The PIANO SONATA by American composer Aaron Robinson is a programmatic work on a grand scale. Composed in four movements representing four areas of Maine: Machigonne (Portland), Down East, Malaga Island and Katahdin, each paints a detailed portrait of a specific time and place in the State’s history. Its compositional structure draws heavily on the […]

Collaborating with award-winning children’s author and illustrator Ashley Bryan (1923-2022), composer Aaron Robinson has created his most monumental work to date: “A TENDER BRIDGE” for Orchestra, Chorus, Children’s Choir, Soloists, Jazz Ensemble, and Narrator. The multi-movement work for the concert stage draws upon the Requiem Mass as its basis, while simultaneously celebrating the life, career […]

Beginning in 2016, musicologist Aaron Robinson began a 3-year long journey to compile, transcribe and edit the complete ragtime works for piano of American composer, pianist and long-time friend: Glenn Jenks (1947-2016). Not realizing the magnitude of archival material, the folio grew from a few rags into a 300-page compilation with a Foreword by legendary […]