Robert Pollock received a BA in Music from Swarthmore College, an MFA in Musical Composition from Princeton University, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Composition. He is co-founder of the New York Guild of Composers (1975), where he was often featured as pianist, and founder/director emeritus of the Composers Guild of New Jersey (1980-1998). Since 1999, Pollock directs a contemporary music and arts presenting organization, Ebb & Flow Arts, Inc., Inc., in Hawai’i.
He has organized over 500 new music concerts. As pianist, he has premiered over 100 compositions by composers from around the world. He has recorded works by George Walker, Rashid Kalimullin, Stephen Peles, Dina Koston, Sarn Oliver, Edward T. Cone, and others. He performed solo piano recitals in Honolulu, Maui, and Kauai, Hawai’i; Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan, Kazan, Russia, Xalapa, Mexico, New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. He participated as composer-in-residence at William Paterson University, the Festival for New American Music, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, California State University at Sacramento, and University of Vera Cruz, Xalapa, Mexico.
Some of his over one hundred-forty (140) compositions received performances in Israel, Moscow, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Honolulu, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Russia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland, New Jersey, California and NYC. Several of his works are recorded for Furious Artisan, CRI, CGNJ, E&FA (MIMM), and Union of Composers, Tartarstan, Russia, labels. Several works are published by Mobart, E.C. Schirmer, Veritas Musicae and Rosalime Productions.