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Students of Dr Robin Wilson:
Yume Tomita, Lin Tokura, Kipper Yang, Rose Gosney, Chloe Lui and Ana Zilberbord performing works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Milstein, Hubay, Ysaye, Frolov and Wieniawski. |
Robin Wilson
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Internationally regarded pedagogue, Dr Robin Wilson is Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Yehudi Menuhin School UK and in 2023-24 was visiting Professor of Violin at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. He regularly serves on the faculty of the Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse in Israel, Valdres Sommersymfoni in Norway and Morningside Music Bridge at The New England Conservatory in Boston. Previously he has held appointments as Head of Violin at The Australian National Academy of Music and Lecturer in Violin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Queensland and The Australian Institute of Music.
Robin has given masterclasses throughout Australasia, Asia, Israel, Europe, UK and the USA and his students are major prizewinners of international competitions, perform internationally as soloists and hold principal and tutti positions with many major orchestras. He is regularly invited to serve on the jury of international competitions. In 2018 he received a National Award from the Australian String Teachers Association for outstanding services to the string community in Australia. In demand as a pedagogue, he regularly presents online seminars and courses for ToneBase Violin and CEPIC in Europe. Robin has performed at major venues and festivals throughout Australia, USA and the UK, is regularly broadcast on all the major radio stations throughout Australasia, and has released solo and chamber music recordings on Decca, ABC Classics, Vexations840 and VDE-Gallo. A member of the acclaimed Ironwood ensemble who have toured internationally, he is a former leader of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra and member of the Australian Octet, and has appeared as guest violinist with many leading Australian ensembles. Robin’s research into the performance practice of Brahms’s music was awarded the prestigious Geiringer Prize from the American Brahms Society and he has presented lectures and recitals at major institutions throughout the US and UK, including Stanford and Yale Universities. Robin studied in Sydney with Alice Waten and Janet Davies, and with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He plays a violin made by the Gagliano family in Naples in 1784. |
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Dina Duisen |
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Kazakh-British pianist Dina Duisen was born into a family of musicians in Almaty, Kazakhstan. At the age of five, Dina started studying piano at Kulyash Bayseitova State Special School for Gifted Children together with her two brothers Ordabek and Ilyas, who are both violinists. By the age of thirteen she had made her debut with the Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from school, Dina continued her studies at the Kazakh National Academy of Music, graduating with distinction in 2005, before being awarded a full scholarship on the Artist Diploma programme at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, from which she graduated in 2008. At the same time, Dina was invited to work as a teacher of music at the Texas Wesleyan University. In September 2008, Dina started studying for the new Master of Arts Degree in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Christopher Elton, Hamish Milne and Kathryn Stott, and graduated with distinction in 2011. She took part in IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music. Twice Dina participated at Sergei Babayan Piano Academy in Cleveland Institute of Music. Dina was a regular participant of the Oxford Piano Festival and played at the 20th Anniversary Alumni Concert in 2018.
Along with her brother Ordabek, Dina has been playing chamber music as part of the Duisen Duo in the UK, Italy, USA and at The Presidential Centre of Culture in Kazakhstan. Dina has performed is at Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in Oxford, Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, King’s Place, Milton Court, Cadogan Hall, The Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall. In April, 2011 Dina had a concert as a guest artist at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, USA, and in 2012 Dina performed Prokofiev's 1st Piano Concerto at the Season Opening Concert of Astana Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2014, she gave the Asian premiere of 'Mazurkas' by British composer Thomas Adès. She has been the resident class pianist at the IMS Prussia Cove and Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, currently working at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music. In October, 2016 Dina performed with two principal clarinettists of Cleveland and London Symphony Orchestras - Franklin Cohen and Chris Richards. In 2017 Dina joined Sinfonia Cymru for Twisted Rhythms: Mark-Anthony Turnage Birthday Concert at the Vibrate Festival. Dina was invited to make her debut at George Enescu Festival in Bucharest with the Mercury Quartet. She regularly works with violinist Nicola Benedetti. In October, 2018 she made her debut at Cadogan Hall in a dramatised concert 'Byron: Angel & Outcast' with actors Simon Russell Beale and Rob Heaps, the same concert was given in Astana, Kazakhstan. Dina released her solo debut album 'Mazurkas from Chopin to Adès' which was recorded at Kings Place with the Grammy-award winning producer Andrew Keener. |
Dina Duisen
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