Rob Power is an active chamber musician, soloist, improvisor, orchestral player, composer, teacher, and instrument builder. He has performed with the new music ensembles Continuum, Timeworks, and Attacca, the Celtic group Picket Line, the improv quintet JERK, and over twenty Canadian orchestras. Along with performances in England, Japan, Greece, Sweden, and the United States, he has appeared at festivals across Canada from Whitehorse to St. John’s. Rob has collaborated with many great musicians, including Rivka Golani, Trichy Sankaran, Mika Yoshida, Sal Fererras and John Wyre, and is a regular participant in Newfoundland’s Sound Symposium.



As a soloist, Rob Power has performed percussion concertos by Alan Bell, Alison Cameron, and Gregory Hawco. As a chamber musician he has appeared in world premieres by R. Murray Schafer, James Harley, Osvaldo Budon, Clark Ross, Bill Brennan, John Wyre, and Anthony Craig Hall.



An active composer, Rob Power’s compositions reflect a multitude of influences, and include both contemporary classical works and outdoor environmental pieces. His writing often reveals a fascination with rhythmic perception, along with a textural approach to harmony. Rob was awarded the OZ-FM award for excellence in sound at the 2002 Provincial Drama Festival in St. John's, for composing the soundtrack for the Beothuck Street Players' production of Drink the Mercury.



Rob Power holds a Bachelor's degree in performance from the MUN School of Music, where he studied with Don Wherry, and a Masters degree from McGill University, where his teachers were Pierre Beluse and D'arcy Phillip Gray. He has also studied with Charles Fullbrook at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England.



Currently, Rob Power is the Assistant Professor of percussion at the MUN School of Music, where he maintains a large and vibrant studio of talented percussionists, and directs the renowned Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble. He performs regularly in a wide variety of musical collaborations, including the St. John’s percussion trio Neighbours and the improvisational groups Spanner and McKudo. Rob Power is also a member of Newfoundland’s premiere African drum and dance ensemble Dzolali, and is the principal percussionist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra. An avid builder of new and unusual percussion instruments, Rob’s recent constructions include the po-pipes, glass triangle, PVC talking drum, and the quarter-tone mirrorphone.