Upcoming
*= world premiere
2025.08.07 prowl by Lindsey Goodman at National Flute Association Convention, Regency Hall VII, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA, USA
2025.08.10 Fauna by Tower Duo at National Flute Association Convention, Courtland, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA, USA
2025.09.03 in excess at Espacios Sonoros at Usina Cultural, Salta, Argentina
2025.09.12-14* soft infrastructures for falling worlds (installation version) with Mare Hirsch at SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA, USA
2025.09.19 syn at EM|One at Sursa Performance Hall, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
2025.09.29 Fauna by Tower Duo at Burke Recital Hall, Denison University, Granville, OH, USA
2025.10.04 untangle my tongue with Mare Hirsch at CLICK FEST, Glidden Recital Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
2025.10.08 untangle my tongue with Mare Hirsch at Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival at Haggin Auditorium, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, USA
2025.10.11 light unraveled by Kyle Edwards and Giyong Ahn at Central Washington University New Music Festival, Recital Hall, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, USA
2025.10.16 sounding field at Bowling Green State University New Music Festival, Bryan Recital Hall, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH, USA
2025.10.18 lingering garden at Queens Tape Music Festival, Our House Queens, Astoria, NY, USA
2025.11.09 prowl (video world premiere) by Lindsey Goodman at Riley Auditorium, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, USA
2025.11.19 struggling in excess at inner sOUndscapes | Saxophone at University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
2025.12.04* all that we leave behind at EM|Two at Hahn Hall, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
Robert McClure's music attempts to discover beauty in unconventional places using non-traditional means.
Photos by Jacob Swanson
Visual art, poetry, the natural world, neurological and mathematical concepts are all elements that influence McClure’s works. His work has been featured at festivals including NYCEMF, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, SCI National Conference, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis, SEAMUS, IDRS, ISCM, and ICMC.
In 2023, Robert was named the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA) Distinguished Composer of the Year for his work “Celestial Miniatures” for piano. Additionally, he was part of a nine-composer commission with ADJ·ective New Music by the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts for a new work to pair alongside “The Planets” by Holst. Robert composed “Earth: the spark” as part of this new collaborative work “…of the spheres” premiered by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in March 2024.
His works may be found through ADJ·ective New Music LLC, Bachovich Music Publications, Imagine Music Publications, Innovative Percussion, Media Press, Inc., Resolute Music Publications, and Tapspace Publications as well as on the ABLAZE and Albany Record labels. Recently, he was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2020 and 2022.
Robert is the recipient of Individual Excellence Awards in 2020, 2022, and 2024 from the Ohio Arts Council. His recent commissions include works for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra; Ohio Music Teachers Association; the Johnstone Fund for New Music for Tower Duo, the Unheard-of//Ensemble, and UCelli; the Fredonia Saxophone Ensemble; the CAMPGround Ensemble; and the Aruna Quartet among others.
His works may be found through ADJ·ective New Music LLC, Bachovich Music Publications, Imagine Music Publications, Innovative Percussion, Media Press, Inc., Resolute Music Publications, and Tapspace Publications as well as on the Albany, ALBAZE, Cero, Navona, Neuma, and SEAMUS Record labels.
Robert McClure (b. 1984) received his doctorate from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where his primary mentors were Shih-Hui Chen, Arthur Gottschalk, and Kurt Stallmann.Robert has previously held positions at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Soochow University in Suzhou, China. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Composition/Theory and Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio University
