Robert Sorel

I try to help my students to find their own relationship with music, and support the development of their creativity. I use creative teaching methods which enable my students to learn their instrument in a naturally organic way. An individual approach to each student is crucial. I try to create a climate in which my students can experience continuous musical, intellectual, and emotional growth as well as independent learners.

I am native of Massachusetts, presently living in Baltimore, Maryland. I have performed all over the United States. I hold a bachelors and masters degree from the Boston Conservatory and Shenandoah Conservatory of music respectively . I also studied chamber music at the prestigious Blossom Chamber Music Festival, Kent State University, Kent, OH . My instructors included members of the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Symphony and world-renowned violinists Joseph Gingold and Doris Lederer violist of the Audubon String Quartet to name a few. I have been a featured soloist with the Washington Bach Symphonia, the New England Chamber Players and has given numerous recitals throughout the New England and the Washington, D.C. area. He has been an orchestra member of the York Symphony, New York City Opera Touring Company, Capital Chamber Players, the Maryland Symphony, Millbrook Chamber Orchestra, Arlington Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, York Symphony Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Boston Civic Orchestra and at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, the Apollo Orchestra in Washington DC, just to name a few. In addition to numerous recitals and orchestral accomplishments throughout the East Coast I have extensive experience as a chamber music performer, performing in various String Quartets and Trios Ensembles throughout the East Coast. I am a former faculty member of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C., Prince Williams Youth orchestras and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestras, former faculty of the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music’s Community Arts Program and the conservatory’s Summer Music Camp, former faculty of Trinity University in Washington, D.C. and a former faculty member for the Washington DC Youth Orchestra Program.