Mary Kay Robinson
Flute
Flutist Mary Kay Robinson has risen to national prominence as a versatile musician who has performed, recorded, toured with the Symphony orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Portland, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh and premiere chamber musicians throughout the United States. She balances a career of performance, teaching and arts leadership and has been featured soloist on flute and piccolo with the Southern Tier Symphony (NY), Cleveland Pops at Severance Hall, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. “Dazzling virtuosity…a hugely talented soloist”, critics heralded of her New York solo debut where she performed two concerti on different instruments. She is the founder of the international award winning mixed chamber ensemble, Panorámicos, the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, and former Chair of the National Flute Association’s Piccolo Committee. Chamber Music collaborations include musicians from Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Music from Angel Fire, Monadnock Chamber Music, ChamberFest Cleveland and the New Hampshire Music Festival. Previous posts include the Akron Symphony, Lyric Opera Cleveland, and the Playhouse Square Orchestra. She has championed the commissioning of new solo and chamber works for Flute, Piccolo and Alto Flute, and can be heard on recordings by Polyhymnia, Hyperion, Azica, TelArc, and Albany Records. As Artistic Director of Panorámicos, she produced three CD’s to international acclaim including “Editor’s Choice”,“ Top Pick”of North America” – Gramophone. Faculty appointments include Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Ithaca College, Franklin Pierce University and is a frequent clinician, adjudicator and guest artist working with aspiring musicians. She has given masterclasses and worked with orchestras and chamber musicians at Bowdoin College, Oberlin Conservatory, University of New Hampshire, University of Texas-El Paso, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, and The University of Akron. She serves as Director of the Bascom Little Fund, a philanthropic trust created to promote the work of NE Ohio composers, and previously Music from Angel Fire and ChamberFest Cleveland.