Tyler Rubin

Biography

Tyler J. Rubin is a NYC/NJ based composer, copyist, and music educator. Rubin’s music lives at the intersection of opera and musical theatre. His works include Ten Minutes in the Life or Death of… and I Celebrate (libretti by Marella Martin Koch), How To Create A Young Girl (libretto by Laura Barati), and most recently, Nightlife (libretto by Deepali Gupta), praised for its “deft combination of sultry jazz and angular modernism” (National Sawdust) which premiered at the Stonewall Inn as part of a collaboration between NYU and American Opera Projects for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. His compositions have been performed in NYC at St. Luke’s Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama, the PIT Loft, the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning and the Celemente Soto Velez Cultural Center as well as Columbia University, New York University, Muhlenberg College, and Montclair State University. He obtained his M.F.A. at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and his B.M. in Music Theory/Composition with a concentration in clarinet from Montclair State University where he studied under Scott Davenport Richards, Robert Livingston Aldridge, and David Singer.