Robert McDuffie
Join us for an evening of music and to learn more about the Rome Chamber Music Festival, which was founded by Robert McDuffie in 2003. Since its inception, the festival has played to full houses of chamber music enthusiasts from around the world and has become one of Rome’s most anticipated cultural events. June 8 -12, 2014, at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy, the festival will present contemporary works and chamber masterpieces. The concerts will be performed by world-renowned artists and emerging musicians who are participants of its distinguished Young Artist Program.
Robert McDuffie, the festival’s artistic director, is a Grammy nominated artist who has appeared as a soloist with most of the major orchestras of the world. He gave the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons – a work written for Robert McDuffie – with the Toronto Symphony. It was recorded with the London Philharmonic and Marin Alsop on Philip Glass’ Orange Mountain Music label. His acclaimed Telarc and EMI recordings include the violin concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Adams, Glass, Barber, Rozsa, Bernstein, William Schuman, and Viennese violin favorites. He plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesù violin, known as the “Ladenburg”.