Ringwood, 30 May - 19 July 2025
Robert Chamberlain
Robert Chamberlain studied for Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia under Max Cooke, in Vienna as a winner of the Apex/Robert Stolz Scholarship, and also at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. He works nationally and internationally as an adjudicator, presenter and performer, and is a partner in the Melbourne based Team of Pianists -Artists in Residence for the National Trust of Australia (Vic). Between 2004 and 2013 he developed and directed the Team’s annual Spring Piano School, an intensive enrichment program for school aged pianists aged from 6 to 18, which attracts young pianists and observers from Victoria, interstate and overseas. Along with the other three Team of Pianists partners, he performs in and directs the Twilight Chamber Music at Rippon Lea concert series, now in its 23rd year, and the Classic Music in Historic Venues series, both currently supported by the C & C Rigg Bequest.
Concert engagements with Australian and international colleagues have taken him to Turkey, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Canada, as well as around Australia. His recordings on around 15 CD’s encompass music for solo piano, two pianos, chamber music, voice and piano, and include the Team of Pianists numerous CD’s as well as the Tall Poppies, Naxos, Move Records and VoxAustralis labels. Concert performances in the past 18 months have included chamber music by Koessler, Mendelssohn, Gade, Glinka and Piazzolla in Sydney and Melbourne with violinist Marina Marsden and violist Justine Marsden from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, accompanying vocal music from Australia and Scotland with soprano Justine Anderson, mezzo-soprano Vivien Hamilton and alto Jeannie Marsh (from Icon Trio), piano solos by Mendelssohn, Grainger, Maxwell-Davies, and trio by Brahms and Beethoven plus JS Bach in The Four B’s with Robert Schubert clarinet and Josephine Vains cello.
Robert is on the piano faculty of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne. As a scholar he has edited, with violinist Marina Marsden (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), a critical edition of Australian composer Margaret Sutherland’s Sonata for Violin and Piano (Currency Press, 2000) and written articles and reviews. His professional interests include teaching and learning processes for piano teaching and performance, creativity in piano pedagogy, and style and technique in piano performance. A paper on creativity and piano teaching – http://www.appca.com.au/pdf/papers2015/part2/2015-APPC-Chamberlain—Musical-Creativity-and-Piano-Pedagogy.pdf – may be found at http://www.appca.com.au/2015proceedings.php and an article about the world of the digital piano at http://www.rolandcorp.com.au/blog/top-key-by-robert-chamberlain/.
He has recently begun to develop a YouTube channel to present repertoire and skill-based supporting material for his piano students.
See http://www.teamofpianists.com.au/partners/robert-chamberlain and