Robert deMaine

Robert deMaine has served as Artistic Director of Metro Detroit’s “Classical Brunch” from 2010-2015, and Classical American Homes Chamber Music/Music at Millford (2014-present). He maintains an active solo, chamber music, and recording career around his duties at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In 2012, Robert deMaine was named Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. DeMaine was Principal Cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2002-2012, hired by then-Music Director, Neeme Järvi. While in his early twenties studying at Yale University, deMaine served as Principal Cellist of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

Robert deMaine has taught music privately from the age of 14. At 19, deMaine first became an Assistant to Steven Doane, and later Paul Katz, at the Eastman School of Music. He went on to teach at the Hartford Conservatory from 1993-2002, Wayne State University Department of Music in Detroit (2002-2009), University of Michigan (2003-2004), and The Colburn School in Los Angeles (2015-present). DeMaine has also served on the faculties of the National Orchestral Institute (2004-present), Music Academy of the West (2014-17), Montecito Music Festival (2014-present), Audition/Perform in Chichester, United Kingdom (2018-present), and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy (2019-present). He has presented masterclasses at many important music schools worldwide, and was featured artist-faculty at both the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles (2016), and the Lev Aronson Cello Festival in Dallas (2017).

After graduating high school in 1988, DeMaine received full scholarships to study at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Additional studies were undertaken at the Aspen Music Festival, Marlboro Music School and Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Music Academy of the West, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California, and briefly at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. His many teachers and mentors included Steven Doane, Claude Frank, Felix Galimir, Luis Garcia-Renart, Bernard Greenhouse, Lynn Harrell, Richard Kapuscinski, Stephen Kates, Paul Katz, Ronald Leonard, Jerome Lowenthal, Aldo Parisot, Boris Pergamenschikow, Joseph Silverstein, David Soyer, János Starker, and Arthur Winograd.

Robert deMaine (born December 6, 1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American virtuoso cellist, best known as Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Robert deMaine plays on instruments made by Antonio Stradivari, the 'General Kyd, ex-Leo Stern,' Cremona, dating from 1684 (in the collection of the Los Angeles Philharmonic), and Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, 1841. His bow collection includes examples by François Tourte, Dominique Peccatte, Nicolaus Kittel, and Étienne Pajeot.