| Joseph Robinson
For twenty-seven years, from June 1978 until September 2005, Joseph Robinson served as Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic. Following his famous predecessor Harold Gomberg, he was the last oboist in America to study directly with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau. Like both of them, Joseph Robinson became one of the most distinguished orchestra musicians of his era.
A native of Lenoir, North Carolina, Joseph Robinson majored in English and economics at Davidson College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Fulbright Award for study of federal governmental support to the arts in Germany. It was during this post-graduate year in Europe that he met Marcel Tabuteau and became that great teacher’s first student in the ten years following Mr. Tabuteau’s retirement from the Philadelphia Orchestra.
A frequent public speaker, he has keynoted the Wyoming Governor’s Conference on the Arts in Cheyenne and the Association of North Carolina Symphony Orchestras in Raleigh and has lectured widely on orchestra governance as well as the interpretative art of music. He was last heard at SILL two years ago.
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