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Robert McDuffie

Violinist Robert McDuffie is well acquainted with core classical repertory, but he has also worked with fellow Georgia-born musicians Gregg Allman and Mike Mills. He is the dedicatee of the Violin Concerto No. 2 of Philip Glass and is a champion of Glass' music. McDuffie was born in Macon, Georgia, on June 16, 1958. His family was musical; both his mother, Susan McDuffie, and his younger sister, Margerie McDuffie, are pianists. Mike Mills of the alternative rock band R.E.M. was a childhood friend. McDuffie attended the Juilliard School in New York, studying with famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay and even spending summers at her studio in Aspen, Colorado, for further instruction. McDuffie made his recording debut on the EMI Classics label in 1989 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin on an album containing William Schuman's Violin Concerto and Leonard Bernstein's Serenade for solo violin, strings, and percussion; that album was nominated for a Grammy award. In 1996, McDuffie moved to the Telarc label for the album Viennese Violin: The Romantic Music of Lehár, Kreisler and Strauss; his association with Telarc lasted for many years. McDuffie's early recording success created demand for his live performances. He has appeared with major orchestras around North America, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto. Abroad, he has been featured as a soloist with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Italy, as well as with orchestras in Australia and East Asia. Back home in the U.S., he has been featured on radio and television, including The Today Show on NBC television, National Public Radio, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. He performed the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with the Munich Symphony Orchestra on a 15-city U.S. tour. McDuffie's association with Glass began with a 1999 recording on Telarc of concertos by Glass and John Adams, and it grew as McDuffie was signed to Glass' Orange Mountain Music label. Glass dedicated his Violin Concerto No. 2 ("The American Four Seasons") to McDuffie, who recorded it for OMM in 2010 and has gone on to perform it more than 100 times. He has recorded several more albums for the label, including Icons (2022), with pianist and fellow Georgian Elizabeth Pridgen; the album featured works by Glass, Adams, and John Corigliano. McDuffie has maintained close connections with his home state, touring in 2016 with Mills in the latter's Concerto for violin, rock band, and string orchestra. A concert he performed with Rolling Stones pianist Chuck Leavell and the late Gregg Allman was included in the Allman biopic Midnight Rider, and he appeared with actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith in the latter's recitation Letter from the Birmingham Jail. McDuffie has also established the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings of Mercer University in his hometown of Macon.
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