1. Paula Robison was born on June 8,1941 and is a flute soloist and teacher.
23 Facts About Paula Robison
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Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V and Naomi Robison, an actor.
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David Robison was a playwright and writer for film and television.
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Paula Robison's paternal grandmother was a piano teacher, her maternal uncle the playwright Jerome Lawrence, and there were other musicians and dancers in the family.
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Paula Robison learned to play the flute in the orchestra of North Hollywood Junior High School, continuing her studies with Arthur Hoberman.
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Paula Robison attended the University of Southern California for two years, studying flute with Roger Stevens, Principal Flutist of the LA Philharmonic, theater with Jeff Corey, and dance with Bella Lewitzky.
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Paula Robison eventually played for Julius Baker, which led to an audition for the Juilliard School.
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Paula Robison was admitted and graduated with a BS in 1963.
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Paula Robison joined the roster of Young Concert Artists in their inaugural year, 1961.
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Paula Robison played in the first concerts in the recently opened Alice Tully Hall.
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Paula Robison gave concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art every season for over 30 years, at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium as well as in the Medieval Sculpture Court and in the Temple of Dendur with Chamber Orchestra.
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Paula Robison's touring continued, with frequent concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
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Paula Robison has collaborated with pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Yefim Bronfman, harpsichordists Kenneth Cooper and John Gibbons, as well as the guitarist Frederic Hand.
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Paula Robison toured Japan in 1978, performing Takemitsu's I Hear the Water Dreaming there not long after its premiere in the US.
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Paula Robison has kept some of these works, above all "Wind Song", in her repertory ever since.
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Paula Robison joined the New England Conservatory faculty in 1973, and taught at the Juilliard School during the early 1980s.
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Paula Robison now occupies the Donna Hieken Flute Chair at the New England Conservatory.
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Paula Robison encouraged Robison to play one of these pieces as an encore at one of her 92nd Street Y concerts, a dance for flute and pandeiro, a large tambourine traditional in Brazil.
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Paula Robison began to work on it with Baptista and other Brazilian musicians, who toured with her and eventually they produced a recording, Brasileirinho.
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Paula Robison played with flutist Altamiro Carrilho and his ensemble in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paula Robison herself undertook the speaking part for two performances at Bargemusic in New York City.
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Paula Robison has since performed Schoenberg's work in many other venues.
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Paula Robison has been married to Scott Nickrenz, most recently Abrams Curator of Music Emeritus of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, since 1971.