Robert Cart

An exhilarating and passionate artist, flutist Robert Cart is an international soloist and chamber musician who has toured throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He has performed under the batons of such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Raymond Leppard, and David Zinman. His appearances include renowned festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravello, Wolf Trap, and Aldeburgh. As a solo recitalist, he has graced the stages of The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center.

An advocate for new music, Dr. Cart has premiered more than 50 solo, chamber, and orchestral works by composers such as Jennifer Higdon, Gary Schocker, Sergi Casanelles, and others. These premieres have taken place at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, The American Cathedral in Paris, and the Philadelphia Ethical Society. He will soon be featured on the Albany and Centaur labels in premiere recordings of works by Eugène Ysaÿe, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Daniel Dorff, and David Loeb.

As a chamber musician, Robert is the founding flutist of two ensembles: the Marrazza-Cart Duo (flute and piano) and Éxi Chéria (flute, viola, and cello trio). He served on the faculty of the Atlantic Music Festival for two years and now teaches at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.

Robert Cart currently serves as Executive Director of the Marcel Moyse Society and as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Washington (DC) Flute Society. He is also a member of the New Music Advisory Committee of the National Flute Association. His scholarly work includes several articles on applying the bel canto singing tradition to flute pedagogy, published in international journals such as Pan Journal of the British Flute Society and The Flutist Quarterly of the National Flute Association.

As a Powell Flutes Artist, Dr. Cart presents clinics, master classes, and serves as an adjudicator worldwide. He holds a Master of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park. His teachers include Francis Fuge, Peter Lloyd, James Pellerite, and Gary Schocker. He performs on a vintage 1938 Verne Q. Powell flute originally made for Joseph LaMonaca, Associate Principal Flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Beyond performance, Robert is active as an academic leader, having served for 15 years as dean of a college of the arts and director of a school of music. He has also held the role of professor for over twenty-five years.