Robert Voisey

Robert Voisey (born 1969 ) is an American composer and music producer.

Voisey studied computer science at Stony Brook University in Long Iceland. In a composition course, he met the composer Oded Zehavi Israeli know which one it a student at the College of Tel Hai in Upper Palestine. He lived for two years in Israel, where he worked on a kibbutz and composed. After his return to the U.S. he completed his studies at Stony Brook University and worked until the late 1990s in the computer industry.

In 2000 he founded Vox Novus, a society for the promotion of contemporary composers and musicians. The group initially consisted of five fellow composers, but grew in a short time to over one hundred members. One of the most important projects of Vox Novus under Voiseys line is 60x60, a number of since 2003 the annual one-hour CDs, to each of which 60 musicians contributed a 60 second long piece. For the project, about 3500 pieces were submitted from 2500 composers from forty countries. As a result, the productions Dance 60x60, 60x60 Video and Orchestra 60x60 emerged. Other projects include collages States and Constellations.

Furthermore Voisey organized with Vox Novus, the Composer's Voice Concert Series, in which chamber music works of established and new contemporary composers are listed and the concert series Fifteen Minutes of Fame, contribute a one-minute piece for a particular musician or a particular ensemble for each fifteen composers. In addition to the aforementioned projects Voisey pieces composed, inter alia, the short opera poppetje, which was premiered by the Opera Remarkable Brigade at Carnegie Hall.

In addition Voisey acts, among others as organizational director of the Festival Electronic Music Midwest and Vice President of the Living Composers Foundation.