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Robert Waters, violin
One might think that having a music theorist/composer and a piano
teacher/choral conductor as parents would inspire Robert Waters to strive
for greatness as a young violin prodigy. Actually, Robert reluctantly
began playing the violin in his native Kent, Ohio, at the age of five
only with the gentle insistence of his parents. Despite a remarkably
musical ear, he improved but moderately over the first few years while
sharpening his table tennis skills and devising various ways to get out
of practicing. Only after attending a recital by the great virtuoso,
Itzhak Perlman, did Robert awaken to the great beauty and power of the
violin; and so, the hard work began in earnest. A string of first class
pedagogues, including Robert Mann, Syoko Aki, Donald Weilerstein, Victor Danchenko,
David and Linda Cerone, and David Updegraff helped to shape and refine all
matters technical and musical, but chamber music quickly became Robert’s
idée fixe. He developed a voracious appetite for chamber works of all
kinds; summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, as well as a Musicians from
Marlboro tour and a spot on the Marlboro 50th Anniversary CD cemented Robert’s
desire to create an ensemble of his own.
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