Robert Fokkens is a South African classical music composer.
[1] He had works performed in Japan, Australia and the USA, and his music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
[3] Fokkens previously studied at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town with Peter Klatzow, and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he held the Manson Fellowship in 2001–2.
He has received many awards and scholarships and completed his PhD, supervised by Michael Finnissy at the University of Southampton in 2006.
[6] Fokkens and soprano Sarah Dacey formed Cabaret Fou under the name “Pulse” in 2006 to explore contemporary song with roots in the European cabaret tradition (like Satie, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler).