Member
Contact Information
arobbins@smith.eduLocation
Amherst, Massachusetts
Early Music Skills & Interests
Cello, Vielle, Viola Da GambaEarly Music Affiliations
Board Member -Other, Educator, PerformerBiography
Alice Robbins received degrees from Indiana University and the Schola Cantorum of Basel, where she was a student of Hannelore Mueller. She has performed widely on baroque cello and viola da gamba in various chamber ensembles, including the Early Music Quartet (Studio der frühen Musik), Concerto Vocale, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Boston Camerata, and the Oberlin and Boston Consorts of Viols. She was a founding member of Concerto Castello, an international quintet specializing in the music of the early seventeenth century, and currently performs with Arcadia Players, Opera Lafayette, Arcadia Viols, Oberlin Consort of Viols and other ensembles.
Ms Robbins has recorded for Naxos, Centaur, Telefunken, EMI-Reflexe, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Smithsonian and Gasparo Records, as well as for many radio stations. A resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, Ms. Robbins teaches at Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges in the Five College Early Music Program.
