Robert deMaine (b. 6 December 1969, Oklahoma City) is an American virtuoso cellist.
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Robert deMaine was born into a musical family of French (Franco-Belgian) and Polish ancestry.[1] His cello teachers have included his mother, Anna, and sister, Mary, and cellists Jane Smith, Kari Padgett Caldwell, Leonard Rose, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, and Aldo Parisot.
He made his orchestral début at age 10 with the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra[2] (now the Oklahoma City Philharmonic), playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33.
DeMaine is a fellowship alumnus of Yale University and the Eastman School of Music, and has also studied at the Meadowmount School of Music,[3] Marlboro Music School and Festival, and the Juilliard School.
In 1990, deMaine was named the winner of the fifth Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings in San Francisco,[4] and was the first cellist in the competition's history to win the Grand Prize.
In addition to his activities as a concerto soloist, solo recitalist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher, deMaine has been the Principal Cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, since 2002.[5]
DeMaine has written music for the cello which he regularly performs, including 2 concerti, and 12 Études-Caprices.[6]