Robin Glosemeyer Petrone
Partner
As a Partner at Threshold Acoustics, Robin shares her research and project-specific knowledge of sound behavior with clients, design teams and contractors, showing everyone how their work impacts the spaces they build together. Her excitement delivering acoustics and AV explanations of the what and the why of the design process naturally energizes everyone into shared ownership of the project. Robin is driven by her belief in designs where acoustics and AV become a natural extension of unified design rather than an additive element.
Robin continues to share her knowledge through teaching, presentations and publications. Robin is currently on Faculty at Northwestern University School of Communication as part of the Master of Sound Arts and Industries program. She is active in the Acoustical Society of America, presenting in and chairing sessions on room acoustics for performance spaces, co-organizing the 2003, 2014, and 2019 Concert Hall Research Group Summer Institute, and co-authoring Classroom Acoustics: A Reference for Creating Learning Environments with Desirable Listening Conditions. She is currently serving her second term as a voting member on the ASA Books Committee representing the Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics and is on the Advisory Committee for the Newman Student Award Fund. Robin has been an invited speaker on the topics of music and architecture for the LA Philharmonic’s Music for Elementary Educators series, at SCI-Arc as part of the “Stereolabs” Seminar which focused on the exploration of architecture and sound, and bringing mid-century masterpieces back to life at the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference.
This drive has always been with her. By the time she was 13 she had toured Copenhagen, Moscow and Minsk with the St. Louis Gateway Ballet Company and filled her spare time with musicals, flute, speech team, and the choir. She discovered the convergence of art and science that is acoustics while studying abroad, specifically during a Requiem in a cathedral in Dortmund. After graduating with an Architectural Engineering degree with an acoustic emphasis she joined Jaffe Holden Acoustics and became Director of West Coast Operations, managing projects and the office for seven years.
Recent Projects
New Trier High School Arts Wing Addition