RAY ROBINSON
Music Director and General Manager

Professor Ray Robinson, a native of California's San Francisco Bay Area, studied violin as a child, and viola and conducting at San Jose State University. His masters and doctoral degrees, in conducting and musicology, were earned at Indiana University's School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana. Following appointments at Cascade College (Portland, Oregon), The Peabody Conservatory of Music (Baltimore), Westminster Choir College (Princeton), and Cambridge University's Wolfson College (England), Professor Robinson joined the faculty of Palm Beach Atlantic University in 1989 where he teaches courses in conducting and musicology. In addition to his duties at Palm Beach Atlantic University, he has served as Visiting Professor of Choral Studies at the University of Miami and Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (England). Dr. Robinson's conducting career has taken him to Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Romania and the Ukraine, where he has performed a variety of literature for orchestra and chorus. He is a recognized specialist in the music of Felix Mendelssohn, the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and the 17th century Germany composer Heinrich Schutz. In 1987, Westminster Choir College in Princeton honored Professor Robinson with the degree, Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa. He is listed in a number of biographical reference volumes including Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the World and International Who's Who in Music.

RAMON TEBAR

Ramon Tebar is establishing himself as one of the most exciting Spanish musicians of his generation. This young conductor from Valencia, although he is still in his twenties, has shown a deep interest in a broad array of classical music disciplines. His interest in conducting came at an early age, when at the age of fifteen, he started to work as a coach, pianist and musical assistant for Valencia's Music Palace, IVM (Valencian Institute of Music) in symphonic concerts and opera productions with conductors like Aprea, Biondi, Colomer, Frizza, Gomez-Martinez, Kellog, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Serebrier, Zedda,. Only a few years later he took the baton to conduct his first opera, debuting with Don Pasquale in Alicante and Cavalleria Rusticana in Cava de Tirreni (Italy). Meanwhile he graduated with honors at the Higher Conservatoire "Joaquin Rodrigo" in Valencia.

Ramon Tebar has appeared in concert in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States and has collaborated with artists such as Virginia Zeani, Ileana Cotrubas, Montserrat Caballe, Teresa Berganza and has played in concert halls around the world. He was invited to study orchestral conducting with Bruno Aprea, who held a teaching position in orchestral conducting at the Conservatoire of Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2005, Mr. Tebar was invited by Maestro Aprea to work as Assistant Conductor at the Palm Beach Opera, while maintaining a full schedule in Europe.

In the past, he has held the position of Specialist Professor in the Higher Conservatoire "Joaquin Rodrigo" in Valencia. He has been a member of the Youth National Orchestra of Spain and has been Assistant Conductor with F. Biondi, R. Frizza and J. Serebrier. He has also worked with the Naples Opera and the Opera Academy of Skive in Denmark. He has also held appointments as Assistant Conductor of the "Due Mondi" Spoleto Music Festival in Italy and Assistant Conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra..

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