Robert Mirabal | Return of the Hounds: Alumni Masterclass+Festival (2024)

Masterclass Presentation:“Cultural Identity Through Language and The Arts” & Community Concert "Robert Mirabal & Rare Tribal Mob"

Robert Mirabal has been described as a Native American Renaissance man".  It is a fitting description for this musician, composer, painter, master craftsman, poet, actor, screenwriter, author, horseman, and farmer. But in Mirabal’s case, the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.

An accomplished, renowned Native American flute player and maker from Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, Robert’s flutes have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of the American Indian.  An award-winning musician, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Mirabal has twice been named the Native American Music Award’s Artist of the Year, and has received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. He is also a two-time Grammy Award winner. His breakthrough PBS musical production, Music From a Painted Cave, remains a benchmark of Native American traditional/rock fusion and storytelling. He has collaborated with other artists across genres and disciplines including ETHEL String Quartet, Japanese avant-garde modern dancers Eiko and Koma, Mohican singer-songwriter Bill Miller, multimedia environmental artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford and others.