Originally from New York City, Robert was raised in South Florida, where he began his musical studies on both violin and piano. Robert majored in Violin Performance at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD with Violaine Melancon of the Peabody Trio. After receiving his Bachelor’s, he attained his Master of Arts and Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance at Montclair State University where he studied with Weigang Li of the Shanghai Quartet. While at Montclair, Robert was the Graduate Assistant of the Orchestra.

Robert has been featured as guest soloist with numerous orchestras in Florida, New York, New Jersey, and along the East Coast, and has collaborated with some of the world’s most iconic musical figures such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Jamie Laredo, and many others. Internationally, Robert has performed in several chamber music settings including at the East China Normal University, Western District Chamber Music of Hong Kong, and the ‘Konzert im Kirchgarten’ series in Hanover, Germany. Robert enjoys an active orchestral musical life, where he performs with with several different ensembles like the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the New Jersey Symphony and the Berkshire Opera Festival in Great Barrington, MA. He has also appeared with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, the Bangor Symphony in Maine, the Helena Symphony in Montana, and most recently with the Curtis Institute Orchestra in Philadelphia, PA. Robert is the founder of the New Jersey Chamber Players and the concert series “Music in the Library” at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Littman Library, where he gives musical lectures for the student body paired with concerts of trios and string quartets.

On the pedagogical side, Robert is the Violin Faculty at the Cazadero Performing Arts Camp in Cazadero, CA, and currently runs the violin program at the Robert Treat Academy Charter School in Newark, while also accompanying the chorus on piano. Robert was recently brought on to the Wharton Institute of the Performing Arts faculty where he coaches the violin sections of the New Jersey Youth Orchestra. Robert also teaches several private students in the North Jersey area, who have participated in New Jersey Region and All-State orchestras, and some who have gone on to study music at the collegiate level. Starting in January 2022, Robert is now Adjunct Faculty of Violin and Viola at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, New Jersey.