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                                          Robin Wilson

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                                          Robin Wilson

                                          Regarded as a foremost pedagogue in Australasia, Dr Robin Wilson is Head of Violin at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne, and also teaches in the Open Academy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Previous appointments include Lecturer in Violin and Pedagogy at the University of Sydney, the Australian Institute of Music and String Pedagogy Fellow at the University of Queensland.

                                          His students have won the major Australian national competitions, and are prize winners of international competitions, including the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. They have appeared as soloists with the major Australian orchestras and hold positions and perform with leading orchestras in Australia and overseas, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. Former students currently study at leading institutions around the world such as the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School and the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin. Robin has given masterclasses throughout Australasia, Singapore, the UK and the USA and was recently a keynote speaker at the 2017 IRMTNZ National Conference in New Zealand.

                                          Robin has released solo and chamber recordings on Decca, ABC Classics, Vexations840, Ode and VDE-Gallo. He performs widely a member of Ironwood Ensemble and the Australian Octet. His research on the historical performance of Brahms’s music was awarded the prestigious 2014 Geiringer Prize from the American Brahms Society and he has presented lectures at leading institutions around the world including Stanford and Yale Universities.

                                          Robin studied with Alice Waten, Janet Davies and Beryl Kimber in Australia and James
                                          Buswell at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

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