Robert Chumbley

Robert Chumbley (b. 1954) an internationally known composer, earned his master's of music degree from the Julliard School of Music in 1977. He was a 1977 prize winner of the University of Maryland International Piano Competition; a 1978 prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition; winner of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant in 1980; and winner of the Composer Fellow Prize from the North Carolina Arts Council, 1987-88. He was a student of the Pulitzer-prize winning composer Michael Colgrass.