Robert McDonald

Robert McDonald, United States - member of the piano Jury 2014

Robert McDonald has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. He has performed with major orchestras in the United States and was the recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern and other distinguished instrumentalists. He has participated in renowned festivals (Marlboro, Casals, Lucerne) with reputed ensembles such as the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo and St. Lawrence string quartets. Mr. McDonald’s prizes include the Gold Medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell International Competition and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. His teachers include Theodore Rehl, Seymour Lipkin, Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Beveridge Webster, and Gary Graffman. He holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music. A member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School since 1999, Mr. McDonald joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2007. During the summer, he is the artistic director of the Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico.