Dr. Troy Robertson is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Ithaca College.  During the spring semester he serves as the sabbatic replacement for Dr. Janet Galván, teaching conducting and leading the Women's Chorale and Chorus. In addition to his work at Ithaca College, Dr. Robertson is the director of the Young Men’s Chorus of Ithaca, an affiliate ensemble of the Ithaca Children’s Choir.  Dr. Robertson was recently named a fellow of the 2012 Carnegie Hall Choral Institute’s Transient Glory Symposium, an honor that included study with Francisco Nuñez, conductor of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Grant Gershon, conductor of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and John Corigliano, Grammy, Pulitzer, and Academy Award-winning composer. As part of the symposium Dr. Robertson conducted the Young People’s Chorus in performance in Carnegie's Zankel Hall.

Before coming to Ithaca, Dr. Robertson was choral director at East Gaston High School in Mount Holly, North Carolina. Under his direction the East Gaston High School choruses performed in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and New York, including two performances in Carnegie Hall. While teaching in North Carolina, Dr. Robertson served as associate conductor of the Charlotte Oratorio Singers and Charlotte Chamber Singers. In that capacity he assisted in the preparation of large and small-scale choral works for conductors Christof Perick, Scott Allen Jarrett, and Alan Yamamoto. Dr. Robertson also served alongside Tripp McGill as co-conductor of the Gaston County Choral Ensemble.  Dr. Robertson holds degrees from Florida State University (Ph.D.), the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (M.M.), and Furman University (B.M.Ed.).  An active clinician and adjudicator, he has served at festivals in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, and Virginia.

A tenor, Dr. Robertson has performed as soloist with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Charlotte Chamber Singers, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Tallahassee Ecumenical Chorus, the Prague Choral Festival, and the Festival Singers of Florida.  Robertson frequently composes and arranges for chorus, and studied composition with Mark Kilstofte and André J. Thomas.  Ensembles including the San Jose State University Concert Choir, Waldorf College Choir, Festival Singers of Florida, Tennessee Tech Chorale, University of Miami Men’s Glee Club, and Florida State Singers, Choral Union, and Men’s Glee Club have performed his works.  A native of Lawrenceville, Georgia, he is married to Stephanie Robertson, who is completing her psychology degree (Ph.D.), also at Florida State University.