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Robert Paterson (composer)
Musical artist
Robert Paterson (born April 29, 1970) is an Americancomposer of contemporary classical music, as well as a conductor and percussionist. His catalog includes over 100 compositions. He has been called a "modern day master"[1] and is primarily known for his colorful orchestral works, large body of chamber music and clear vocal writing[2] in his operas, choral works, vocal chamber works and song cycles.
Early years
Paterson was born on the West Side of Buffalo, New York. He is the son of Tony Paterson, an award-winning sculptor who was a Professor of Sculpture at the University at Buffalo, and Eleanor Paterson, a painter and bilingual education director at Erie Community College who received her Ph.D. in bilingual education from the University at Buffalo. Although Paterson was surrounded by sculptors and painters while growing up,[3] his father enjoyed contemporary classical music and took him to new-music concerts at the University at Buffalo, where he heard works by Morton Feldman and John Cage,
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Bios
A "modern-day master" and often the "highlight of the program" (The New York Times), American composer Robert Paterson is loved by audiences and performers worldwide. His colorful music embraces his reverence for the natural world and the environment, from goddesses to online dating, to humor in music to mathematics. He was awarded Composer of The Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie Hall in 2011, and Whitman's America had its Carnegie Hall debut with Oratorio Society of New York in 2022.
His opera Three Way won the Grammy® for Best Classical Producer of the Year, and his music has been named “Best of the Year” on National Public Radio and featured numerous times on NPR's Performance Today. “A bright and magnificent score”(Opera News), Three Way premiered with the Nashville Opera and then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and his operas continue to be performed with companies across the United States.
His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Austin Sy
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Robert Paterson
Professor, Faculty of Law,
University of British Columbia
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cultural property lawBiography: Robert Paterson is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. A member of the bars of British Columbia and New Zealand he has developed a specialization in cultural heritage and art law over the past 15 years. During that time he has been a visiting professor in the subject at the University of Fribourg, the University of San Diego, Oxford University and Southwestern Law School. In 1994 he organized a UNESCO-sponsored conference at his university entitled "Material Culture in Flux; Repatriation of Cultural Property". The conference papers were published as a 1995 Special Issue of the University of BC Law Review. Paterson is an editor of the International Journal of Cultural Property and the Rapporteur of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association. In 2007 he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the UBC Museum of Anthropology. His recent publications include; "The Carin
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