Bio

Max Robbins is a professional trumpet player, pianist, composer, theatre teaching artist, and music educator based in Rochester, NY. He grew up immersed in both classical and jazz traditions, earning an honors diploma from the Eastman Community Music School while studying with Eastman School of Music faculty and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra musicians. As a student, Max served as principal trumpet of the NYSSMA All-State and NAfME All-National Orchestras and played in the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artist Orchestra.

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An active member of the Rochester music scene, Max frequently performs with Eastman School of Music faculty and local musicians. His performance credits include the Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Lilypad Inman in Cambridge, Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, and the pit orchestra at Rochester’s Geva Theatre Center.

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Max teaches trumpet privately and is an instructor for the Eastman Community Music School’s New Horizons jazz band. He has also worked as a teaching artist at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, and at OFC Creations Theatre in Rochester, NY. He holds a degree in Psychology and Trumpet Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s in Human Development and Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.