Music Theory and Composition Department
Room 330, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-2646
rmaggio@wcupa.edu
Thoughts
on SOM
The School of Music is a dynamic
and creative environment. As a composer and a professor, I’m inspired by all the amazing colleagues and students I interact with on a daily basis, whether it be in the classroom (teaching composition and theory) or at ensemble concerts and recitals. I have always enjoyed coming to “work” because it has always felt like an advanced form of “play,” which is to say that I feel lucky that my job is to spend my day doing things that I enjoy and care about deeply in a place where the students and my fellow teachers are similarly engaged and enthusiastic about their shared passion—music.
Mission at
SOM
As a composition and theory teacher, my mission is to best prepare my students for a professional career in music. Many of our composition and theory students have gone on to graduate study at some of the best schools in the country. From there, they have been able to secure college-level teaching jobs, receive commissions for new works from all kinds of ensembles, and live happy and productive lives in the professional world.
Curriculum
Vitae
Education
B.A. (Music, Composition Intensive, magna cum laude) Yale University;
M.A., Ph.D. (Composition) University of Pennsylvania
Robert Maggio’s music has been performed by the Boston Pops,
Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center, New York Festival of Song, Meridian Arts Ensemble,
Detroit Chamber Winds, Orchestra 2001, New York Youth Symphony,
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, and the Network for New Music.
He has composed music for the Pennsylvania Ballet, Philadelphia
Theater Company, People's Light and Theater Company, Yale Repertory
Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Philadelphia Drama Guild, American
Dance Festival, Randy James Dance Works, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater,
and choreographer Leah Stein.
Professor Maggio’s chamber music is recorded on the CRI and
Albany Records label: Seven Mad Gods (1996), Riddles (2001), River
Song (2003) and The Wishing Tree (2004). His vocal/choral, chamber,
band, and orchestral music is published by Theodore Presser Co.,
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Maggio has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pew Fellowships in
the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer,
ASCAP, and BMI. He is currently a member of the BMI Musical
Theatre Workshop.
List of Works
* published by Theodore Presser Company
current commissions/works in progress
Pottstown Symphony
Orchestra
American Brass Quintet
Long Beach Symphony Orchestra
2006
The Voice of the Rain for SATB chorus, two pianos
and percussion. (6')
The Century Garden for orchestra. (15')
The Rubberers, a musical, 3 men (TTB), 3 women
(SAA) & piano. (14')
Open Road for TTBB chorus, string quartet, piano
and percussion. (12')
2005
Vibrate for string quintet (8')
2004
I Hear America Singing for SATB choir (5')
The Court of the Lone White Pine for SATB choir, piano and cello (5')
Dream Lofty Dreams for SATB choir (5')
Dos Visiones for orchestra (20')
2003
Light to Thousands: The Ballad of Galvez for tenor and
chamber orchestra (6’)
Boardwalk for orchestra (5’)
Quilt Panels: for my love, for my grief,
for my letting go SATB choir and symphonic band (40’)
Three Poems of H. L. Hix for baritone and
piano (7’)
Find Joy for 2-part treble choir and SATB choir (4’)
2002
Songs from the Wood for marimba (12’)
Le Travail a ballet for orchestra (25’)
My Home in the Horizon for orchestra (9’)
Rachel and her Children — Small Hands,
Relinquish All for mezzo soprano soloist, children’s chorus, SATB choir, and wind orchestra (36’)
2001
Ecology for baritone, bass clarinet, piano, violin, and contrabass (4')
Strange Creatures for unison children’s
chorus (6')
Songbook for Annamaria for string quartet (20')
Brandywine Overture for concert band (5')
2000
Forgiving Our Fathers for baritone and piano (20')
Dreams from Childhood for piano four-hands (10')
Invisible Soundtrack (Hero) for concert band (5')
Skylines for orchestra (8')
South Mountain Echoes for concert band (15')
1999
Voyager for wind ensemble (8')
The Wishing Tree for SATB choir (10')
Riddle for clarinet, violin, and piano (12')
Divide for horn and piano (8')
From Earth to the Moon for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion
Part One: Beautiful Dreamers (Variations) (5')
Part Two: Earth/Sky (Chaconne) (8')
Part Three: Travel Memory (Episodes) (20')
Part Four: Blue Orbits (8')
1998
Psychedelic Circus for wind ensemble (8')
Aristotle for SATB choir (6')
Phoenix for two flutes (8')
