Rate My Professor Robert Levin

Robert Levin serves as Adjunct Professor in the John J. Cali School of Music within the College of the Arts at Montclair State University. He directs the MSU West African Drumming and Dance Ensemble, fostering student engagement with traditional West African music through drumming, singing, and dancing. A specialist in traditional West African music, Levin is a film composer and musician who speaks many musical languages. He has performed and taught throughout the United States, Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean, weaving diverse Western and non-Western genres into an expressively cohesive style. Under his leadership, the ensemble performs at campus events including Cali Midweek Concerts, Diaspora: A Celebration of Black Art, and collaborations with the Symphonic Band and Afro-Caribbean Ensemble. Repertoires feature pieces such as Gahu, an Ewe social dance, and traditional recreational music of the Ga people from Accra, Ghana.