Nate Robinson

Biography:

Nate Robinson began studying the violin at the age of 5. At the age of 11 he made his solo debut with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Paganini?s Violin Concerto No. 1 and was subsequently invited once again to perform with the orchestra two years later. At the age of 12, as winner of the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, Nate Robinson performed as soloist with the MSM Philharmonic; Beethoven?s Romance in F and Sarasate?s Zigeunerweisen. Nate Robinson has also appeared as guest soloist with the Central Oregon Symphony performing Glazunov?s Violin Concerto, and with the Olympia Philharmonic performing Spohr?s Violin Concerto No. 8 across Southern California. As a recitalist, Nate Robinson has appeared in performance most notably in New York City?s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center performing works by Niccolo Paganini. In the winter of 2005 Nate Robinson performed a memorial tribute recital at the PNC Bank Recital Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania dedicated to the memory of the late President of Carnegie Hall, Robert Harth. Past performances also include concert appearances in Los Angeles, California sponsored by the Hennings Fischer Foundation at Zipper Hall of the Colburn School, and California State University in Los Angeles, the Texas Festival Institute at Round Top, and performances throughout Europe, Canada, and the Far East. Nate Robinson?s performance of the Vitali Chaconne was broadcasted on the Bravo! Network across Canada in the summer of 1996. He was also featured in a story on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) television network. At the Manhattan School of Music, Nate Robinson was awarded the Eugene Kahn and Carl Owen Scholarship awards. He was concertmaster of 2 of the school?s orchestras and a winner of the school?s concerto competition twice. In 2001 he was selected as the winner of the Friends of Stamford Symphony Scholarship Award Competition sponsored by the Stamford Symphony. In 2005, Nate Robinson was selected from a pool of applicants by the Jascha Heifetz Society in Los Angeles, California (dedicated to the memory of the great violinist to ensure the continuation of the Heifetz legacy; comprised of Mr. Heifetz' former students, personal friends, and teaching associates) to receive a grant to be coached by the virtuoso violinist Ruggiero Ricci in California. As a recording artist, Nate Robinson has recorded in motion picture soundtracks for films produced by Paramount Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Disney working with such film composers as Rolfe Kent (Legally Blonde, Wedding Crashers), George Fenton (Groundhog Day, You?ve Got Mail) and Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Last Mimzy) among others. Nate Robinson can also be seen performing as both an on screen violinist as the first violinist in a string quartet and as an actor in the Disney film 'When in Rome' starring Danny Devito and Kristen Bell set for release in 2009. Nate Robinson?s solo album Violin Classics (2006) can be downloaded on itunes, and other online vendors. Born in September 1984, Nate Robinson began his musical studies at the age of 5 in New Haven, Connecticut and attended the Manhattan School of Music, and Yale University, where he was a student of the late Erick Friedman, a famed concert violinist, recording artist for RCA, and pedagogue who was a protege of the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz.