Born in Wrexham North Wales, Robert is Artistic Dir­ector and co-founder of NEW Sin­fonia, Prin­cipal Con­ductor to the Or­chestra of Square Chapel and Mu­sical Dir­ector of Can­torion Rhos Choir. For the summer, he has been ap­pointed As­sistant Con­ductor to the ex­citing and in­nov­ative con­tem­porary group ‘Size Zero Opera’, who will be per­forming at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Fest­ival, as well as As­sistant Con­ductor to Co Opera Com­pany in London. In September, Robert has been in­vited to par­ti­cipate at the ‘In­ter­na­tional Mas­ter­classes Berlin’, where he will work with Mi­chail Jurowski and the Berlin Sin­foni­etta. Last year, he was se­lected to study with Maestro Ben­jamin Zander of the Bo­ston Phil­har­monic at the 2012 London Master Classes, and in 2011 he was awarded the Orion Young Conductor’s Award, sup­ported by the Richard Carne Trust.

Robert is a pas­sionate leader and works with mu­si­cians of all ages in a wide range of music. His com­mit­ment and vision for the NEW Sin­fonia based in North Wales was ac­know­ledged with the or­chestra being in­vited to col­lab­orate with Nich­olas Cleo­bury and Karl Jen­kins at the 2012 North Wales In­ter­na­tional Music Fest­ival held at St Aspah Cathedral. Fur­ther­more, in Au­gust 2010 he was se­lected as As­sistant Con­ductor to the Britten Pears Or­chestra working closely with Kirill Kar­abits as part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme.

Robert is in high de­mand as Guest Con­ductor and Teacher. In March 2012, he worked with in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­claimed pi­anist Llyr Wil­liams with the Cam­brian Phil­har­monic. He  has coached Pro Corda String Or­chestra and con­ducted them at the Cadogan Hall, London in 2010.

As a vi­ola player, Robert has worked for the Or­chestra of Opera North, Northern Ballet and Sin­fonia Cymru. He holds the MMus and FRSM qual­i­fic­a­tions, having studied at the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester and the Royal Northern Col­lege of Music.

 

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