Robert Shannon.

     Robert Shannon has performed throughout the United States, South America, Asia  and Europe. His repertoire ranges from Bach to Adams, and he has been especially noted for penetrating interpretations of recent American music. He has commissioned and premiered works of John Harbison, Charles Wuorinen, Carla Bley and Steven Dembski, among others, and his recent recordings of sonatas by Charles Ives have received rave reviews in the world press. Mr. Shannon has performed regularly at the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Festival Tibor Varga in Switzerland, at the Sacramento Festival of American Music, and as guest artist with the Chicago Contemporary Chamber players. In recent seasons he has appeared in London, Paris, Rome, Stuttgart, New York, San Francisco, Colombia and Taiwan.
     Robert Shannon is a member of the piano faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory and is a Director of the Oberlin Festival and Competition. He has wide experience as a pianist, lecturer, and teacher, and for Bridge Records has recorded both Ives’ Concord Sonata and Ives’ complete works for violin and piano, and a disc of keyboard works by Tod Machover. He currently coaches with renowned pedagogue, Dorothy Taubman.