Alongside his role at Yehudi Menuhin School, internationally regarded pedagogue Dr Robin Wilson is Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music London. He regularly serves on the faculty of the Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse in Israel, Valdres Sommersymfoni in Norway and Morningside Music Bridge at The New England Conservatory in Boston. He was Head of Violin at The Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne for nine years, and previously held appointments as Lecturer in Violin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Music. Robin is regularly invited to serve on juries of international competitions and give masterclasses throughout Australasia, Asia, Israel, Europe, UK and the USA. Current and former students are major prizewinners of many international competitions, including first prize (2018) and second prize (2021) of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. They perform internationally as soloists and hold principal and tutti positions with many orchestras in Australasia and around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic.

Robin has performed at major venues and festivals throughout Australia, USA and the UK, is regularly broadcast on all the major radio stations throughout Australasia, and has released solo and chamber music recordings on Decca, ABC Classics, Vexations840 and VDE-Gallo, including the complete Schubert Sonatas for Violin and Piano and two discs of violin encores. A member of the acclaimed Ironwood ensemble who have toured internationally, he is a former leader of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra and member of the Australian Octet, and has appeared as guest violinist with many leading Australian ensembles such as the Omega Ensemble, Ensemble Liaison, Australia Quartet and Nexus 2MBSFM Virtuosi, and has played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Antipodes and Pinchgut Opera.

Holding a PhD from the University of Sydney, Robin’s research into the performance practice of Brahms’s music was awarded the prestigious Geiringer Prize from the American Brahms Society and he has presented lectures and recitals at major institutions throughout the USA and UK, including Stanford and Yale Universities. In 2018 he received a National Award from the Australian String Teachers Association for outstanding services to the Australian string community and in 2022 was made an AUSTA Patron.

Robin studied in Sydney with Alice Waten and Janet Davies, and with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He plays a violin made by the Gagliano family in Naples in 1784.