ROBBIE LINK is a performer and teacher on the double bass, cello, electric bass, viola da gamba, and violone. Link performs and records with many period instrument, chamber, jazz, and folk music ensembles and enjoys performing everything from Baroque to Bluegrass. He maintains a private teaching studio near Chapel Hill, NC. Link studied jazz with David Baker and classical bass with Murray Grodner in the School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and also studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has performed with The Bach Sinfonia, North Carolina Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Ensemble Vermillian, and Ensemble Courant as well as with many jazz notables including Maxine Sullivan, Tal Farlow, Mose Alison, Mark Murphy, Carol Sloane, Margaret Whiting, Bobby Enriquez, Joanne Brackeen, and Scott Hamilton.
Primary Instrument
Bass, acoustic
Location
Raleigh
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Credentials/Background
Teaching all levels beginners to advanced. All styles - classical, jazz, folk. Music theory
and improvisation.
Began teaching in 1976. In addition to private teaching has also taught at the
following institutions:
Wilmington Music School - Wilmington, DE
East Carolina University - Greenville, NC
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC
Duke University - Durham, NC