Robin Cox is a composer and violinist who has collaborated with choreographers including Keith Johnson, Stephanie Nugent, Loretta Livingston, Doug Nielsen, Anita Cheng, Eun Jun Gonzalez, Catey Ott, Jerry Pearson, and Jeff Slayton, video artists Kwame Braun and Carolyn Bremer, and playwrights Maggie Mixsell and Judy Bauerlein.

He has also collaborated, performed, and produced concerts with musicians including Pamela Z, Phil Kline, Art Jarvinen, Brad Dutz, Michael Lowenstern, Eclipse String Quartet, Dan Becker, Belinda
Reynolds, Jim Connolly, Amy X Neuberg, Ryan Brown, Scott Deal, Eve Beglarian, Sarah Cahill, Luke Dubois, and Todd Reynolds.

As director of The Robin Cox Ensemble, he has performed his music over one hundred times throughout the United States, produced two
critically acclaimed CD recordings, and premiered works by many contemporary composers. The Los Angeles Weekly nominated the ensemble in 2003 as Outstanding Classical Music Ensemble (www.robincoxensemble.com). He is also an active concert producer, leading a highly successful mixed-media presenting series in Santa Barbara as Executive Director of Iridian Arts, Inc.
(www.iridianarts.com).

Cox was awarded the 2002 and 2003 Lester Horton Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music for Modern Dance. He also received a 2004 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for promotion of contemporary
American music for his founding of Iridian Radio
(www.iridianradio.com). This station is now one of the most widely heard contemporary concert music internet broadcasts worldwide.

Dr. Cox holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, and the University of Miami, studying with composers Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Donald Grantham, Dennis
Kam, Peter Terry, and Dan Welcher.

His many commissions and grants include awards from the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, ASCAP, Cal St. -Long Beach, New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Santa Barbara Dance Theatre,
Livingston Dance, The Carolina Brass Trio, Fairbanks Symphony Association, percussion soloist Scott Deal, bassist Tom Peters, and The San Diego/Tijuana New Music Festival.

Cox has previously served on the faculty of University of California - Santa Barbara, California State University ñLong Beach, Valdosta
State University, California State University -Los Angeles, Chapman University, and the North Carolina Governor's School. He co-produced the Miami contemporary music series Music at Twilight and served as an administrator for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

For more information visit:
www.robincoxensemble.com