Paula Robison
Paula Robison (born June 8, 1941 ) is an American flautist and music teacher.
Robison studied at the Juilliard School and worked in the summers at the Marlboro Music Festival with Marcel Moyse . At the age of twenty she brought Leonard Bernstein to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as principal flutist . She was a founding member of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center , of which she was a member for twenty years, and conducted chamber music concerts at the Spoleto Festival with Scott Nickrenz .
As an interpreter of New Music, she has commissioned composers such as Leon Kirchner , Toru Takemitsu , Robert Beaser , Kenneth Frazelle , Oliver Knussen and Lowell Liebermann, and has given world premieres of works by Pierre Boulez , Alberto Ginastera , Elliott Carter , William Schumans , Keith Jarretts and Carla Bleys , Michael Tilson Thomas ' and others. In 2006 she founded the label Pergola Recordings , on which she released an album with live recordings, including the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Sonata with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata with Yefim Bronfman .
Robison teaches at the Juilliard School and gives master classes worldwide. Since 2005 she has held a professorship in flute at the New England Conservatory . In 2008 she received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Conservatory ; in the same year she presented the Classical Recording Foundation with the Samuel Sanders Award . She has published several flute textbooks including The Paula Robison Flute Warmups Book , Paula Robison Flute Masterclass: Paul Hindemith and Paula Robison Masterclass: Frank Martin .
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- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Paula Robison
- New England Colnservatory - Paula Robison
- Paula Robison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Robison, Paula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American flautist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1941 |