Robert Sirota (born October 13, 1949) is an American classical music composer based in New York City and Searsmont, Maine.
Sirota received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which allowed him to study abroad in Paris, where his principal teacher was Nadia Boulanger.
Since 2021 Sirota has presented a performance series called Muzzy Ridge Concerts at a large studio space he added to his Searsmont home.
Conductors of his music have included JoAnn Falletta, Kenneth Kiesler, Gerard Schwarz, Alan Pierson, Bramwell Tovey, and Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Musicians who have performed his music include pianists Jeffrey Kahane, Vicky Chow, Ben Pasternack, David Friend, Soyeon Kate Lee, and Jeanne Kierman Fischer; flutists Carol Wincenc, Alex Sopp, and Linda Chesis; violinists Laurie Carney, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Rebecca Fischer, and Nicholas Mann; violists Cynthia Phelps, Daniel Avshalomov, Jonah Sirota, and Nadia Sirota; cellists Norman Fischer, Gregory Beaver, and David Geber; and organists Hatsumi Miura, Victoria Sirota, and Heinrich Christensen.