Aditya Hridayam
This was premiered on my Feb. 22,
2011 concert at Duke.
Joseph Robinson, oboe; Mary Kay
Robinson, violin; Thomas Warburton, piano
I. One Chord Is Enough [6:55] MP3 recording Wav file (CD quality)
Moderoboinsono: Raucus: Codadajoe
II. Aditya hridayam punyam sarv shatru veena
shanam
Glacial [7:07] MP3 recording Wav file
III. Twisted Jig
Tierkoerperbeseitigungsgesetz
[6:07] MP3 recording Wav file
Joseph
Robinson is one of the last oboists in
America to study
with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau, Joseph Robinson has been
one of the
outstanding orchestral musicians of his generation,
serving as Principal
Oboe of the New York Philharmonic for 27 years from June
1978 until September
2005. Known especially for his lyricism and phrasing, he
has performed
concerti, orchestral, and chamber works in concert
halls around the world
to international critical acclaim.
Mr. Robinson
has had
a distinguished teaching career,
serving for more than 20 years
as head of Oboe Studies at the Manhattan School of Music,
where he helped
establish the first Master of Orchestral Studies degree in
America and from
which he received the Presidential Medal for Meritorious
Faculty Service in
2005. He has taught at the University of North
Carolina School of
the Arts, the University of Maryland, Duke University
and at Lynn
University's Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton,
Florida. His many
students occupy important positions all over the world.
Today, Mr. Robinson
resides in Blaine,
Washington with his wife, violinist Mary Kay Robinson. They
are parents of
three remarkable daughters — executive Katie, doctor Jody and
diva Becky.
Mary
Kay Robinson, violinist, is a 1968 graduate of the Juilliard School,
where she studied
with Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian. She studied chamber
music with Felix
Galimir, Donald Weilerstein, Josef Gingold and members of the
Guarneri String
Quartet. She furthered her education with studies with Glenn Dicterow,
Gregory Fulkerson and Gerald
Beal. Her
first job after graduation
was as violin instructor at the University of Tennessee, in
her hometown of
Knoxville, where she filled in for her former teacher, William
Starr, who was
on sabbatical in Japan. She was a member of the University of
Tennessee String
Quartet and later held a similar position in the University of
Maryland String
Quartet.