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Twyla Robinson, soprano, serves at Texas Christian University as an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and combines her teaching with an ongoing performing career. Recent seasons have seen her as the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Cincinnati Opera, Sieglinde in Act I of Die Walküre with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the soprano soloist in Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, Sorrowful Songs with the Chicago Sinfonietta, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 with I Musici de Montreal Chamber Orchestra, and Claude Vivier’s Lonely Child with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. She also created the role of Becky Felderman in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star, with the Cincinnati Opera.

Orchestral highlights include Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with l’Opéra National de Paris, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” with Ji?í B?lohlávek at the opening night of the BBC Proms. She has performed Mahler’s 8th Symphony with orchestras such as the Houston Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Münchner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Essen Philharmonie, and recorded it with the Berlin Staatskapelle for Deutsche Grammophon, Pierre Boulez conducting. Other recordings include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink on the LSO Live label, Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie with the Houston Symphony and Hans Graf with Naxos, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano with Telarc, Schubert’s Fierrabras with Franz Welser-Mo?st on DVD with EMI, and Strauss’ Elektra and Daphne with Semyon Bychkov and the West German Radio Orchestra on the Decca label.