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Robin Beauchamp

Sound design professor

Education

  • Ed.S., education, Georgia Southern University
  • M.Ed., music education, Pennsylvania State University
  • B.M., music education, Lawrence University

Credentials

  • Professor, 2001-present
    Chair of film and television, 2015
    Chair of sound design, 2003-2008 and 2012-2017, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Curriculum Design and Course Development for B.F.A.,  M.F.A, M.A., and Minor
    Program and Course Assessment: Developed Rubrics for B.F.A., M.A., and M.F.A. programs
     
  • Sound designer/music editor, 2006, Mercury Rising
     
  • Sound designer/music editor, 2006, Cranks
  • Sound design/music editor, 2005, Painting Day
  • Music editor, 2005, Motel 4
  • Sound design, 2003, Sam
  • Music editor, 2003, Rick and Rocky
  • Sound design, 2002, A Trip to Granny’s
     
  • Instrumental music instructor, 1985-2000, Savannah Country Day School, Savannah, GA
    Taught instrumental music including beginning band, three jazz ensembles, jazz combo/composition class. Related school activities included brass choir, studio orchestra, and pep band.
     
  • Jazz teaching assistant, 1987-1989, Penn State University, State College, PA
    Directed the second jazz ensemble, taught Music Foundations, performed in the faculty brass quintet and faculty jazz quintet.
     
  • Jazz teaching assistant, 1983-1984, Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, WI
    Directed and wrote for various jazz ensembles.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Cannes Short, sound designer and music editor, Rick and Rocky, 2003
  • WAVY best at show, sound design for A Trip to Granny’s, 2002
  • Georgia Star Teacher, 1995

Organizations

  • B.M.I.
  • A.F.M.
  • A.E.S.

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Designing Sound for Animation, Second Edition. Focal Press, 2013.

Performance

  • Freelance trumpet: performing with Ray Charles, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Blood Sweat and Tears, Don McLean, Louie Bellson, Lionel Hampton, Diane Schuur, Doc Severinsen, Cab Calloway, Disney on Ice, The Savannah Symphony, The Hilton Head Symphony, The Savannah Jazz Orchestra, and The Ceremonial Brass of Savannah.
  • Studio trumpet for “Steve Lippia Salute to Frank Sinatra.” Bravo Records, recorded May 15, 2002.

Composer/arranger

  • Pops arranger for the Savannah Philharmonic:
    • "The Night Before Christmas," "This is Christmas," "The Christmas Song," "Suite of Carols," Holiday Pops, 2015
    • "Comin Home Baby," Picnic in the Park, 2015
    • "Silent Night," "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Holiday Pops, 2014
    • "The Final Countdown," “Comin Home Baby,” “Quando Quando Quando,” Picnic in the Park, 2014
  • ”Do You Hear What I Hear?” arrangement commissioned and performed by the Savannah Symphony, 2001.
  • Boston University Chapel Choir. Te Lucis Ante Terminum. Dir. Julian J. Wachner. 1998. CD.
  • Arizona State Faculty Woodwind Quintet. “A Sand County Almanac.” Performance for International Double Reed Convention, 1997.
  • Indiana State University Jazz Ensemble, “Samba Song.” Dir. David Baker, 1997.
  • Ceremonial music, yachting event, Olympic Games, 1996.
  • Composed and directed full-length concert of original music performed by the Savannah Symphony featuring Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist Bob Berg, 1992.
  • Staff arranger and instrumental director, The U.S. Chorus, televised from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1988.