Rob began violin lessons with Katharine Adams in Worthing before going on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, followed by private studies with Peter Poole in Sussex, Barna Kobori in Vienna, and later in London with Stephanie Gonley and Ofer Falk.
Rob’s career as a performer has taken him to venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Hammersmith Apollo and Ronnie Scott’s. He has performed alongside musicians including Boris Brovtsyn, Richard Durrant, Tom Gamble, Braimah Kanneh-Mason and Omar Puente.
Rob regularly gives recitals as a duo with pianist Evelina Ndlovu, with recent venues including Chapel Royal and St Nicholas in Brighton, Christ Church in Worthing and the Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum in Reykjavík.
On jazz violin he has performed with Duke of Norfolk at La Maroquinerie in Paris and Sur Les Pavés in Cordes-sur-Ciel, and at the Jailhouse and Victoria Institute in Arundel with Big House.
He plays with Musicians of All Saints in Lewes, is Co-Leader of Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, and has a long-standing collaboration with Zoe Peate’s Cantatrice choir as violin soloist in West Sussex and London.
In addition to his teaching for West Sussex Music, Rob has taught piano at the International School of Music and Fine Arts in Prague, and is a peripatetic teacher of violin and piano at Lancing Prep Worthing.
