# Robert Een
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{{Short description|American composer, cellist, and vocalist}}
'''Robert Een''' (born 1952) is an American [composer](/source/composer), [cellist](/source/cellist), and [vocalist](/source/vocalist).
==Career==
Known for his use of [extended vocal and cello techniques](/source/extended_technique), Een has recorded eight albums of his compositions and scored several films. He received [Bessie Awards](/source/Bessie_Awards) for music composition in 1998 and for sustained achievement in 2000. He won an [Obie Award](/source/Obie_Award) in 2004 for his score to [Dan Hurlin](/source/Dan_Hurlin)'s puppet theatre work ''Hiroshima Maiden''. His music for [dance](/source/dance) and [theater](/source/theater) can be heard in the repertories of [Liz Lerman](/source/Liz_Lerman), [David Dorfman](/source/David_Dorfman), Jennifer Muller, [Brian Selznick](/source/Brian_Selznick), and [Yin Mei](/source/Yin_Mei), among others. He teaches voice and composition in [UCLA](/source/UCLA)'s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
===Performance===
{{Blockquote|Robert Een [was] a longtime member of my Vocal Ensemble and [is] an extraordinary singer and musician in his own right. I had had the pleasure of singing with him for many years but never in the context of a duet [until ''Facing North'']. From the time I first met him in 1977, I was moved by the bell-like clarity of his musical understanding and the beauty and honesty of his singing and playing.|Meredith Monk[Jowitt, Deborah; ed. (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7NAuKOtAmtAC&pg=PA167 Meredith Monk]'', p.167. JHU Press. {{ISBN|9780801855405}}.]}}
Een's band, Big Joe, includes the film composer [Carter Burwell](/source/Carter_Burwell), and his long association with [Meredith Monk](/source/Meredith_Monk), including his performance in the 1991 premier of Monk's ''[Atlas](/source/Atlas_(opera))'',[Pendle, Karin; ed. (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MxdhoKIKmnsC&pg=PA62 American Women Composers]'', p.62. Psychology Press. {{ISBN|9789057021459}}.] culminated in the creation of their hour-long music/theater duet, ''[Facing North](/source/Facing_North)'' (1992). He also performed with [Julius Eastman](/source/Julius_Eastman) in Monk's ensemble and studied composition with him. He has performed his music throughout the world, including [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism) caves in [India](/source/India), a theater above the arctic circle in [Norway](/source/Norway), a Shinto shrine in [Japan](/source/Japan), as well as Lincoln Center and the [Knitting Factory](/source/Knitting_Factory) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City). He performed his opera ''The Escape Artist'' at the 2008 [World Festival of Sacred Music](/source/World_Sacred_Music_Festival) in Los Angeles with the International Mystical All-Star Band.
==Discography==
*''Music from Blue Earth'' (1989) w/ Dale Newton
*''Big Joe'' (1995)
*''Your Life Is Not Your Own'' (Buzzbox, 1998)[Lieberman, Julie Lyonn (2004). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PRpF8oVGZxAC&pg=PA109 Alternative Strings: The New Curriculum]'', p.109. Hal Leonard. {{ISBN|9781574670899}}.]
*''The Saga'' (2000)
*''Robert Een: Mystery Dances'' ([Starkland](/source/Starkland), 2003)
*''Fertile Fields'' (Buzzbox, 2003)