Robert L. Annis is and American musician and Dean and Director of Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University, which includes the Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College

Westminster Choir College is a residential college of music, part of Rider University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.Westminster Choir College educates men and women at the undergraduate and graduate levels for musical careers in music education, voice performance, piano...

. Annis, a Grammy-nominated clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

ist, has performed with various orchestras throughout the country. He serves as a member of Collage New Music, a chamber music organization based in Boston

Boston

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, and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra

Princeton Symphony Orchestra

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra is a professional U.S. orchestra based in Princeton, New Jersey. Rossen Milanov has been music director since 2009, leading the orchestra in critically acclaimed performances...

 in Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

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. He has served as Dean of Enrollment at the New England Conservatory.

Annis was previously a member of the San Antonio Symphony

San Antonio Symphony

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 and on the faculty of Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

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Annis is an alumnus of New England Conservatory, Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and the USC Thornton School of Music.