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Robert Durso
Faculty Member
Robert Durso attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music, obtained
his Bachelor of Music Degree from Indiana University and received his Master
of Music Degree from Temple University. Mr. Durso has performed extensively,
including appearances at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Toronto Music Festival,
Temple University, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and in a tour of South
Carolina sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. In September
of 2000, Mr. Durso was invited to Caracas, Venezuela by The US Embassy,
to present the Work of Dorothy Taubman for the first time in South America.
He has also presented master classes and concerts at Mount Holyoke College,
Portland State University, Berkeley Chapter of the San Francisco MTNA,
Spokane Music Teachers Association NEPTA in Boston, Tel Aviv, Israel, Rome
and Lecce, Italy. His engagements abroad have included concerts at La Chiesa
della Palma in Cagliari, Sardinia where he premiered a work by Sardinian
composer Roberto Mirigliano; the Palazzo Cenci in Rome; the Ehrbarsaal
in Vienna; L'Atelier in Brussels, as well as concerts in Zurich and Tunghai
University of Taichung, Taiwan and Oxford, England. He has been heard on
the "Young Keyboard Artists" broadcasts on WNCN-FM in New York and the
"Cunningham Piano Hour" on WFLN in Philadelphia. Mr. Durso has worked with
Edna Golandsky and Dorothy Taubman since 1983 and is a performing faculty
member of the Taubman Institute at Williams College. In addition to maintaining
private studios in New York and Philadelphia, Mr. Durso has been providing
Taubman training in the San Francisco, Portland and Boston areas. Mr. Durso
has performed with the Yaquina Symphony Orchestra under the baton of David
Ogden Stiers in a four-concert tour of the Oregon coast.
Mr. Durso's students have won numerous prizes and competitions
including the 1998 First Prize in the Kabalevsky-Bartok International Competition
(Jason Chase) and the Concours du Jazz de Paris (Tom Lawton).
Mr. Durso spoke about The Taubman Approach at The New School
for Music in Princeton on January 11, 2001.
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