Robert Pound maintains an active career as composer and conductor in the capacity of Associate Professor of Music at Dickinson College.  His work Irrational Exuberance was premiered in November 2005 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the following month, the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra premiered his Fêtes and Fireworks in celebration of that ensemble’s 35th year.  Other recent premieres include a luminous jewel lone by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and String Quartet in Five Movements by the Corigliano Quartet.  In the summer of 2003, he was a Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center and participated in master classes with Robert Spano, Christoph von Dohnányi and Kurt Masur.  He also conducted Peter Lieberson’s Razing the Gaze in Seiji Ozawa Hall as part of the TMC Festival of Contemporary Music.

Pound holds Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School where he was a composition student of Stephen Albert and Milton Babbitt.  His works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad including such prestigious venues as Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, France.  Among his commissions are works for the Trio of New York City, the New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater (NYC).

In March 2002, Pound was Composer in Residence at Columbus State University, and from 1994 to 1998 he held the positions of Music Theory Coordinator, Composition Instructor and Resident Conductor at Rocky Ridge Music Center.  He was Music Director of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2003 and has also been guest conductor with the Contemporary Music Forum in Washington, D.C.