Robert S. Cohen has written music for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance and theatre and has been the recipient of numerous awards including a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, an American Music Center Grant, a Meet the Composer Award, Composers Guild of New Jersey Award, New York Composer’s Circle Award, Harrisburg Gay men’s Choir Award, Hong Kong Children’s Choir International Competition, Susquehanna Valley Chorale Commission, Deer Creek Chorale Commission, New England String Quartet International Composition Competition, several commissions from the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale and grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

His works have been performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal, the Kimmel Center, Symphony Space, Bargemusic, the Sofia Opera House, Melbourne Concert Hall and the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts. Alzheimer’s Stories for soloists, chorus, and large ensemble, with a libretto by Grammy winning librettist Herschel Garfein, is one of the most performed large-scale choral works in the U.S and was the featured work at the 2019 ACDA National Conference.