Roberto Kolb Neuhaus is a Mexican musicologist and oboist of Austrian origin. He is widely known for his researches of Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor.-Life:...

. He has written many books and essays about the composer published in Mexico

Mexico

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, United States

United States

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, Vienna

Vienna

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, and Berlin

Berlin

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. He has been invited to musical congresses worldwide. In 1998 he published the first complete catalogue of Revueltas's works. He is the leading authority in Revueltas music.

He studied in the Conservatory of The Hague

The Hague

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 where he obtained a degree in oboe

Oboe

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 and a special degree in english horn. He has studies in baroque oboe, composition

Musical composition

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 and sociology of music. He received a Ph.D. in History of Art from National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

 UNAM

Unam

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. For 15 years he played the oboe and English horn in Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico and in Filarmonica de la UNAM.
He is founder and artistic director of Camerata de las Americas.
Since 1994 he is teacher and researcher in Escuela Nacional de Musica UNAM.
Recently he collaborated with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato in the first world recording of Revueltas's orchestral work ¨Esquinas¨ in its two versions.

External links

• http://www.robertokolb.com/ Roberto Kolb Web Page in Spanish