UF Professor and Head of Music Education, Russell Robinson, will conduct a world premiere for choir and orchestra of his new work, De Profundis, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on Sunday, March 4th. De Profundis will be published by Lawson-Gould Publishers, a long-standing publisher of concert choral literature founded by Robert Shaw (Lawson was the late conductor’s middle name) and Walter Gould.  The performers will include 200 singers selected from across the US, professional orchestra and soloists.  Robinson will open the concert with Franz Schubert’s Mass in G and conclude with his new work.  He was invited to conduct this concert and write the new work by Producer, Norman Dunfee, President and Executive Director of Mid-America Productions in New York City who also invited Robinson to conduct Carnegie Hall in 2006, where he conducted the world premiere of UF Professor of Music Paul Basler’s Missa Brevis.

For more information on the concert:  http://www.midamerica-music.com/carnegie-hall-concerts/March-2012