Mr. EVAN ROBINSON
(B.MUSIC; M. MUSIC)
VIOLIN, VIOLA fACULTY
Evan is an award-winning violinist and violist whose career spans prestigious concert stages and chamber music festivals, Evan has performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra Seminar and throughout Asia, including appearances at Tokyo’s City Opera Concert Hall with the Music Masters Course Japan and in Hong Kong as a guest artist for the Hong Kong Arts Festivals. He holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, respectively. He has served as principal in the McGill Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University’s Philharmonic, Concert, and Baroque Orchestras, and performed under renowned conductors such as Carl St. Clair, David Effron, Paul Nadler, Kent Nagan, and Naoto Otomo.
As a member of the Milton String Quartet, Evan won the Senior String Division Gold Medal and Grand Prize at the 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Competition, North America’s largest chamber music competition. He was also named a semi-finalist of the Golden Violin competition, Canada’s largest collegiate prize in music. Evan has been privileged to work with and learn from members of today’s most preeminent chamber ensembles such as the Alban Berg, Ébène, Escher, Hagen, Jupiter, and Tokyo Quartets, along with notable artists such as Jinjoo Cho, Kim Kashkashian, and Wolfgang Redik. Evan has appeared on CBC Music’s lists of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 and Montreal’s 10 emerging acts to watch.
An accomplished teacher, Evan has taught students of all ages globally at preeminent institutions, teaching for Indiana University’s precollege program which incorporates the Suzuki method under the guidance of renowned pedagogue Mimi Zweig, serving as a graduate instructor at McGill University, a teaching artist for the Noel Pointer Foundation in Brooklyn, and engaging in a wide range of private teaching in Hong Kong for top music academies as well as Hong Kong University’s Music Society. Evan enjoys both working with young students to establish excellent fundamentals and mentoring advanced students who are serious about pursuing music professionally.
Evan maintains a wide range of hobbies outside of his musical endeavors, including tournament chess, cooking, and martial arts. He has a strong interest in the legal field and additionally holds a Juris Doctor degree from Hong Kong University and a Master of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania.