Bob Clendenen

Bob Clendenen was born in 1961 in Atlanta, GA. He received his BM Cum Laude from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and an MFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts.

Bob has worked with a wide variety of artists from grammy award winning jazz bassist Charlie Haden to singer/songwriter Stew. Bob has also opened for artists as diverse as Frank Black of the Pixies to the de-funked east coast jam band The Ominous Seapods. His major composition instructors included Brian Fernneyhough, John Harbison, Jonathan D. Kramer, Paul Lansky, Stephen L. Mosko, Allen Sapp, and Morton Subotnick. 

As a composer, he has won numerous grants and awards, among them a Young Composers Award from A.S.C.A.P. He was a featured composer in the Visiting Composers Series 1989/90 at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and has given lectures on his music at both the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and California Institute of the Arts. Bob was a co-founding member of the L.A. based band FOOD (1996-2001) playing trpt., synth., gtr., vocals, and occasional percussion. Bob has also led his own projects under various titles. 

His commissions include the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, California E.A.R. Unit, Percussion Group Cincinnati, CalArts New Millennium Players, and various solo artists. Bob has had numerous performances of his compositions in the USA, and FM radio broadcasts throughout the United States. As a producer, he has managed more than 5,000 concerts in California and one at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Bob is on the faculty and staff at California Institute of the Arts.