Robert Alan Radmer is the founder and Music Director of the Balcones Community Orchestra in Austin (TX), now in its eighth season. He has worked with youth orchestras
and adult ensembles in six states, and for ten years was Music Director of the Eastern New Mexico University Symphony Orchestra.
Radmer's primary conducting studies were with Gurer Aykal, General Director of the Turkish National Symphony. Radmer attended by invitation the American Academy of
Conducting at Aspen (2001) and the Conductor's Institute at the University of South Carolina (2002), and studied under conductors David Zinman, Murray Sidlin, Robert Spano,
Donald Portnoy, Samuel Jones, and Kate Tamarkin. |
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Radmer has performed as a violist with chamber ensembles and orchestras in over two thousand performances since 1981 in 21 states and ten countries. He was awarded the
Doctorate in Viola Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1993, and has served on the music faculties of Texas State University, the College of Saint Scholastica,
Eastern New Mexico University, and Southwest Texas State University. Radmer was honored by being named Teacher of the Year in 1996 by the American String Teachers Association (New Mexico Chapter).
In his spare time he is a composer of concert music and is also an active member of the popular music scene in Austin. He performs and records as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and improvising violist. |