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Bassoonist, conductor
and music director who was voted one of the BBC Young Musicians of the Year
in 1978.
In the 1980s,
he appeared on the following recordings: J.F.X.D.
Stalder: Symphonie
G-dur; Flötenkonzert
B-dur; Constantin Reindel: Sinfonia Concertante D-dur; Mozart,
Bach, Vivaldi: Concertos; Villa-Lobos: Music for Flute; and, Vivaldi: 7 Concertos.
His credits in
the 1990s included: The Best of the Complete Mozart Edition;
Franz Berwald:
Grand Septet; Quartet for piano
and wind; Piano Trio No. 2; Haydn:
Symphonies Nos. 6 & 105;
Cello Concerto in D; Ligeti: Chamber Music; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Mozart: Chamber Music with Piano; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17, KV 453; Piano
Quintet KV 452; Mozart: Rarities and Surprises; Mozart: Three Wind Concertos; Schubert: Octet; and, The Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, whom he
co-founded.
In 2000, he
made his conducting debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra
of London at
the Rimini Festival. He has
also conducted A Soldier’s Tale
by Igor Stravinsky, including a 2004 production with Jeremy Irons, and a
2006 production with the backing of Kevin Spacey, at the Old Vic.
Other groups
he has conducted include the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade
Philharmonic, the City of London Sinfonia,
the English Chamber Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic, the London
Philharmonic, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Japan,
the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and the
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.
He has served
as principal conductor of Orchestra Citta Aperta, L’Quila, Italy,
principal bassoon of Endymion, the ECO and the Philharmonia, and music director of The Motion
Group. Other groups with whom
he has worked include the Gaudier Ensemble and the London Winds.
His recording
credits as a conductor include Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
and Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3 & 4. As a bassoonist, he can be heard on
a number of CDs in the new millennium:
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25; Quintet for piano
& winds, Op. 16; Clarinet Trio, Op. 11; Benjamin Britten Collector's Edition; Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi: Orchestral
Works; Mozart Box Set; Mozart: Oboe Concerto K. 314; Sinfonia Concertante K. 297b;
Clarinet Concerto K. 622; Schubert:
Octet; Shepherd on the Rock;
and, Shostakovich: Piano Quintet; Ustvolskaya:
Octet; Composition No. 3; Symphony No. 5.
In the field
of music education, he has served as professor of conducting at the Royal
College of Music and the Umbria
International Summer Music
Academy.
Sources:
- http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/orchestra/players/bassoons/robin_o_neill/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Young_Musician_of_the_Year
- http://www.endymion.org.uk/?page_id=29
- http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robin-oneill-q43362/credits/all
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