Robert enjoys a varied career as solo cellist, conductor and chamber musician

Robert is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) and has taught at Junior Academy since 1992. He is also an Honorary Professor of the Rachmaninov Institute in Tambov, Russia. As cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for 37 years, he performed on four continents and made several acclaimed recordings of music by Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Lalo, Schnittke, Mendelssohn and Alan Bush.

Robert conducts the Oxford and the North London Symphony Orchestras and was the principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra for 20 years. He is President of the North London Music Festival and coaches chamber music at MusicWorks.