Honorary Professors

Robert Max

Robert Max enjoys a colourful career as a conductor, cellist and chamber musician. He regularly conducts the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in Romania, and has conducted the Oradea Philharmonic Orchestra. He was awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the Rachmaninov Institute after regularly conducting, giving recitals and directing a week-long chamber music academy in Russia. Robert has also performed as soloist and conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra and with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra. He currently conducts the Symphony and String Orchestras at Royal Holloway, University of London. In September 2005 he became Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra.

Robert's career as a solo cellist has taken him all over the world. As cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for eighteen years he has made many recordings and performed live on the BBC World Service and Radio 3 and on television and radio in Europe and the USA. Robert was Musical Director of Pro Corda, the National School for Young Chamber Music Players, from 1998 to 2000 and now coaches chamber music at MusicWorks. He is also Principal Cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra.