Robin Davis (MA Cantab, ARAM) is first Kapellmeister at the Salzburger Landestheater. Previous engagements include first Kapellmeister (Theater Lüneburg), Kapellmeister and Assistant to the Generalmusikdirektor (Oldenburgisches Staatstheater) and solo repetiteur (Theater Dortmund). From 2012-5 he was conductor of the Oldenburg Youth Orchestra.

As a pianist, Robin has performed internationally in countries such as Korea, Bermuda and Taiwan, as well as at home in England in the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, Fairfield Hall, Kings Place, St. John’s Smith Square and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. He played Mozart’s K488 piano concerto with the Dortmund Philharmonic in their Konzerthaus in 2011 and often gives song recitals together with his wife, soprano Angela Davis.

He received a first class Mathematics degree from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was also organ scholar, and then went on to study piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, subsequently graduating with a DipRAM and staying a further year as Meaker Fellow. During his time there, he won the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier accompanists award and, together with Angela Davis, first prize in the 2007 Euriade Song-Duo competition in Holland. He studied conducting with Ekhart Wycik and was made an Associate of the RAM in 2014.