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Conductors - Robert Tuohy

Robert Tuohy studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included Colin Metters, George Hurst, and Sir Colin Davis. He graduated with distinction, having been awarded the prestigious DipRAM, the Ernest Read Conducting Prize, the Fred Southall Memorial Award and the Sir Henry Wood Scolarship. Last year, he conducted Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Seven In Nomine and Telos 135 as a part of the RAM/South Bank festival Max: A Musician of Our Time. He also served as assistant conductor to Martin André for Royal Academy Opera's production of Cendrillon. In his first year at RAM, he conducted three world premieres by RAM composition students as a part of the festival Omaggio: A Celebration of Luciano Berio.

Robert is Associate Conductor of the Manfred Ensemble, with whom he has performed Schumann's Symphony in D minor (1841 version) and Symphony No 3 in Eb major. These performances constituted part of a cycle of Schumann's orchestral works undertaken with the Manfred Ensemble's Music Director, Dominic Grier.

Prior to coming to London, Robert was awarded a Master's Degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where his teachers included Carl Topilow and Louis Lane. At CIM, he conducted performances of a wide range of music, including Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Schumann's Symphony in D minor (1841 version), Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration), and Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat. In 2002-3, Robert served as Assistant Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado and as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, with whom he made his Severance Hall debut in April 2003.

In June 2004 and 2005, Robert participated in the Orkney Conducting Course, where he studied with Martyn Brabbins, Sian Edwards, and Charles Peebles, and conducted repertoire sessions with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble, and the Paragon Ensemble. In March 2003, he was invited to participate in a masterclass with Michael Tilson Thomas on Copland's Appalachian Spring as part of a New World Symphony symposium on Internet2 technology.