Ronald Caltabiano’s music has been hailed as having achieved “a remarkable synthesis of modernism and romanticism, of violence and lyricism, of integrity and accessibility.” He first came to international attention in the early 1980s with his String Quartet No. 1, premiered in Great Britain by the Arditti Quartet and in the United States by the Juilliard Quartet. A series of virtuoso solo pieces (double bass, cello, English Horn, trombone, and violin) solidified his position among the leading American composers of his generation, and a series of prominent orchestral commissions soon followed.

Rob was born in the small prairie town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan in Canada. He received his early musical training in his home town and later at the Regina Conservatory of Music 70 miles away. After 4 life and musically forming summers at the Banff Center, School of Fine Arts, Rob received a prestigious Canada Council Arts Grant at the age of 17 to continue his studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Pianist William Corbett-Jones has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America, Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Singapore as recitalist, soloist with Orchestra, and in collaboration with internationally renowned colleagues. His concertizing in Europe has included recitals in most of the major capitals, including the Lausanne and Winterthur Orchestras in Switzerland, and under the direction of Kurt Masur with the Florentine Orchestra del Maggio Musicale.