Paula Robison, flute
Flutist Paula Robison, a founding member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, was for ten years co-director of chamber music at both the Italian and American Spoleto Festivals. Presently co-director of the Gardner Chamber Orchestra in Boston, she has commissioned works Leon Kirchner, Toru Takemitsu, Oliver Knussen, Robert Beaser, and Kenneth Frazzelle. She has appeared with I Solisti Veneti at Avery Fisher Hall, and with the London, San Francisco, Detroit, National, Vermont, New World, and North Carolina symphonies. She has toured the United States and Germany with guitarist Eliot Fisk, has appeared as guest soloist on two American tours with the Budapest Strings, and gives an annual series of four concerts in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum.
Ms. Robison was born in Tennessee, grew up in California, and studied flute with Julius Baker at The Juilliard School. Invited at age 20 by Leonard Bernstein to be guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, she is the first American to win the principal prize at the Geneva International Competition. A member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory, Ms. Robison performs on a Brannen-Cooper flute.
Visit Paula's website at www.PaulaRobison.com, with a link to her new record label, Pergola Recordings.
Paula Robison
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photo credit: Steve J. Sherman