Richard W. Robbins, director of choral activities at Shenandoah University in Winchester, has been named director of the Richmond Symphony Chorus.
The symphony chorusmaster’s position has been vacant since 2021, when Erin R. Freeman left to become director of the City Choir of Washington.
Robbins is a graduate of Florida State University and the University of Houston. Before joining the Shenandoah faculty in 2023, he had served as chorusmaster of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota and assistant choral director of the Houston Symphony. He has published scholarly editions of Italian sacred music from the early baroque period, and has served as adjudicator and director of choral festivals throughout the US.
He will prepare the Richmond Symphony Chorus for performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in the final mainstage concerts of the orchestra’s current season, at 8 p.m. June 1 and 3 p.m. June 2 at the Carpenter Theatre of Dominion Energy Center.
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