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Robert Mealy

Robert Mealy is an American baroque violinist and music educator, a director of Historical Performance and Baroque Chamber Music departments at [l=Juilliard School] (since 2012), and a founder of Harvard Baroque Orchestra and [a=Yale Collegium Players]. Robert began exploring early music in high school and deepened his interest with the Collegium Musicum of the [l=University of California, Berkeley] and the baroque orchestra at the [l=Royal College of Music, London]. While still a Harvard College undergraduate, Mealy was invited to join the Canadian [a=Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra]. Since then, Robert Mealy has toured and recorded with numerous early music ensembles, including [a=Sequentia (2)], [a=Ensemble P.A.N.], [a=The Newberry Consort], [a=The Folger Consort], [a=Les Arts Florissants], [a=The Handel & Haydn Society Of Boston], [a=New York Ensemble For Early Music], [a=Clarion Music Society], and [a=Artek - Early Music Ensemble In Nyc]. He appeared on [l=Late Show with David Letterman] accompanying [a=Renée Fleming]. In 2004, Mealy became a concertmaster of the [a=Boston Early Music Festival] orchestra, participating in performances and Grammy-nominated recordings of [a=Jean-Baptiste Lully]'s [i]Psyché[/i] and [i]Thésée[/i], Conradi's [i]Ariadne[/i], and the modern premiere of [a=Johann Mattheson]'s [i]Boris Godunov[/i]. He founded the instrumental ensemble [a=Yale Collegium Players] and collaborated with [a=Simon Carrington] and [a=Yale Schola Cantorum] to record [a=Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber], [a=Antonio Bertali], Bach's [i]Johannes Passion[/i] and [i]Magnificats[/i]. Robert Mealy also served as an instrumental soloist and leader of [a=Boston Camerata] for over a decade. Mealy held a joint position at [l=Yale University School Of Music] and Yale's Department of Music where he directed Yale Collegium Musicum and taught rhetoric and historically-informed performance. Robert was appointed an Adjunct Professor at [l=Yale University] in 2008. He also lectured and gave historical performance workshops at [l=Columbia University], [l=Brown University], [l=Rutgers University], [l=The Oberlin Conservatory Of Music], U.C. Berkeley, and other prominent US institutions. In 2009, Robert Mealy joined the new Historical Performance faculty at Juilliard.

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