Paula Robison
Sometimes known as "the first lady of the flute," Paula Robison has been an energetic and visible ambassador for her instrument as well as a gifted performer. She was born in Nashville but moved to California when she was young. Her first instrument was the piano, but she took up the flute at age 11 and eight years later entered the Juilliard School. While still at Juilliard she performed with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein and made her New York recital debut. She graduated in 1963 and went on to study with the legendary Marcel Moyse at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont. After becoming the first American to win the top prize at Switzerland's Geneva International Competition in 1966, she performed in recital and with major orchestras in the U.S. and internationally. Her repertoire is broad, and her collaborators have ranged from Baroque-oriented groups like I Solisti Veneti to New York's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra to the New World Symphony, with whom she has often performed Berio's Sequenza I. She has also commissioned and premiered works by Leon Kirchner, Robert Beaser, Toru Takemitsu, and Oliver Knussen.
One of those rare performers with a gift for organizational leadership, Robison became a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 and held the title of artist-member there for 20 years. She and her husband, violist Scott Nickrenz, became co-artistic directors of chamber music at the Spoleto Festival of Two World in Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, SC, in 1977 and later at the festival's Melbourne, Australia, branch. Achieving a degree of visibility uncommon among classical musicians, Robison has been profiled on CBS television's Sunday Morning and PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. She has been the subject of feature articles in such varied publications as The New York Times, Esquire, People, Women Who Rock, Musical America (where she was named "Musician of the Month"), and Ovation.
Active as a teacher at the New England Conservatory and other institutions in recent years, Robison has also undertaken several innovative recording projects in middle age. She has cultivated a strong interest in Brazilian music of all kinds, touring with Brazilian classical musicians, forming an ensemble called Brasileirinho that was devoted to the popular chôro dance genre, and, in the 2003-2004 season, performing her own transcriptions of Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos for flute, strings, guitar, harpsichord organ, and Brazilian percussion. She is also the author of several books.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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The Art Of Paula Robison
Classical - Released by Musical Concepts on 22 Jul 2008
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One Hundred Roses
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 1 Jan 2006
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French Masterpieces For Flute And Piano
Classical - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 1 Jan 2003
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Caprice
Paula Robison, Paavali Jumppanen
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 27 Jun 2016
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Samatureya
Frédéric Hand, Trio Virado, Brasil Guitar Duo, Paula Robison
Chamber Music - Released by Panoramic Recordings on 6 Apr 2018
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Mountain Songs: A Cycle of American Folk Music
Chamber Music - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 1 Jan 1986
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J.S. Bach
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 1 Jan 2006
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Duos from Marlboro
Paula Robison, Daniel Phillips, Ida Levin, Rudolf Serkin, Peter Zazofsky, Jeremy Denk
Chamber Music - Released by Bridge Records on 15 Jul 2006
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Canciones Latinas
Classical - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 1 Jan 2003
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Playing New York
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 12 Feb 2014
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Borne: Carmen Fantasy - Paula Robison
Classical - Released by Vanguard on 22 Mar 2005
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Beaser/Schoenfield/Schwantner: Flutes
Solisti New York Chamber Orchestra, Carol Wincenc, Paula Robison, Wilson Ransom
Classical - Released by New World Records on 1 Jan 1991
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Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2-13
Classical - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 9 Jul 2021
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By The Old Pine Tree
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 1 Jul 1996
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Edvard Grieg, Joachim Andersen
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 1 Jan 2006
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Paula Live
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 1 Jan 2008
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The Romantic Flute
Classical - Released by Vanguard on 7 Jan 1997
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Classic
Classical - Released by Pergola Recordings on 28 Sep 2017
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