Robert Vernon is a classical

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 violist

Violist

-Notable violists:A* Julia Rebekka Adler * Sir Hugh Allen , conductor* Kris Allen * Johann Andreas Amon * Paul Angerer , composer* Steven Ansell * Atar Arad * Cecil Aronowitz...

 and teacher

Teacher

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Robert Vernon has served as the Principal Violist of the Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

 since 1976. Vernon occupies the endowed Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair, and along with Franklin Cohen has served longer in a Principal position than any other current member of the Orchestra. Vernon also heads the Viola Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music

Cleveland Institute of Music

The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Adrian Daly, dean....

, and is a faculty member at the renowned Juilliard School of Music. Vernon also serves on the Faculty at Kent/Blossom, the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland, the New World Symphony Orchestra

New World Symphony Orchestra

The New World Symphony is the United States' only full-time orchestral academy preparing musicians for careers in symphony orchestras and ensembles...

, and the Encore School for Strings

Encore School for Strings

Encore School for Strings, founded in 1985 by David and Linda Cerone, was the summer session of the Cleveland Institute of Music. It was located in Hudson, Ohio at the Western Reserve Academy. Encore had no minimum age requirement, though a taped audition was used to screen applicants. The music...

. He also frequents several chamber music festivals including the Sarasota Music Festival

Sarasota Music Festival

Sarasota Music Festival is an American classical music festival held annually during the month of June in Sarasota, Florida under the sponsorship of the Sarasota Orchestra. The Festival was founded in 1965 by conductor Paul Wolfe who remained director of the festival through the summer of 2006....

 (Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota, Florida

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), and the Nevada Chamber Music Festival (Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada

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Life

Born in Toronto, Ontario Robert Vernon moved to the United States as a child and grew up in the Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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 area. Vernon attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York City

New York City

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 and graduated with honors. Vernon played in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra before being named Principal Violist of the Cleveland Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall...

. Vernon currently resides in Solon, Ohio

Solon, Ohio

Solon is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is an affluent suburb of Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 14th largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,348...

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Discography

• Orchestral Excerpts for Viola
• Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Flute & Harp Concerto; Sinfonia concertante w/ Robert Vernon & Daniel Majeski
• Paul Schoenfield
  Paul Schoenfield
  Paul Schoenfield is a classical composer. He is known for combining popular, folk, and classical music forms.Schoenfield was born in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He began to take piano lessons at the age of six, and wrote his first composition a year later. Among his teachers were Julius Chajes,...
  
  : Concerto for Viola & Orchestra w/ Robert Vernon; Four Motets; The Merchant and the Pauper (Excerpts from Act 2)
• Bartok/Martinu/Janáček: Orchestral Works w/ Robert Vernon et al.
• Berlioz's Harold in Italy w/Lorin Maazel & Robert Vernon
• Strauss's Don Quixote w/ Lynn Harrell, Robert Vernon & Vladimir Ashkenazy

External links

• The Cleveland Orchestra
• The Cleveland Institute of Music
• Juilliard School of Music