As one of the most outstanding musicians of our time, the cellist Sharon Robinson is a winner of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, the Piatigorsky Memorial Award, and a GRAMMY nominee.

Her guest appearances with orchestra include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies, and in Europe, the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, the English, Scottish and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestras.

She has recorded more than 50 albums, as a member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, and in collaboration with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, and her husband, violinist Jaime Laredo, among others. While she continues to champion numerous works by contemporary composers, Richard Danielpour, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Arvo Pärt, Leon Kirchner, and Robert Starer, she is also on the esteemed cello faculty of Indiana University School of Music.