A native of Springfield, Missouri and an Angeleno transplant for four years, Dr. Troy Robertson is in his second year at Bethany College (Kansas) as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities. With a Music Education degree from Missouri State University, a Vocal Performance degree from UCLA, and a doctorate in Choral Conducting from UCLA, Dr. Robertson is a highly sought-after and versatile performer, conductor, and educator.

His featured performances at UCLA include Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress, Sy in Kay Rhie’s Quake, and the lead role of Mr. Lucian in the premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour’s The Grand Hotel Tartarus. Additionally, he has enjoyed professional choral opportunities with groups like the Grammy-award-winning Seraphic Fire, Zimriyah Chorale, Queen City Chorale, Spire, Springfield Mid-America Singers, and the Missouri Choral Artists. Dr. Robertson was a featured soloist at the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute in conjunction with the Aspen Music Festival, one of the most prestigious music festivals in the country.

A lover of oratorio and concert performance, he was been a soloist on symphonic works across the world, including with the Ireland Chamber Orchestra, the Palisades Symphony, the Missouri State Symphonic Orchestra, and Tesserae Baroque Orchestra. Some of his favorite concert solos have been on Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Handel’s Messiah, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. He has been featured as a soloist on four professional choral albums, including “On My Way” and “Gone Home” where he worked directly with Grammy-nominated producer Dirk Sobotka.

As a conductor, Dr. Robertson led the Grammy-award-winning UCLA Chamber Singers in performing the West Coast premiere of William Averitt's Easter, 1906. He’s also conducted the UCLA Symphony in a concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite, as well as the Grammy-award-nominated Tesserae Baroque Orchestra in a staged performance of Handel’s Acis and Galatea. He frequently worked in cooperation with the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience on several concert collaborations, including performing Dave Brubeck’s Gates of Justice with Dave Brubeck’s three sons and premiering “The Everlasting Flame” by Yoni Fogelman. Passionate about sensitive Baroque performance, he’s one of the country’s foremost experts on performing Bach’s St. John Passion with a Jewish audience in mind, as published in his dissertation entitled “Representation of the Jewish People in Bach’s St. John Passion and other Johannine Passion Oratorios: An Alternative Translation”.

As Artistic Director of the Messiah Festival of the Arts, Dr. Robertson conducts America's longest-running annual performance of Handel's Messiah, one of the most historic choral traditions in the country. As part of the festival, he also conducts an annual performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In addition to his professional work, he is a loving husband and father to a beautiful, crazed toddler named Levi.