Robert Alan Cutietta (born 1953) is best known as an educator, author, researcher, composer, and arts leader.
He is the author or co-author of five books and over fifty referereed research articles in the area of music psychology and education.
By 1970 he was both performing in clubs and working as a studio musician recording commercials and demos with a variety of artists.
While pursuing his performing, he completed a bachelor's and master's degree from Cleveland State University in choral music education (1974 & 1978).
In 1979 he left teaching to earn a doctorate in music education and psychology at Pennsylvania State University (1982).
He is a founding member of Montana Public Broadcasting (PBS), and is, or has been, a member of the Advisory Board of Classical KUSC Radio in Los Angeles, The GRAMMY Awards' Blue Ribbon Adjudication Committee,The Orange County School of the Arts, The Maestro Foundation, Fender Music Foundation and the National Board of Directors at Little Kids Rock.
He is listed in Who's Who in America, and was designated the 2001 Alumni of the Year from the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University.
In 2007, he received the Amicus Poloniae Award from the Government of the Republic of Poland for outstanding achievement in promoting the Arts.