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Sharon Robinson

• Professor, Jacobs School of Music

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Sharon Robinson gave her first concert when she was seven and has since received numerous honors and awards. Among them are the Avery Fisher Recital Award, the Pro Musicis Sponsorship Award, the Leventritt Foundation Award, and the Gregor Piatigorksy Memorial Award. Her career as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and member of the renowned Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has taken her to most major concert halls in the United States and Europe.

Her guest appearances with orchestra in the United States have included the National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies. In Europe, she has performed with the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, and the English, Scottish and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestras.

Professor Robinson's television appearances have included The Tonight Show, The Today Show, The Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, and a profile on CBS Sunday Morning. Her festival engagements have included Spoleto, Mostly Mozart, Aspen, London's South Bank, Madeira, Granada, Edinburgh, and Prague's Autumn Festival, where she performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto at the famous Dvorak Hall.

A co-founder of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Sharon Robinson has collaborated with Rudolf Serkin and Alexander Schneider at the Marlboro Music Festival, Leon Fleisher, Rudolf Firkusny, Yo-Yo Ma, Eugene Istomin, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, and the Emerson, Guarneri, Miami, Juilliard, Orion and Tokyo Quartets. In December 2001, Musical America named the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio the 2002 Ensemble of the Year.

Ms. Robinson has recorded numerous chamber and concerto works on labels that include Chandos and Sony labels. Her close relationships with today's composers have led to many commissions for solo and chamber works as well as concerti from Leon Kirchner, Arvo Part, Stanley Silverman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, David Ott, Katherine Hoover, and Richard Danielpour.