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There are no translations available  Robert Nairn teaches studio double bass and directs the University's Baroque Ensemble.
A native of Australia, he received his Bachelor of music with
distinction from the Canberra School of Music and a post-graduate
diploma from the Berlin Musikhochschule by courtesy of a two-year DAAD
German Government Scholarship.
His teachers have included Klaus Stoll, Tom Martin, and Max McBride. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has acted as guest Principle Bassist with the Halle Orchestra, the London Mozart players, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and held the position of Principle bass with the Australian Chamber orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. In the Early Music world he has been principal bassist with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society since 2003, and has performed with Concerto Caledonia, the Aulos Ensemble, the Washington Bach Consort, the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and for eight years regularly in London as a member of 'Florilegium'. International festivals include Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aldeburgh, Glyndebourne, Schleswig-Holstein and the London ‘Proms’ under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Mazur, Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Maris Jansons, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Charles Mackeras, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Kent Negano and Franz Brüggen. He has performed at such international venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, La Scala, Le Châtelet, Leningrad Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonie, Teatro Colôn, Konzerthaus and Musikverein (Vienna) and the Sydney Opera House. He has premiered of over thirty newly commissioned works for solo double bass and chamber groups, working both alone and with such groups as the London Sinfonietta, Gruppe Neue Musik Berlin, Australysis, the Music Theatre of Wales, and the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. Current commissions include a concerto by Michael Berkeley and works by Elean-Kats Chernin, Peter Askim, John Carbon, Peter Hamlin, Ben Wolfe, Teppo Hauto-aho and Roger Dean. As a soloist he has performed several concerti with the Australian Chamber and Adelaide symphony orchestras (including Bottesini's Passiona Amoroso with Gary Karr) and has given many recitals in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. His first solo CD is due for release shortly. Rob is president-elect of the International Society of Bassists and will be hosting in June 2009 the ISB Convention at Penn State. http://www.music.psu.edu/prospective/faculty/strings.html |
