William Robin

Musicologist and assistant professor at @UofMaryland. Occasional writer for @nytimesmusic and @newyorker.

As an active public musicologist, William is a regular contributor to The New York Times , where he most recently published an article on classical music and Black Lives Matter. He has also written for The New Yorker, NewMusicBox, and Bandcamp. In 2014, he received an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for the NewMusicBox article “Shape Notes, Billings, and American Modernisms.” He curated Q2 Music's Symphomania in spring 2015, a twenty-four hour marathon radio broadcast of orchestral music composed in the twenty-first century. William regularly writes liner notes for the independent record label Irritable Hedgehog, including acclaimed releases of piano music by Paul Epstein, William Duckworth, and Jürg Frey. In 2014–15, William served as the North Carolina Symphony's inaugural scholar-in-residence, contributing program notes and preconcert lectures for the orchestra's performances, and helped curate the symphony's upcoming presentation at Washington Performing Arts and Kennedy Center's SHIFT Festival in spring 2017. He co-founded the Experimental Music Study Group, which presents discussions and performances in the Chapel Hill area. William maintains an active Twitter presence as @seatedovation.