Noel McRobbie
Dec 8th, 2007 by bkr
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Noel McRobbie took lessons for many years with Lee Kum-Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the University of British Columbia. He went on to receive a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying with Patricia Zander. Noel has received top prizes at many competitions, including the Eckhardt-Grammatte Piano Competition, CBC Debut Concert Artistes Series, and Grand Konzerteum International Piano Competition. In addition, he was named a top laureate at the 2006 Seiler International Piano Competition in Crete. Recent performances include Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, a solo recital presented by the Vancouver Chopin Society, and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Westcoast Symphony. Among the other venues he has performed at are Jordan Hall in Boston, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan where he is a student of Arthur Greene and was selected as winner of the 2007 University of Michigan Concerto Competition.
“Sunday’s concert was an outstanding success, with the audience giving guest soloist Noel McRobbie a standing ovation for his brilliant performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2” - The Record, New Westminster, British Columbia
Excellent interpretation of a wonderful piece.
Wonderful!
Pure delight for my auditory nerves!