Robyn Blair – Horn

Inspired by her hometown of Edinburgh, Robyn Blair loves to immerse herself in sounds and stories through her horn.

She is set to perform Gérard Grisey’s Accords Perdus duo with Christine Chapman from Musikfabrik, and since June 2025, she has been working regularly with Stegreif – The Improvising Symphony Orchestra.

In April, she played with the Arxis Ensemble in A Coruña, Spain. The following month, she joined the Podium Festival in Esslingen for two weeks of contemporary and classical music performances.

From 2025 to 2028, she will be part of the TONALi Bühnenakademie in Hamburg.

In 2023/2024, Robyn was a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, where she also completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Music at the HfMDK. During this time, she took part in several concerts with Ensemble Modern, including a project with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. She also co-founded and managed CRUX, an interdisciplinary event combining dance, motion tracking, improvised music, and electronics. It took place in the height of summer at the Dynochrom bouldering hall in Frankfurt, with the generous support of KunstPakt.

In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence in Munich, where she took part in daily group improvisation alongside performances of John Kenny’s Luna. This was followed in 2023 by an improvised horn concert with Etienne Rolin in Bordeaux, after they had met the year before.

In 2017, she was a founding member of the award-winning ensemble Connaught Brass, with whom she performed over the course of seven years at Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, and on international tours including the Lucerne Festival.

She has been a returning member of the Lucerne Festival Academy and the Forward Festival, and has performed with ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta and the London Chamber Orchestra. In musical theatre, she appeared in My Fair Lady and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tour in the UK.

She has taught at the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London, led workshops for children with special educational needs, and served as a horn coach for the National Youth French Horn Ensemble of Great Britain. This year, she returns to Wigmore Hall for a chamber music premiere with Apartment House, alongside work with multiple contemporary ensembles and orchestras in Germany, Switzerland, and Spain.