Robert M. Abramson
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Robert M. Abramson has had a long and varied career as a coach,
pianist, conductor, composer, author, teacher, writer, and most
recently, video creator. He has taught at every age level in every
type of school in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. He is a teacher of
teachers and performers at the Juilliard School in the Dance, Drama,
Opera, and Instrumental Music departments. Mr. Abramson also teaches
Theory, Solfège, Rhythmics, and Piano Improvisation and Sight
Reading at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He is
internationally acclaimed as a leading developer of the methods
of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze.
Mr. Abramson is the founder and director of the Manhattan Dalcroze
Institute, which is now located at the famous Juilliard School at
Lincoln Center. His major contributions are in the fields of music,
movement, and musicality, and he is known for his gifts of musical
improvisation. After many successful years at the Dalcroze School
of Music, he left and began directing his own school, the Robert
Abramson Dalcroze Institute in New York City. It is there that he
and his colleague, Daniel Cataneo, teach all of the original Dalcroze
Solfège, Rhythmique, and the original Dalcroze exercises
from his first collection of Rhythmique, Gymnastique, and Plastique
Animé.
Mr. Abramson is the author of "Music for Perception and Cognition,"
published by C.P.P. Belwin, "Teaching Music in the 21st Century"
with Choksy, Gillespie, and Woods, published by Prentice-Hall, "Rhythm
Games I and II" with text and original music composed and performed
by the author, published by Warner Brothers, and "Teaching
Music as a Second Language," a theory, ear-training, and sight-singing
method, published by Music and Movement Press. His latest work,
"Dalcroze HanDances," is a beginners method for piano.
His newest work is a video tape, "Eurthymics," done with
Bob Abramson and published by GIA Publications, Inc. Mr. Abramson
is currently working on a new video, "Dances and Movement of
the Baroque Instrumental Suites and Operas," which is a guide
to better rhythmic performance.
As a composer, he has written six documentary film scores, a concerto
titled, "Dance Variations for Piano and Orchestra," recorded
by Angel Records, and a ballet titled, "Touch and Go."
He has written three song cycles on texts by Whitman and James Joyce,
and one set of orchestral songs on text by James Joyce. "The
Three Old Songs Resung" was written because of his interest
in extending and renewing the world of American and English folk
music as narratives for our own times. Incidentally, Mr. Abramson
has recorded with the famous folk singers Oscar Brand and Jean Ritchie
on many recordings for Electra and Traditional Records.