Paul Robinson is composer and director of the ensemble 'Harmonie Band'. For the latter he has been commissioned to write 8 scores for silent film including commissions from the National Film Theatre, The 'Giornate del Cinema Muto' festival in Pordenone Italy, The National Museum of Film and Photography, the Manchester Festival of Expressionism and the King's Lynn Festival. Harmonie Band has travelled widely in the UK and Europe presenting these scores and programmes of contemporary music including visits to the Dresden 'Musikfestpiele', Berlin's 'Babylon' theatre, a two week tour of Holland and several performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The ensemble has also recorded for the BBC's 'Music in Our Time' and 'Mixing It'.

Outside of Harmonie Band, he has written a ballet score for Scottish Ballet, two cantatas for the Northern Sinfonia and Chorus, a Chamber Opera and numerous chamber works. He has collaborated with the mime artist David Glass, providing the music for two touring shows. He also collaborated with the sculptor Chris Sacker in a project realised in an underground car park at Dean Clough (Secret History).

He was the winner of the 1995 Hilliard Ensemble's Composition prize. His work for them ( a setting of Byron's 'Incantation') has been performed internationally and recorded on Manfred Eicher's ECM New Series label.

Most recently, he was Composer in Residence for the Hilliard Ensemble's Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools where his work 'The Axiom of Maria' was performed by an international cast of student participants in the chapel of Trinity College Cambridge.

Next year he has been invited by Warwick Arts Centre to write a symphonic score to a full length silent classic as part of the Art Centre's Centenary celebrations and by the Northampton Education Authority to write a work for the combined forces of their schools and music centres.

Email: p.robinson@salford.ac.uk