Canadian Born violinist, Robin Braun began her musical studies at age five at the Suzuki String School where she showed great promise and talent.
She continued her success by winning several competitions and positions of great honour.
As a winner of the 1994 Youth Competition, Robin Braun made her debut at the Centre In The Square.
In 1998 she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Robin Braun has appeared with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, London Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony and has given recitals throughout Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico, and Europe.
Ms. Braun has been invited to several prestigious summer music festivals. Recently she participated at The Festival of the Sound (Ontario), International Music Festival (Mexico), 2002 and 2003 European Music Festival (Hamburg, Germany), Orvieto Musica Chamber Festival (Orvieto, Italy) and QuartetFest.
She has given master classes at the Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul Instituto des Artes in Porto Alegre, Brazil and at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She has performed in Master Classes around the world for violin protégés as, Mauricio Fuks, Jamie Laredo, Martin Chalifour and Aaron Rosan.
Robin has completed with Honours a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Masters of Music degree at Indiana University where she was a student of Mimi Zweig.
Ms. Braun held a position of Assistant Instructor of Violin at Indiana University for two years and taught for the Summer String Academy Program at Indiana University.
This past summer Robin played First Violin with the Canadian Opera Company for the complete Wagner Ring Cycle. This was the first opera to open up the brand new Opera house in downtown Toronto, home of the Canadian Opera Company.
Immediately following her studies in the States, Ms. Braun became a member of the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony for the 2003/2004 season. Robin is thrilled to join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra First violin section for her third season.