Search - Gerald Robbins (piano) :: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54; Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G major, Op.88

Pianist GERALD ROBBINS has distinguished himself internationally as a soloist, having performed throughout the world in virtually every major music center, including New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bonn, Munich, Athens, Frankfurt, Belgrade, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem and Tokyo. He has appeared with major orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, London Mozart Players, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the New York Virtuosi. He has collaborated with such esteemed conductors as Zubin Mehta, Sir Neville Marriner, Okko Kamu, Jorge Mester, Lawrence Foster and Louis Frémaux. A champion of neglected romantic repertoire, Mr. Robbins has received critical praise for his solo recordings for the London-Decca, Orion and Genesis labels. His world premiere recordings of concerti by Litolff and Reinecke, performed in collaboration with the Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra under van Remoortel were released on CD by Genesis to great critical acclaim. Other releases include a highly praised solo performance of Dvorak's Poetic Tone Pictures and Goetz s Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings. Mr. Robbins recorded the Leonard Bernstein and John Corigliano Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Glenn Dicterow and the Mendelssohn complete works for cello and piano with cellist James Kreger. In addition to his solo activities, Robbins has distinguished himself as a chamber musician in collaboration with many noted musicians such as Nathan Milstein, Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Zara Nelsova and Ruggiero Ricci. A co-founder with Glenn Dicterow of the Lyric Piano Quartet, Mr. Robbins has recorded and toured with this ensemble. He has also appeared as a frequent guest artist with members of the New York Philharmonic as part of its subscription concert series at Avery Fisher Hall, as well as performing with them at Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York. Mr. Robbins is also an accomplished conductor. With Kenneth Klein he co-founded the Westside Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles (now the Beverly Hills Symphony) and co-foundered the London Concertante, an ensemble that specializes in 18th- and early 19th-century concerto repertoire. KENNETH KLEIN, one of America's major international conductors, acclaimed by The New Grove Dictionary of Music as a champion of music of the Americas.... equally well-versed in Classical and Romantic repertory has conducted and recorded with such orchestras as the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he has conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de France, Vienna Symphony and Moscow Philharmonic. He has appeared with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House and with the New York City Ballet. Klein has performed in such distinguished European concert halls as the Musikverein, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Moscow s Tchaikovsky Hall. For twelve years, Mr. Klein was Music Director and Conductor of the Guadalajara Symphony, giving more than 100 concerts a year, and championing the music of Latin American composers on five continents. As a result of an invitation to conduct by Pablo Casals, he guest conducted at the Casals Festival and at numerous concerts of the Puerto Rico Symphony. In the early 1960s, Kenneth Klein co-founded with Gerald Robbins the Westside Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles, an orchestra that premiered and supported both American music and traditional repertoire, existing now as the Beverly Hills Symphony. While at the University of Southern California where he obtained his Bachelor of Music, Mr. Klein received the String Department award as a member of USC's Trojan String Quartet.