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Robert Waters |
An active performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire and founding member of the Jupiter Trio and Callisto Ensemble, Music of the Baroque’s concertmaster Robert Waters has performed throughout the U.S. as well as abroad. He has appeared at major U. S. festivals including El Paso Pro-Musica, Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor Music Festival, Canadaigua Lake Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival, and toured the eastern U.S. with Musicians from Marlboro. A vigorous advocate of contemporary music, he has worked closely with such composers as Krysztof Penderecki, Gyorgy Kurtag, Luciano Berio, Leon Kirchner, Martin Bresnick, Augusta Read Thomas, Shulamit Ran, Bernard Rands, and George Perle.
As a member of the Jupiter Trio, Robert Waters was awarded First Prize in the 2002 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, and was invited to return to the country in 2004 for an 11-city tour, during which the group was the subject of a two-hour television program for Yomiuri TV. In 2003, the Jupiter Trio was a finalist for the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. With the Callisto Ensemble, he performs in and outside Chicago premiering new works by contemporary composers alongside masterworks from the past.
In demand as a teacher, Robert Waters was on the Artist/Faculty roster of the Crowden Chamber Music Workshop, and served in a similar capacity for five years as part of the Yehudi Menuhin Seminar in San Francisco, seven years at the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Summer Music Camp, and at the Stellenbosch International Music Festival in South Africa in 2007 and 2008. He was a featured performer and teacher with the Callisto Ensemble at the 40th Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University at Terre Haute (2006) and Outside the Box Festival of New Music at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (2008). He has coached the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Classical Philharmonic, and is has served as the Artistic Director for the DePaul Adult Chamber Music Workshop.
Robert Waters’ recordings include works of Beethoven and Shostakovich with the Jupiter Trio on Bridge Records, which won the Samuel Sanders Award for Collaborative Performance from the Classical Recording Foundation, as well as a CD released by the Japan Chamber Music Foundation with music of Mozart, Hummel, and Dvorak; a trio by Martin Bresnick on Canteloupe Music; and a trio by Kurt Westerberg, recorded for Southport Records. He is featured on the Callisto Ensemble’s debut recording of chamber music by Augusta Read Thomas, which was released in 2006.
