Canadian born violinist, Robin Lynn Braun de Sierra began her musical studies at age five at the Suzuki String School with Martha Kaliniak where she showed great promise and talent.
As a winner of the 1994 Ontario Youth Competition, she made her debut at the Centre In the Square Raffi Armenian Theatre. In 1998 she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Ms. Braun de Sierra has appeared as soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Mississauga Symphony, Sarnia Symphony and has given recitals throughout Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Europe and Asia.
Ms. Braun de Sierra has been invited to several prestigious summer music festivals. Recently she participated in 2008 with the American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria), 2007 with The National Academy Orchestra (Ontario), 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 (Waterloo, Ontario).
Ms. Braun de Sierra has given master classes at the Yewon Arts School in Seoul, Korea the Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul Instituto des Artes in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of British Columbia. She has performed in Master Classes around the world for violin protégés as, Mauricio Fuks, Jamie Laredo, Martin Chalifour and Aaron Rosan.
Ms. Braun de Sierra has completed with Honors a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University where she was a student of Jerzy Kaplanek and a Masters of Music degree at Indiana University where she was a student of Mimi Zweig. Ms.Braun de Sierra 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.
During the summer of 2006 Ms. Braun de Sierra was invited to play First Violin with the Canadian Opera Company for the complete Wagner Ring Cycle. During the summer of 2007 Ms. Braun de Sierra was given the position of Principal Second Violin for the National Academy Orchestra. That summer collaborated with well known musicians as Marc-Andre Savoie, Mark Skazinetsky, Agnes Grossman and Richard Roberts.
Immediately following her studies in the States, Ms. Braun de Sierra became a member of the KW Symphony for the 03/04 Season. Ms. Braun de Sierra is thrilled to join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra First violin section for her 6th season. Ms. Braun enjoys teaching young talented kids the joys of learning Violin competitively or just for pure fun. Other interests include running, climbing mountains all with her Semi-Human Boston Terrior puppy "Truck" and her Husband and well known Artist Mauricio Sierra.