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Robin Buck
Associate Professor of Music (Vocal Arts)
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: 107 Music & Media
Phone: 949-824–3803
E-mail: rbuck@uci.edu
M.M., University of Southern California
Baritone Robin Buck has distinguished himself in
opera, oratorio, concert, recital and musical theater, appearing
throughout the United States with companies including the New York
City Opera and the Los Angeles Opera. In Europe he
was in residence at Stadttheater Basel, Switzerland, performing
leading roles in standard and "new music" opera
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concert repertoire. He has also appeared as soloist
at the National Theater of Mannheim, Germany, the Opernhaus Zurich, and
sang the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera
with an international cast in Switzerland.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the City
of Birmingham Orchestra, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, and has
sung with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, including
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Pacific Symphony,
the Buffalo Philharmonic, and orchestras in Switzerland, Germany, Poland
and the United Kingdom, in baroque, classic, romantic and contemporary
works, including a number of world premieres.
Recent concerts include appearances with the Los Angeles
Master Chorale, the Chicago Symphony, the Pasadena Symphony, the Springfield
Symphony, the Traverse (MI) Symphony Orchestra and the title role in Sweeney
Todd as a guest artist with UCI Drama. He made his Disney Hall debut with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2004 in a program featuring Mahler’s
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, a work he has performed throughout Europe
and the United States.
Robin Buck is Director of Master Classes for the Basel
Hochschule fuer Musik / Jazzschule Basel at the International Stimmen
Festival in Germany and also directs a summer opera program at the Academie
de Musique in Sion, Switzerland. At UC Irvine he co-chairs the Vocal
Arts program and is Artistic Director of UCI Opera.
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