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Robert Griffin Byron is a multimedia sound and
visual artist, currently studying for his Ph.D. in Brown University’s
MEME program. In 2006, he earned his M.M. in Computer Music Composition
from Indiana University while on a Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000,
he was Composer-in-Residence at the Peggy Glanville-Hick’s
House, and he earned his B.Mus. in Composition from Edith Cowan
University in 1997.
Robert Griffin Byron won the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation’s (ABC) Young Composer’s Award in 1995.
Since then, Byron’s chamber music and orchestral works have
been heard across Australia and abroad, including premieres at
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the State Orchestra of Melbourne.
His commissioned work includes the 1997 ballet Orlando, the score
for the 1998 art film Structures, the 1999 ballet Mirror Mirror,
and the 2002 chamber work Kaleidoscope.
In addition to these commissions, Byron’s Piano Sonata No.
2 (Cobalt) premiered in 1999 by Michael Kieran Harvey at the University
of Western Australia, and his multimedia dance work, Enlightenment,
premiered at the Black Box Theatre in 2004 in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2004, Byron’s The Moon Methinks Looks with a Watery Eye
earned second place in the Australian National Harp Composition
Competition.
Byron’s electronic works have been performed at the Australasian
Computer Music Conference in Melbourne (2002), Perth SPECTRUM
conference (2003), Western Australia Converging Technologies Conference
(2003), SEAMUS Conference (2003), THRESHOLD (2004), Midwest IDEAS
Festival (2004, 2005, and 2006), and Dinosaur Annex in Providence
(2007).
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