Gino Robair Bio
Gino Robair is a composer/percussionist who has written music for film, dance,
theater, radio, and television (including commercials for MTV and Starbucks). He was the music director for the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, and composer in residence with the California Shakespeare Festival for five years. As an editor at Electronic Musician magazine for 10 years, Gino wrote about music technology, and he has authored two books on the subject. The most recent is The Ultimate Personal Recording Studio (Thompson; 2006).
Gino is also one of the “25 innovative percussionists” included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001). He has recorded albums with Tom
Waits, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and Eugene Chadbourne, among many others. He has performed with numerous artists and ensembles spanning rock, jazz, and classical music, including John Zorn, Nina Hagen, and the Kronos Quartet. Gino is a founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain. In addition, he runs Rastascan Records, a label devoted to creative music.
His opera “I, Norton” has been performed in San Francisco and Oakland, California; Seattle, Washington; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Miami, Florida; St Louis, Missouri; Tokyo, Japan; and Milan and Palermo, Italy. In addition, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet has performed a reduced version of the piece across Europe and North America.
