Nathaniel Robinson began studying the violin at the age of five and made his debut at ten years old performing the Paganini Violin Concerto #1 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. He has since appeared internationally as a guest soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center, and at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. He has also performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music and at the Musikalischer Sommer in Ostfriesland (Germany).

As an orchestral violinist, Nathaniel Robinson performed with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Center in 2023 and 2024 under the batons of David Robertson and Hannu Lintu, and will perform with The Cleveland Orchestra again in the 2025 season. He has recorded on over a dozen soundtracks for Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures.

His honors and awards include winning the Gold Prize at Season 4 of the Universal Stars Music Competition (2022), the Jascha Heifetz Society-Steinway & Sons Award (2013), first prizes at the Friends of Stamford Symphony Competition, and Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, in addition to being a recipient of the Connecticut Alliance for Music Young Artist Award, the Carl Owen, Elaine Bart, & Eugene B. Kahn Awards at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Stephen Adams Award at Yale University.

A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, he has pursued further studies at Columbia University (B.A. majoring in History and minoring in American Studies) and Yale University (Certificate in Performance).
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During his formative years, he studied with the late renowned American violinist Erick Friedman, a protégé of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz. He later continued his studies with Sidney Harth, the noted violinist and former Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

 

Nathaniel’s violin was made by Andrea Guarneri, circa 1680, Cremona, Italy.  He also plays on instruments by Francesco Guadagnini, dated 1921, Turin, Italy, and Phillip Injeian, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.