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Joseph Robinson, Oboe <br /> } <br /> • QQmnlete Bio <br /> • ShQIrt VemiQn <br /> • Career Higbligbta <br /> • �iecordi n gs, <br /> • S lolChamb .r <br /> • NY Philharmonin <br /> i Fundraising, <br /> • cul= <br /> Blo <br /> For 27 years from June 1978 until September 2005, Joseph Robinson served as Principal Oboe of the New <br /> York Philharmonic. Following his famous predecessor Harold Gomberg, he was the last oboist in America to <br /> study directly with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau. Like both of them, Joseph Robinson became one of the <br /> most distinguished orchestra musicians of his era. (See Lareer Highl:Q is for a chronology of his New York <br /> Philharmonic activities). <br /> Since his retirement from the New York Philharmonic in September 2005, <br /> Joseph Robinson has continued to appear extensively as an oboe soloist, <br /> chamber musician, teacher and clinician from Atlanta to Alaska. <br /> Performances have included concerti by J. S. Bach; G. F. Handel, J. C. Bach, <br /> W. A. Mozart, R. Vaughan-Williams, J. Francaix, and R. Strauss, which he <br /> played eight times during the summer of 2007. He also appears often in duo <br /> concerti and recital programs with Mary Kay Robinson, his violinist wife. <br /> Currently Artist in Residence at Lynn University i's Conservatory of Music in <br /> Boca Raton, Florida, Joseph Robinson also participates each summer in the <br /> Bellingham (WA) Festival of Music. <br /> He was Artist in Residence at D lke Tni yersi tv from 2006-2008, where he <br /> produced important double reed events and collaborated with faculty <br /> members and the_',iompl Qu21jet. Together with award-winning filmmaker <br /> Jason Starr, in 2006 he produced in New York City's Riverside church an <br /> historic concert/documentary of Mahler's Second Symphony. <br /> Named a Scholar of thg Aspen Institute in 1994, he served for four years on the "Magic of Music" panel <br /> forKW gjjj Fol,ndation—a group that directed major funding in support of American symphony orchestras. In <br /> 1983 he received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from his undergraduate alma mater, Davidson College, <br /> where with Zubin Mehta's help he created a major scholarship fund for young musicians at the school. In <br /> 1989 he proposed, planned, and arranged funding for the New York Philharmonic's two-week stay at the <br /> Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming—the first residency in the Philharmonic's 147-year <br /> history. As a member of its board of directors in 1992, Joseph Robinson produced "Heroes of Conscience" <br />