Violinist Robert Anemone has been praised for his “complete command, beautiful sound, and firmness without anxiety” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). First prize winner of the 2015 Hudson Valley Philharmonic Strings Competition, the 2013-14 New England Conservatory Violin Competition, and the 2007 Concord Young Artist Competition, he has appeared as a soloist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Concord Symphony, University of Evansville Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Philharmonia, and others, as well as in recital in the United States and Europe. Robert is currently a member of the second violin section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

From 2018 to 2020, Robert was a first violinist with the North Carolina Symphony. While in Raleigh, he was active in the local chamber music community, performing on the North Carolina Symphony’s “Soundbites” concerts and Manning Concert Series, as well as with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the Bennett Quartet. From 2015 to 2018, Robert was concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic and part of the Eykamp String Quartet, whose members served as the faculty artists-in-residence at the University of Evansville and performed and taught regularly throughout Southern Indiana. During his time in Evansville, he helped administrate the chamber music course at the University of Evansville, and also helped found “Coffee and Classics,” a chamber music series at a local music venue and coffee house. In 2016, the Eykamp Quartet was presented with the Mayor’s Ensemble Award by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana.

As a chamber musician, Robert’s performances are regularly presented on NPR’s Performance Today and WABE’s program “Atlanta Music Scene.” Over his career, he has collaborated with such artists as the Borromeo String Quartet, James Buswell, Stephen Drury, Grigory Kalinovsky, Jeffrey Irvine, and George Taylor, and during the summer of 2019, he took on the role of acting second violinist of the Jasper String Quartet as they toured across the United States. From 2015 to 2017 Robert was a member of the Larchmere String Quartet, which gave recitals and masterclasses across the United States and Canada in such venues as the Chicago Cultural Center, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the University of Louisville’s Comstock Hall. In 2013 he was a recipient of NEC’s “Quartetutopia” fellowship as a member of the Petrucci String Quartet and used the attached grant to research and lecture on the original manuscripts of Beethoven’s string quartets. An avid proponent of new music, he plays regularly with Atlanta’s premiere new music group, ensemble vim, and he has worked closely with composers Roger Reynolds, Christian Wolff, John Heiss, Alice Hong, Stratis Minakakis, Menachem Wiesenberg, Katherine Balch, David Hertzberg, Ralph Farris, Zack Browning, and others in premieres and performances of their works, many of which were written specifically for him.

From 2014-2019, Robert held the position of principal second violin of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, where he also served numerous times as acting concertmaster. Other orchestral engagements include appearances as guest concertmaster with Indianapolis Opera and Orchestra Kentucky, as well as performances and recording projects with a variety of larger ensembles including the Boston-based chamber orchestras A Far Cry and Discovery Ensemble, Odyssey Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and the Callithumpian Consort.

A graduate of James Buswell’s studio at the New England Conservatory (BM 2012, MM 2014), Robert was a recipient of the Dorothy J. Bales ’41 Violin Scholarship and was awarded the 2014 Gunther Schuller medal for outstanding graduate study. He received additional training at the Taos School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Heifetz Institute, where he worked with the Borromeo, Brentano, Miro, and Shanghai String Quartets, as well as Michael Tree, Robert McDonald, Thomas Sauer, Sylvia Rosenberg, Virginia Weckstrom, and Grigory Kalinovsky, among others. Passionate about passing on the knowledge he has gained from these mentors, he is a committed teacher, maintaining an active private studio and working closely with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program and Youth Orchestra. He has previously been on the faculty of the University of Evansville, the St. Paul Chamber Music Institute, the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop, the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, the Lamar Stringfield Music Camp, the North Bennet Street School, and others, and he has presented masterclasses at UNC Chapel Hill, the St. Paul Conservatory of Music, Otterbein University, and the University of Evansville. In addition to music, Robert is an enthusiastic amateur woodworker and enjoys good coffee, bad movies, and the great outdoors.