Robert Livingstone Aldridge (September 7, 1954 in Richmond, VA)[1] is an American composer, professor, and current Head of Composition professor, and former Director of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
He has written over eighty works for orchestra, opera, musical theater, dance, and various chamber ensembles that have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
In November 2007, an opera titled Elmer Gantry by Robert Aldridge and with a libretto by Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville.
He was appointed director of the music department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012.
[6] Robert Aldridge currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife Paula Stark, a landscape artist.