Robert Bradshaw, Cello
Dr. Rob Bradshaw has performed throughout the United States as chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral musician in venues ranging from New York’s Lincoln Center to the Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rob has collaborated with artists Greg Sauer, George Crumb, the Grammy-winning Pacifica String Quartet, Laura Bossert, and Wayman Chin. He has premiered new works by Robert Baksa, Anne-Vale Brittan, Rob Deemer, Shawn Garmon, and Marvin Lamb, and gave a premiere performance of Brian John’s A Glimpse of the Philippines at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
Rob serves as principal cellist of the Fort Smith Symphony, and has given performances with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Academia Filarmonica, and Collegium Musicum at the University of Oklahoma. He has been a guest teaching fellow and artist at the Stamford International Chamber Music Festival in Stamford, England. In addition to performing, Dr. Bradshaw maintains an active cello studio and researches lesser-known cello works by American composers, specifically the works of David Stanley Smith.
Recently, Rob arranged and premiered a setting of movements of Edward MacDowell’s Woodland Sketches for cello and piano, completing the arrangement begun by Julius Klengel. He is currently preparing a recording of cello works by David Stanley Smith. He previously served as the co-artistic director of Scissortail Productions, Inc., an OKC metro area Chamber Music series, specializing in vocal and instrumental chamber music featuring young, energetic professional musicians from around Oklahoma. He serves on the faculties of Mid-America Christian University and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Oklahoma. He regularly performs in churches, schools, and libraries around the state.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree with distinction from the University of Oklahoma, a Master’s Degree with distinction from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Oklahoma. His principal teachers include Jonathan Ruck, Greg Sauer, Terry King, Wayman Chin, and Roger Tapping. He has performed in master classes for Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz, Colin Carr, Matt Haimovitz, Emilio Colón, and the Pacifica Quartet. He is a member of the American String Teachers Association and the College Music Society.
