Career
He has written over sixty works for orchestra, opera, musical theater, dance, and various chamber ensembles that have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Aldridge holds degrees in both composition and English literature. Aldridge received a bachelor"s degree in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master"s degree in Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a doctorate in Composition from the Yale School of Music in 2000.
In November 2007, an opera titled Elmer Gantry by Robert Aldridge and with a libretto by Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville.
Parables also with a libretto by Herschel Garfein was a work commissioned by the Topeka Symphony. lieutenant premiered in May 2010.
He was professor of Composition at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He was appointed director of the music department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2012.
They have one daughter, Micaela Aldridge (b1994).