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Geoffrey Robson


Geoffrey Robson is Associate Conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.  He completed his MM at Yale University in 2004, studying violin performance with Erick Friedman. Since then he has served as co-concertmaster of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and assistant concertmaster of the Waterbury Symphony. In 2006 he was involved as a founding member and conductor of the Chelsea Symphony, a bold experiment in the structuring of an arts organization, based in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

At the Mannes College of Music in New York Geoffrey Robson studied orchestral conducting under David Hayes. He has twice attended the London Conducting Workshop, an annual course at the Royal College of Music in London, and has guest-led several chamber orchestras in the New York area. He graduated from the honors college at Michigan State University in 2002.

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At the Symphony with Geoffrey Robson




Hear the full broadcast version of At the Symphony on KLRE, Classical 90.5, Thursdays at 11am and Fridays at 7pm before each of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks Concerts.

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2009-2010 Season Broadcast Dates




  Sept. 10 & 11 - Tchaikovsky, Violin Con.; Sibelius, Sym. No. 2; Nielsen, Saga Dream.




  Oct. 15 & 16 - Glinka, Ruslan & Ludmilla; Beethoven, Piano Con. No. 5; Tchaikovsky, Sym. No. 5.




  Nov. 5 & 6 - Brahms, Tragic Overture; Schumann, Cello Concerto; Beethoven, Symphony No. 5.




  Jan. 14 & 15 - Villa-Lobos, Sinfonietta No. 1; Grieg, Piano Concerto; Dvorak, Sym No. 8.




  Feb. 25 & 26 - Beethoven, King Stephan Overture; Sibelius, Violin Concerto; Brahms, Sym. No. 1.




  April 8 & 9 - Mahler, Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection."



2008-2009 Season Broadcast Dates




  Sept. 20 & 21 - Ravel, Bolero; Stravinsky, Firebird Suite; Dvorak, Cello Con.




  Oct. 18 & 19 - Barber, Second Essay; Paganini, Violin Con. No. 1; Schumann, Sym. No. 2




  Nov. 15 & 16 - Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Clarinet Con.; Sym. No. 41, "Jupiter"




  Jan. 17 & 18 - Brahms, Con. for Violin and Cello; Shostakovich, Sym. No. 5




  Feb. 28 & March 1 - Milhaud, Creation of the World; Beethoven, Sym. No. 9, "Choral"




  May 2 & 3 - R. Strauss, Don Juan; Copland, Appalachian Spring; Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

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