Robert israel composer biography papers

Robert Israel

Robert Israel has been hailed as “. . . one of the world’s finest practitioners of the art of silent film accompaniment.” A protege of the legendary theatre organist Gaylord Carter, he made his professional debut at the age of 17.

Robert has performed before such silver screen greats as Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

and Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers as well as entertaining contemporary audiences in such venues as UCLA’s Royce Hall and the Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Last Remaining Seats” series. In October 2002, Robert was, for the ninth year, named music director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

This was a tribute to legendary silent screen great Charlie Chaplin for the Academy’s new restoration of The Circus (1928), in which M