1997
Jacklight for SATB choir (12')
Big Top for orchestra (12')
America Songbook
Part One: Piano Rags for solo piano (20')
Part Two: Workaday Blues for saxophone quartet (20')
Part Three: The Unknown Road for violin, viola, piano, bass drum (20')
Traveling Songs for flute and guitar (8')
1996
River Song for 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 hn., 2 bsn. (13')
Revolver for brass quintet and drums (17')
Internal Rhythms for percussion octet (15')
The Laurel Tree for two flutes and piano (20')
The Death of the Moth (after Virginia Woolf) for solo violin (10')
1995
Men at Dusk four songs for baritone, viola and piano (14')
Variations: My Native Land (after Charles Ives) for solo guitar (17')
Vol d'Oiseau for cello, piano, and two percussionists (20')
Waltzes for the Dayroom for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (20')
1994
Barcarole (seven mad gods who rule the sea) for vn., vc., pno. and perc. (20')
Elysian Fields for solo flute (7' )
Tributary Streams for alto saxophone, piano, bass and percussion (21')
1993
Two Quartets (desire, movement, love, stillness) for 2 fl. and 2 vc. (20')
Eclipse for mixed chorus and trombone (5')
Four Men at the Door Today three songs for sopr., alto, ten., bass and piano (7')
Light and Truth for brass choir and percussion (12')
Winter Toccata (I can't believe you want to die) for solo cello (20')
1992
Distortion of Reality: MIDI Violin Music I for electric MIDI violin (8')
Voices for 2 narr., 2 solo sopr., chorus, vln., vc., cb., hp. and perc. (45')
Fluano Pianute for flute and piano (15')
The Hand-Prints of Sorcerers for orchestra (11')
1991
Love and Travel for soprano and flute (11')
Imaginary Dances for orchestra (35')
Tragicomedy for chamber orchestra (22')
1990
Duo Concertante for violin and piano (15')
1989
Dorian Prelude for orchestra (10')
Fantasy: Spontaneous Lines for clarinet and piano (13')
1988
Prelude, Hymn and Toccata for solo piano (13')
1987
Trio (Anthem) for violin, cello and piano (26')
Theater
Take Me Out, by Richard Greenburg; James Christy, director; Philadelphia Theatre Company, May 2005-incidental music
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare; James Christy, director; Villanova Theatre, February 2005-songs and incidental music
Arthur’s Stone/Merlin’s
Fire, by Kathryn Petersen; Abigail Adams, director; Peoples
Light and Theater Company, November 2003—songs and incidental
music
The Trojan Women; James Christy, director;
Villanova Theater, November 2002—songs and incidental
music
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare;
James Christy, director; Peoples Light and Theater
Company, April 2002—songs and incidental music
Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies;
Mary Robinson, director; Philadelphia Theater Company,
October 2001—incidental music
The Laramie Project, by Moises Kauffman;
James Christy, director; Philadelphia Theater Company,
June 2001—incidental music
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare;
Christopher Grabowski, director; Yale Repertory Theater,
February 1998—songs and incidental music
Pericles, by William Shakespeare; Christopher
Grabowski, director; Shakespeare Santa Cruz, July
1996—songs and incidental music
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare; Mary
Robinson, director; New York University Graduate
Acting Program, February 1996—songs and incidental
music
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck; Mary
Robinson, director; Philadelphia Drama Guild, January
1995—incidental music
Joan at the Stake, a music drama by Robert Maggio and Maggie Robbins; Christopher Grabowski, director; reading of revised partial script at New York Theater Workshop, December 1994.
premiere: West Chester University Theatre, December 1993; Bob E. Bytnar, director; Donald Nally, conductor.
Holiday Memories, by Truman Capote/stage
version by Russell Vandenbroucke; Mary Robinson,
director; Philadelphia Drama Guild, November 1994—incidental
music
Twelve Dreams, a play by James Lapine; Roxanne
Rix, director; Villanova Theater, October 1994—incidental
music
The Hidden Ones, by Judy GeBauer; James
J. Christy, director; Philadelphia Festival Theater
for New Plays, 1994—incidental music
Voices, a performance art piece by Robert Maggio; Bob E. Bytnar, director; Donald Nally, conductor; West Chester University School of Music, 1992.
The Latent Rise of New Purity, a musical
by Robert Maggio and Allan Heinberg; Christopher
Grabowski, director; reading of partial script at
New York Theater Workshop, October 1991.
Shakuntala, by Kalidasa; James J. Christy,
director; Villanova Theater, 1990—songs and
incidental music
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