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Roberts Performs and Teaches in the U.S., France, the Netherlands and Spain for Sabbatical

Chair of Instrumental Division, Coordinator for Conservatory in the Community and Professor of Saxophone Timothy Roberts, D.M.A., enjoyed an intense spring semester of performing and teaching while on sabbatical from the conservatory. Highlights include five weeks of performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, including Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro” (Monday, Feb. 7, through Wednesday, Feb. 9), Richard Strauss’s “Symphonia Domestica, op. 53” (Sunday, April 17, Wednesday, April 20); Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” (Friday, April 22, through Sunday, April 24); Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” (Thursday, May 19, through Sunday, May 22) and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” (Friday, May 27, through Sunday, May 29).

Additional sabbatical highlights included solo recitals and masterclasses at some of the leading music schools in the world, including the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (Monday, March 28); Conservatoire Strasbourg in France (Tuesday, March 29, through Friday, April 1), HKU Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands (Monday, April 4), Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo” de Sevilla in Spain (Friday, April 8) and the University of Miami Frost School of Music (Friday, April 15).

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