Robert McDuffie
Internationally Renowned Concert Artist, Violin

Robert McDuffie has appeared as soloist with many of the major orchestras of the world, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Utah, St. Louis, Montreal, and Toronto Symphonies, the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the North German Radio Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome and all of the major orchestras of Australia. 

Recent appearances abroad have been at the Philharmonie in Cologne with the Bochum Symphoniker, in Taipei with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, and with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Hamburg Symphony (followed by a 22-city U.S. tour with the Hamburg Symphony).   He returns to Rome each June as the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Rome Chamber Music Festival.  (www.romechamberfestival.org) The Mayor of Rome has recently awarded Robert McDuffie  the prestigious Premio Simpatia in honor of his contribution to the cultural life of that city.

This season he returns to Europe for performances of the Bruch G minor Concerto at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in Utrecht, with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performances of the Rozsa Violin Concerto in Bordeaux.  He will also return to Korea for performances of the Barber Violin Concerto with the KBS Symphony in Seoul. To further celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Miklos Rozsa’s  birth, he will perform the Rozsa Violin Concerto with the Dallas Symphony as well as with the Utah Symphony.  He will give recitals with pianist Christopher Taylor, including Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center and at the National Academy of Sciences.   Future engagements include a U.S. tour with the Jerusalem Symphony and performances of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony.  He will premiere The American Four Seasons, a new work by Philip Glass, and will tour Europe and the United States, pairing it with the Vivaldi Four Seasons.  He will record both works for Telarc International.

Robert McDuffie is a Grammy nominated artist whose acclaimed recordings for Telarc include the violin concertos of Mendelssohn, Bruch, Adams, Glass, Barber, and Rozsa, as well as Viennese favorites. He plays a 1735 Guarneri del Gesu violin, known as the "Ladenburg."

Robert McDuffie has been profiled on NBC's "Today," "CBS Sunday Morning," PBS's "Charlie Rose," A&E's "Breakfast with the Arts," and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Robert McDuffie is a Distinguished University Professor of Music at Mercer University in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University has its official opening at the beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year. (www.mercer.edu/mcduffie )  He lives in New York with his wife and two children.    

Updated 8/20/07