Robin Ireland
Robin Ireland was violist with the celebrated Lindsay String Quartet between 1985 and 2005, and with the Primrose Piano Quartet from 2007 till 2015. He was Head of Chamber Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire from 2014 till 2021. .He now performs as a soloist and freelance chamber musician and has returned to composing. He is an experienced and enthusiastic viola and violin teacher. He specialises in playing the great unaccompanied works for violin and cello, and is currently recording them.
Robin Ireland was a student at Cambridge University and at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. He had a short spell as leader of the Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra and subsequently became a founder member of the Piano Quartet, Domus, which toured with its own portable concert hall (a geodesic dome) as well as having great success in more conventional venues. He has broadcast as a soloist on BBC Radio 3, performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Liverpool Philharmonic and the London Mozart Players, and has in his repertoire most of the major works for viola. His orchestral experience includes working as guest principal viola with the CBSO, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, RLPO and Opera North. Read more.

Robin Ireland's Concerts and Events with Music in the Round
Monday 20 May 2024, 2.30pm
Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
MOZART & SCHUBERT
Ella Taylor, Robin Ireland & Ensemble 360
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