Geoffrey Robson is Associate Conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and violinist in the Sturgis Quartet, participating in a state-wide program of arts education for schoolchildren.

He completed his MM at Yale University in 2004, studying violin performance with Erick Friedman. Since then he has freelanced in Connecticut and New York City as a violinist and violist, including serving as co-concertmaster of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and assistant concertmaster of the Waterbury Symphony. He has also worked as a public schoolteacher in New Haven, CT, and has taught violin, piano, viola, and music theory extensively as a private teacher. 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.

Geoffrey Robson has studied orchestral conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York 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.

Hear the full broadcast version of At the Symphony on Classical 90.5, Thursdays at 11am and Fridays at 7pm before each of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks Concerts.  Click the buttons below to hear an archive edition of the program (with shortened music excerpts).

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.


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