Robert Max enjoys a colourful career as soloist, chamber-musician and conductor. He performs as a soloist throughout the UK, in Europe, Russia and the USA and has been the cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio since 1987. Robert is Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and conducts orchestras at Royal Holloway, University of London. As well as regular performances with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in western Romania, Robert has conducted the Oradea and Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestras. Robert studied with Florence Hooton at the RAM, Ralph Kirshbaum at the RNCM and Zara Nelsova at the Juilliard School. He teaches cello at the Junior Academy, coaches chamber music at MusicWorks and is principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra. In October 2002 he was named an Honorary Professor of the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia. He plays a Stradivarius cello dating from 1726 known as the "Comte de Saveuse". |
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