Robert Alan Cutietta is best known as an educator, author, researcher, and arts leader. He is the author or co-author of seven books and over fifty research articles in music psychology and education. He is also a composer, having written for television shows and movies. 

Cutietta has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cleveland State University, a Doctorate from The Pennsylvania State University and a leadership Certificate from the Disney Institute.  He has held tenured professorships at Montana State University, Kent State University, The University of Arizona, and The University of Southern California.  

His many books include “What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic” (Routledge Press, 2024), “Who Knew?! Questions you never thought to ask about Classical Music” (Oxford University Press, 2017) and two editions of “Raising Musical Kids: A Parent’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 2001, 2013). He also is an author of chapters in both Handbooks on Music Learning and Teaching as well as author of multiple articles in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, and a host of other national and international journals.  

From 2006 to 2016 he hosted a weekly radio segment called “Ask the Dean” on the largest classical music radio station in the United States. He has been involved with the GRAMMY awards since 1992 as a host of GRAMMY in the Schools from 1992-1999, GRAMMY Camp from 2002-2022 and as a member of two Blue Ribbon Adjudication Committees from 1998 to the present.