Robin Sharp

Known for her deeply expressive playing, violinist Robin Sharp is a solo performer, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. Ms. Sharp is on the music faculty at Stanford University as a Full-time Senior Lecturer in Violin and Chamber Music and maintains a private teaching studio. For more than twenty years, she performs as Concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and is frequently featured as soloist. Ms. Sharp’s chamber music engagements include ongoing collaborations with the Saint Michael Trio and the Sharp Quartet. Ms. Sharp is currently an active substitute violinist with the San Francisco Symphony.

Ms. Sharp has appeared in recital at many prestigious venues as a musical ambassador representing Carnegie Hall, including a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the National Music Hall in Taipei. She notably appeared in recital at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco where she performed a recital on Jascha Heifetz's 1740 “David” Guarnerius Del Gesu violin. Ms. Sharp was also a Laureate prize winner of the 1994 Indianapolis Violin Competition and was featured in a documentary about the competition. 

In 2010, a violin concerto called “Haili Lirico” was written for Ms. Sharp by composer Gabriela Lena Frank, in remembrance of her father, Terry Sharp. In January 1998 Ms. Sharp represented Carnegie Hall in their Rising Stars Series, when she and her then duo partner Jeremy Denk played a recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall following a European tour as musical ambassadors representing Carnegie Hall. The duo also performed on Carnegie Hall's main stage under the guidance of Isaac Stern.

Ms. Sharp participated in music festivals worldwide, including California Summer Music, the Musikalischer Sommer Festival in Germany, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Sandor Vegh masterclasses at Prussia Cove, and the Isaac Stern Seminar in New York. She has formerly served as first violinist of the Ives String Quartet.Currently teaching as Senior Lecturer in Violin at Stanford University, Ms. Sharp is a devoted teacher of all ages of violinists.  She has previously taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in both the Preparatory and Collegiate divisions, at Santa Clara University, and at Sacramento State University of California.