Robert Brink

Robert Brink

Robert Greenleaf Brink (b. 1924) is an American violinist, conductor, and educator. He is a professor of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

He has performed with the harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham and has given the premieres of works by Walter Piston, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, and Daniel Pinkham. [http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/brinkR.html] Pinkham composed his 1958 violin concerto for Brink.

He has performed in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has played under the conductors Sergei Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, and Darius Milhaud. With Daniel Pinkham, Brink co-founded the Cambridge Festival Orchestra in the mid-1950s, serving as that orchestra's concertmaster. He founded the Boston Classical Orchestra and served as its concertmaster until 1995. He founded and conducts the Orchestra for the Art of Music (OAM), which performs music from the Classical period.

He has lived for many years in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

External links

* [http://robertbrinkonline.com/ Robert Brink official site]
* [http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/brinkR.html Robert Brink bio] from New England Conservatory site


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