Reviews
By 2015 CutTime Productions had won a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Detroit grant to professionalize with CutTime Simfonica® and many guest artists innovating club classical in many casual venues, street festivals, and surprising public places. They also performed at the National Gallery of Arts, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Lake George Music Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Classical Revolution Cleveland, Dayton Philharmonic, and the list goes on.
“In both of these [Pork ‘n Beans and Gitcha Groove On!] I was most impressed with his remarkably fluent and original contrapuntal writing. There was a fully realized, quite complex fugue with a spicy Latin beat by the bass that was the equal of any contemporary fugal writing.” – Jeffrey Rossman of CVNC
Robinson has been an innovative force in bringing chamber ensembles into nontraditional venues and classrooms, mixing it up with a variety of creative repertoire and generally proving that classical music belongs not on the fringes of contemporary culture but at the heart of everyday life.
– Detroit Free Press Music Critic Mark Stryker
Note that CutTime Simfonica is often available on short notice. And CutTime Players Publishing offers about 70% of Simfonica music and new orchestrations for others to perform.
- Watch CutTime Simfonica’s new 2022 program Music For Interesting Times at ProMusica Detroit.
- See an updated list of Rick Robinson’s compositions.
- Refresh classical in your community with CutTime, now in Pittsburgh, PA.
- Read a list of CutTime’s many Special and Holiday programs.
- Purchase their tracks at iTunes.
- Email for a concert or residency proposal.