Lucie Robert"Premier Prix" - Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal
Artist Diploma - Indiana University
Master of Music - Indiana University
Violin
Profile:Violinist
Lucie Robert has received enthusiastic praise from audiences and critics alike
for the expressive lyricism and tonal beauty of her playing. Allan
Kozinn, writing in The New York Times, lauded her “melting tone” and
“wonderfully supple approach to phrasing.” Ms. Robert carries on the
great violin tradition of her teacher and mentor, the legendary Josef Gingold.
Ms.
Robert has appeared as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S.,
Canada, Europe and the Far East in major music centers including New York,
London, Chicago, Washington D.C., Vienna, Beijing, Seoul, Montreal, Toronto and
Ottawa. She has performed over thirty different works as violin soloist
with all of the major orchestras in Canada, including the Montreal Symphony
under Charles Dutoit. As a recording artist, she has performed for
National Public Radio, the CBC Radio Network, Radio Canada, and Radio France,
and received critical acclaim for her recording of violin sonatas by Faure and
Saint-Saens. An active participant in the summer music festival scene,
Ms. Robert has been guest artist or faculty member at festivals such as
Bowdoin, the American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau, Musicorda, Meadowmount, Orford,
Waterloo and the Busan Music Festival. She is currently on the faculties
of the Texas Music Festival at the Moores School of Music, the MusicAlp Academy
in Courchevel, France, the Duxbury Music Festival and the Beijing International
Music Festival and Academy.
Highly sought after
as a violin pedagogue, Ms. Robert has served as violin professor for the past
twenty-three years at the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of
Music in New York City. She has given master classes throughout the world
at prestigious institutions such as Seoul National University, the Central
Conservatory in Beijing, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Oberlin
Conservatory, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, the Glenn Gould School and the
Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal. Her students have won prizes in
major international competitions including Indianapolis, Young Concert Artists,
Paganini, Sendai and the China International Violin Competition. Ms. Robert has
served as an adjudicator for many competitions including the Montreal and Fritz
Kreisler and Jozsef Szigeti International Violin Competitions. Personal Website:www.lucierobertviolin.com