Eric Robins
Trumpet
Born in: Concord, New Hampshire
Performing with Shen Yun since: 2012
Eric Robins holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree from New England Conservatory. He has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others, and is former principal trumpet of the Daegu Symphony Orchestra (South Korea). His fellowships include the Mabel Louise Riley Scholarship (New England Conservatory), National Orchestral Institute, Round Top International Music Festival, and Bar Harbor Brass. He was recently featured as the soloist in Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra’s recording of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto.
Maybe you never
noticed Chinese music has much in common with Korean kimchi. Credit for
this astute observation goes to Eric Robins, who is, as far as we can
tell, the first person in the world to discover the obvious parallel: “Flavors go wide. Flavors go deep, and sharp, spicy. It’s alive… you don’t know where you’re gonna end up.”
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Trumpeter Eric Robins is the king of musical chairs—he never knows where the music will take him, or which seat he’ll be in next. From Mexico to Kazakhstan... to Carnegie Hall with...