2014-327 Arts - Lindsay Ann Leach-Sparks for Spring 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $500

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forUnion Theological Seminary—both as a benefit concert, which helped raise $2 million for an endowment at the Seminary in memory of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and as an Emmy-award-winning tel evision concert/documentary. He created and directed chamber music residencies for his Philharmonic c: I ie,.igues at The Homestead, a five-star resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, and at Hotel Hershey in Hers:~ley, Perin s%I vania. In the spring of 2003 he produced "Prelude to Piano," an event that involved pianist Emmanuel . a; :cud fifteen other professionals in joint performances with students at Northern Valley High School iri f)emarest, New Jersey, and that raised nearly $100,000 for purchase of the school's new Steinway 13. (See 1- utdraising for more information about fundraising projects.) Named a charter member of the Board of Overseers of The Curtis Institute of M rsic in Philadelpfii a <rs well as of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute of the Arts, Joseph Robinson helped organize the Children's \lerty-Go- Round, Inc., a not-for-profit organization aspiring to build a carousel for peace in Israel. In 1976 1 e created in honor of his teacher the John Mack Oboe Camp at Little Switzerland, North Carolina--one of 'I most successful specialty seminars of its kind in the world, and for three years he headed a nal:ional ad s pry committee for Oberlin College Conservato l�:. As president of the Grand Teton Orchestral Semirr r lie helped develop unique orchestral training that inspired imitation in the first Master of Orchestral Perfornu;nce degree in American higher education—atManha tan School of M rsic, where Mr. Robinson was departrneiii chair for the program and head of Oboe Studies. In Riverside Church in New York City on May 15, 200_5 1"_ received the Presidential Medal—Manhattan's highest award—for twenty-seven years of meritorious factilty service to the School. Joseph Robinson's career as an oboist began effectively with his appointment by Music :Director i"".ol)ert Shaw to the principal chair of the Atlantg Symphony in 1967. From 1974 until 1978 he was Inst rtictor of Oboe at the North Carolina School of the Arts, during which time he served as a member of the 11 in on Woodwind Quintet and the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra. He also served as volunteer principal : hot: and member of the board of directors of the Winston-Salem Symphony. He won the New York Philh�irni(inic Principal Oboe audition in December, 1977, following a tour the previous summer in which he v-is Acting Assistant Principal with the Cleveland Orchestra. Despite an invitation from Music Director Sei.ji j, )iawa following a week of concerts as guest oboist with his orchestra, Joseph Robinson declined to joi.ri t}ie Boston Syhorry in the spring of 1989. A native of Lenoir, North Carolina, Joseph Robinson majored in English and economics at Davi-ls;�u College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Fulbright Award for study of federal goveri iinental support to the arts in Germany. It was during this post-graduate year in Europe that he met Marct kibuteau and became that great teacher's first student in the ten years following Mr. Tabuteau's retirement l rain the Philadelphia Orchestra. A frequent public speaker, he has keynoted the Wyoming Governor's Corm Q hence on the Arts in Cheyenne and the Association of North Carolina Symphony Orchestras in Raleigh, r i,l liis lectured widely on orchestra governance as well as the interpretative art of music. He is author M -„ veral published articles, including one in the Wilson Ouar�terly concerning the need to reintroduce insrriiiiicntal training in the nation's public schools; another in Instrumentalist dealing with fundamentals of o ,:,.e relaying; and still another in Harmony that recommends a competitive format as a way of increasing publi c; i merest in orchestra concerts. As a demonstration of this competitive potential for orchestras, Mr. Robins(--i _ffid his counterpart Richard Woodhams, produced a concert performed jointly by players from the Phi add; )liia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic in Camden, New Jersey in November 1996—an unprc(Qdented event hailed by The New York Times as "a classic battle of the bands.” His invitation to Johanna Johnson, a 16-year-old oboe-playing cancer patient from California, tl-i,-t permitted her to fulfill a Make-A-Wish Foundation dream by performing in the New York Philharmoni0, sp i 1-11-�:d international interest in December 2000. In April 2005 he joined Johanna Johnson for her senior rt cital at Gustavus-Adolphus College in Minnesota.