ROBIN STEVENS COMPOSER

Robin Stevens was born in Wales in 1958, and grew up in the south of England. His early musical experiences included, as a very young child, singing himself to sleep with melodies absorbed from overhearing his mother practising the piano. Being a member of the local church choir, and playing cello in the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra, were important formative influences. At the age of sixteen he undertook a two-year preparatory music course at Dartington College, Devon - overall, a very positive experience indeed - and at Dartington he performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the College orchestra... Robin's interest in composing, and indeed his decision to be a professional musician, was precipitated by watching a televised masterclass given by the French cellist, Paul Tortelier, on the first of Beethoven's Cello Sonatas, and throughout his teens, Robin produced passable pastiches of mainstream Classical composers such as Mozart and Mendelssohn. At eighteen he undertook the Joint..

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