Robert McDuffie
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Robert McDuffie, violin
Robert McDuffie has appeared as soloist with many of the major orchestras of the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and the Far East. His most recent appearances abroad have been at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bochum Symphoniker and the Noord Nederlands Orkest, the KBS Symphony in Seoul, and with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. During the fall of 2002, Mr. McDuffie was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and performed several concerts at the Villa Aurelia. He returns to Rome each June as the co-founder and artistic director of The Rome Chamber Music Festival at Villa Aurelia. Robert McDuffie is a Grammy-nominated artist whose recordings for Telarc include the violin concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Adams, Glass, Barber, and Rozsa, as well as a CD of Viennese favorites. Mr. McDuffie has been profiled on NBC´s Today, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS´s Charlie Rose, A&E´s Breakfast with the Arts, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has also served as a commentator for National Public Radio. Mr. McDuffie studied with Henrik and Robert Schwarzenberger, Margaret Pardee, Jens Ellerman, Robert Mann, and Dorothy DeLay. He has been appointed Distinguished University Professor of Music at Mercer University in his home town of Macon, Georgia. He lives in New York with his wife and two children. Mr. McDuffie plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesu violin, know as the "Ladenburg." Schedule | Tickets | Venues | Artists
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