Clayne Robison is a professor of voice at Southern Virginia University. He previously served as the director of the Brigham Young University opera program. He is a specialist in the study of vocal beauty. Robison is a native of Boise, Idaho. He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and then received a law degree from Harvard Law School. However, he later took an MMus and then a DMA, both from the University of Washington. Robison composed a piece of music that was used for the dedication services of the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden in Jerusalem.