Robin Holcomb
(Skippens)

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The varied musical experiences of pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb shine through her many recorded works. The New York Times had this to say about her difficult-to-define musical style: "Robin Holcomb...has created a new American regionalism, spun from many threads - country, rock, minimalism, Civil War songs, Baptist hymns, Appalachian folk tunes, even the polytonal music of Charles Ives. The music that results is as elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful."

Robin Holcomb has released a number of her own albums through Nonesuch and German Sound Aspects label over the years. Additionally she is a founder and co-director of The New York Composers Orchestra, an ensemble for which she is also a conductor, pianist and principal composer. First Program in Standard Time and The New York Composers Orchestra, both on New World Records, document this work. She has composed music for various theatrical and film productions, including Nikki Appino’s Project X: Before the Comet Comes (Seattle/2003) and her own Angels at the Four Corners, premiered at the New Music America Festival at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City. She composed the score for the Joe Goode Performance Group’s Bessie Award-winning Deeply There, and the score for Tiny Sisters In The Enormous Land for The Bebe Miller Dance Company. For the world of television she created the score for the PBS documentary A Woman’s Health, and contributed music to the Huchoosedeh, Voices of the Heart documentary.

In 2006 Robin Holcomb released a selection of recent works titled John Brown’s Body on Tzadik Label. The album includes music written for string quartet and solo piano, art songs, improvisations and pieces of a film score. The title track John Brown's Body is an arrangement and reflection of the old song, combining several lyric sources.