Robert Chamberlain
Robert Chamberlain studied piano in Melbourne with Max Cooke, continued in Vienna with David Lutz and Igo Koch, and worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, coaching with artists including John Perry, Peter Donohoe, János Starker and Loránd Fenyves.
A partner in the Melbourne-based Team of Pianists, his performing life takes in radio broadcasts, studio and compact disc recordings, and concerts, often with instrumentalists and singers. He has recorded repertoire from Haydn and Liszt to contemporary Australian works on the Team’s CDs, and is the pianist in works by Grieg, Nielsen, Kreisler and Heim on Violin Recital (TP067). In June 1995 he recorded with Marina Marsden and colleague Darryl Coote for the Team’s sixth CD, Homage to Brahms (MCD 064).
Robert Chamberlain is an active teacher, both privately and as a Gardiner Teaching Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Music, and in the Department of Music at Monash University.
Robert Chamberlain is featured on the following titles
Violin Recital
Marina Marsden, then Deputy Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a seasoned chamber player, brings faultless technique and real insight to these less familiar corners of the violin repertoire.
Robert Chamberlain also appears on
Margaret Sutherland: The Chamber Music with Strings
World premiere recordings of marvellous chamber music by one of Australia's neglected composers. Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984) studied with Arnold Bax in the 1920s and returned home to write some of this country's most original and striking works.
Robert Chamberlain is a member of
Team of Pianists
The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.