Winner of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Pro Musicis Award and a Grammy nominee, cellist Sharon Robinson is recognized as a consummate artist and one of the most outstanding musicians of our time. Whether Ms. Robinson appears as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, or member of the exciting new ESPRESSIVO! Piano Quartet, critics, audiences and fellow musicians respond to what the Indianapolis Star has called “a cellist who has simply been given the soul of Caruso.” Her guest appearances include the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Symphonies of Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, National, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco. In Europe she has performed with the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra and the English, Scottish and Frank Liszt Chamber Orchestras. Sharon Robinson is a devoted Chamber Music player, and also serves as Co-Artistic Director of the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati and the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle with her husband, violinist Jaime Laredo. Highly sought after for her dynamic master classes, she brings insight to her teaching from the rare combination of her lifetime experiences as a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University, and 45 years with the beloved Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, plus countless solo recitals and concerto performances. Committed to the music of our time, Ms. Robinson has worked closely with many of today’s leading composers including Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, Arvo Pärt, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Stanley Silverman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Joan Tower and David Serkin Ludwig. She is admired for her consortium-building, putting together multiple presenters as co-commissioners of both chamber and concertos with orchestra. Her latest project has gathered nine presenters coast to coast to co-commission “EPIPHANIES”, a String Trio for Jaime Laredo, Milena Pájaro Van de Stadt and herself by Richard Danielpour.