Robert Emery is an English pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

, conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

 and orchestrator.

Life

Robert Emery (born 22 March 1983) is an English pianist, conductor and orchestrator. He started playing the piano at the age of seven, studied at the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...

, and since making his London Debut when he was thirteen, has performed Internationally as a recitalist and conductor.

Robert Emery has made two solo piano albums, performed for members of the Royal Family and has given a private recital for Members of Parliament in the historic Westminster Hall. He has recently been Associate Musical Supervisor on Dallebach Kari das Musikal in Switzerland, conductor of FIVE TV’s production of My First Carol Concert, assistant Musical Director on the West-End production of Zorro.

He has conducted amongst others the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, British Philharmonic, Singapore Lyric Symphony and Chorus, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Arts Symphonic, Birmingham Philharmonic, West London Orchestra and Chorus, Ad-Hoc Orchestra and Choir of Great Britain, The London Chorus and choirs internationally.

He is the personal Musical Director for Russell Watson recently travelling to Miami and Singapore; he is also conducting the UK tour 2011, and other concerts in the UK, Japan and China.

As musical director or associate, Robert Emery has also worked on; Royal Variety Performance 2010 (Palladium), FIVE TV’s My First Carol Concert (UK Tour), the broadway film of A Tale of Two Cities (Theatre Royal, Brighton), Betwixt (Ambassadors West End and King’s Head), Variety Club International Awards (Guildhall, London) Opening of St Pancras International (New London Children’s Choir), Plague Songs with Damon Albarn (Barbican), BBC Christmas Celebration (BBC TV Centre), Honk! (Trinity College of Music), Red Cross Royal Gala Ball (Mansion House), Celebrating Politics (Westminster Hall), 10 Minute Musical Challenge (Greenwich Theatre), Boorskale (Soho Theatre), And the World Goes Round, Joseph, An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bugsy Malone, Rocky Crusades and An Evening of Musicals and Music.

Robert was also assistant Musical Director for the West End production of Zorro, Musical Director for the West End production of Betwixt, the Conductor for FIVE TV’s production of My First Carol Concert and Associate Musical Supervisor for the world premier of Dallebach Kari das Musikal in Switzerland.

In February 2011, he devised, directed, arranged, co-orchestrated and conducted the Basel Symphony Orchestra for a joint concert with the Europe-wide famous band, ‘Lovebugs

Lovebugs (band)

The Lovebugs are a Swiss Britpop inspired band from Basel, Switzerland founded in 1992.They are one of Switzerland's most successful bands with three number one albums in the Swiss charts...

’ in Switzerland’s StadtCasino. He is also famous for conducting and playing bare-foot.

He was taught by pianists Stephen Coombs

Stephen Coombs

Stephen Coombs is one of Britain's best known pianists and currently works with some of the world's foremost orchestras and conductors, as well as performing as a solo artist.-Earlier life:...

, Heather Slade-Lipkin

Heather Slade-Lipkin

-Life:Heather Slade-Lipkin was born into a musical family from Hoylake, Wirral, and by the age of six had already begun formal piano lessons with her mother Joan Slade, a disciple of Artur Schnabel, and then later studied with pianist Marie Gilcriest...

 and Ruth Nye

Ruth Nye

Ruth Nye MBE, is a pianist and teacher of Australian origin.Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, grew up in Australia. She was invited to New York to be a pupil of the Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau by Arrau himself after he heard her play in Australia...

 (alumnus of Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...

) meaning that Robert Emery is a piano descendant of Egon Petri

Egon Petri

Egon Petri was a classical pianist.-Biography:Petri's family was Dutch and he was born a Dutch citizen, but he was born in Hanover in Germany and was brought up in Dresden. His father was a professional violinist who taught his son that instrument. Petri played in the Dresden Court Orchestra and...

, Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

, Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...

, Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

, Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

, Muzio Clementi

Muzio Clementi

Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...

, Martin Krause

Martin Krause

Martin Krause was a German concert pianist, piano teacher, music critic, and writer.- Career :Martin Krause was born in Lobstädt, Saxony as the youngest son of the choirmaster and church schoolmaster Johann Carl Friedrich Krause in Lobstädt...

, Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

, Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...

, Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

, Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...

, Mozart and Bach

Bạch

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. He was taught conducting by Neil Thomson

Neil Thomson

Born on the 23rd May 1966, Neil William Thomson is a British conductor and conducting teacher.Having initially studied the viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Neil won a place at the Royal College of Music in South Kensington, London, to study orchestral conducting with Norman Del Mar,...

 (alumnus of Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

) meaning that Robert Emery is also a conducting descendant of Fritz Reiner

Fritz Reiner

Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.-Biography:...

, Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky , was a Russian-born Jewish conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949.-Early career:...

, Arthur Nikisch

Arthur Nikisch

Arthur Nikisch ; 12 October 185523 January 1922) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London and - most importantly - Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt...

, Felix Otto Dessoff

Felix Otto Dessoff

Felix Otto Dessoff was a German conductor and composer.-Biography:Dessoff was born in Leipzig and entered the conservatory there where he studied composition, piano and conducting with some of the foremost teachers of the day, including Ignaz Moscheles for piano and Moritz Hauptmann and Julius...

, Johann von Herbeck

Johann von Herbeck

Johann Ritter von Herbeck was an Austrian musician, born in Vienna, best known for leading the premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony....

 and Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr.

Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr.

Josef “Pepi” Hellmesberger, Jr. was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor.Hellmesberger was son of violinist and conductor Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr. , who was his first teacher. Among his family of notable musicians include: grandfather, Georg, Sr. ; uncle, Georg, Jr...

. His other work includes composing, arranging and is the Chief Executive of The Arts Group Limited which encompasses the UK’s leading specialist one-2-one home music tuition service, the Arts Academy.

Pianist

• Purcell Rooms Solo Recital (1996)
• Enlightening" Album' (1999)
• Robert Emery UK Tour (2002)
• Robert Emery Live in Concert" Album (2002)
• Robert Emery UK Tour (2003)
• Stafford Music Festival (2003/04/05/07)

Musicals

• Robert Emery UK Tour (2003)
• FIVE TV's My First Carol Concert Tour (2009)
• Zorro
  Zorro (musical)
  Zorro is a musical with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, a book by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, and lyrics by Stephen Clark. It is based on the 2005 mock biography Zorro, the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende...
  
  (London, 2008)
• Betwixt! (London, 2008)
• Dällebach Kari - das Musical (2010/2011)
• Gotthelf - das Musical (2011)

Conducting

• Russell Watson
  Russell Watson
  Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club...
  
  (Singapore, 2011)
• Lovebugs & Basel Symphony Orchestra
  Lovebugs (band)
  The Lovebugs are a Swiss Britpop inspired band from Basel, Switzerland founded in 1992.They are one of Switzerland's most successful bands with three number one albums in the Swiss charts...
  
  (Basel, Switzerland, 2011)

Orchestrations and Arrangements

• Lovebugs & Basel Symphony Orchestra
  Lovebugs (band)
  The Lovebugs are a Swiss Britpop inspired band from Basel, Switzerland founded in 1992.They are one of Switzerland's most successful bands with three number one albums in the Swiss charts...
  
  (Basel, Switzerland, 2011)
• Seven & 21st Century Orchestra (Luzern, Switzerland, 2011)

External links

• http://www.robertemery.com
• http://www.facebook.com/robertemeryofficial
• http://www.twitter.com/robemery