
Mark Robertson, concertmaster and co-Music Director, is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both parents were musical (piano and voice) which led to Mark to picking up the violin at the early age of five. After graduating from Boston University and The Juilliard School, Robertson moved to Los Angeles in 1995, shortly after giving his New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. His violin teachers have included Dorothy DeLay, Kurt Sassmansshaus, Piotr Milewski, and Martin Chalifour. A ten-year alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival, Robertson served as concertmaster of both the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Concert Orchestra under such conductors as James Conlon, Junichi Hirokami, and Murry Sidlin.
While in Los Angeles, Robertson has been guest concertmaster for the Riverside County Philharmonic, the New West Symphony, the Pasadena Pops, and the Culver City Chamber Orchestra. He has also recorded for over 600 movie and television soundtracks, most prominently as concertmaster and solo violinist for the award-winning shows House of Cards and Penny Dreadful. He also served as concertmaster for the recent and upcoming films One Night in Miami, White Men Can’t Jump, Rather, Big City Greens: Spacecation, The Boogeyman, Strays, The Hunt, Shaft, The Biggest Little Farm, The House with A Clock in Its Walls, Triple Frontier, The Nun, and Under the Silver Lake, in addition to previous films including Baywatch, Pitch Perfect 3, Contagion, Much Ado About Nothing, Ride Along 1 and 2, Premium Rush, Blackfish, Merchants of Doubt, and Horrible Bosses 1 and 2. He has conducted ensembles at the Aspen Music Festival, the Wilshire-Ebell Theater, the Montalban Theatre, the Coachella Music Festival (Wu-Tang Clan), and for Access Hollywood (Carly Rae Jepsen). On the pop music side of things, Mark has worked with Logic, A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera, Billy Childs, Daughtry, OneRepublic, the Fray, and Kelly Clarkson, among others. He recently served as concertmaster for Il Volo’s performance at the Dolby Theatre (Hollywood), and for Idina Menzel’s performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
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