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Robert Brink

1924 – 2014

American conductor

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Lived 1924 – 2014 (aged 89–90). Robert Brink was an American composer and conductor.

Robert Greenleaf Brink (Boston, 30 March 1924 - Boston, 24 October 2014) was an American violinist, conductor, and educator. He was a professor of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

He performed with the harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham and gave the premieres of works by Walter Piston, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, and Daniel Pinkham. Pinkham composed his 1958 violin concerto for Brink.

He performed in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and played under the conductors Sergei Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, and Darius Milhaud. With Daniel Pinkham, Brink co-founded the Cambridge Festival Orchestra in the mid-1950s, serving as that orchestra's concertmaster. In 1951 and 1952, Brink and Pinkham performed at Brown University and Wellesley college under the auspices of the Peabody Mason Concerts. Brink founded the Boston Classical Orchestra and served as its concertmaster until 1995. He founded and conducted the Orchestra for the Art of Music (OAM), which performs music from the Classical period.

He lived for many years in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.

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1924
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Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
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Robert Greenleaf Brink

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Who was Robert Brink?

American conductor (1924-2014)

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Robert Brink was born in 1924.

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Robert Brink died on 24 October 2014.

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Robert Brink was a composer and conductor.

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Robert Brink was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Robert Brink

· Wikidata: Q7342363

· DBpedia: Robert Brink

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