Robert Washburn (born 1928) is a composer and educator. Washburn is Dean (education) and Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow in Music at the Crane School of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam. After completing his undergraduate studies at Potsdam he was awarded a Danforth Foundation Fellowship to complete a Ph.D. in Musical composition at the Eastman School of Music where he studied under Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness. Wikipedia
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