Kim Robson, MM

Assistant Professor of Music
Director of musical activities
MM, Voice Performance, New England Conservatory, 1989

Phone: 215-596-7542
Email: k.robson@usp.edu

As director of musical activities at USP, Kim Robson oversees and instructs all on-campus music classes and ensembles. She is the founder of the current music program, which includes up to nine different chamber ensembles and two lecture-format classes each semester. Additionally Ms. Robson is the music minor advisor, a coordinator with the UArts/USP course exchange program, and maintains classroom space, equipment, and resources pertinent to musical activity.

Performing Areas
Theater, Musical Theater, Opera, Choral, Church Music, Instrumental, Film

Performing Summary
Kim Robson, flutist, actress and singer, performs regularly throughout the year. She has appeared as Sarah in the world premier of Out of the Rain, performed in conjunction with King of the Clouds--two one-act operas at OperaDelaware, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Lucy in The Telephone, Amelia in Amelia Goes to the Ball, and the Countess in Marriage of Figaro. On the musical theater stage, she has appeared as Sarah in Guys and Dolls, Yonah in Children of Eden, Marian in The Music Man, Fiona in Brigadoon, the Singer in Belles of Dublin, and has toured nationally with American Family Theatre's Beauty and the Beast.  She was a regular cable TV spokesperson in North Carolina and has acted in several independent film projects in the Philadelphia area. Other local companies Ms. Robson has enjoyed working with include ConcertOpera of Philadelphia, Montgomery Theater Project, City Theater, Society Hill Playhouse, Brick Playhouse, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, and Opera Festival of New Jersey. She is a soloist and section leader at St. David's Radnor.

Research Interests
Sacred choral performance practice in colonial America, pedagogy in the voice studio, the effect of sinus surgery on the singing voice