$12 GA / $8 students
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger was a top notch classical oboist before becoming a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, media artist, creative technologist and educator. She is a pioneer in oboe performance, interactive installation, responsive media performance and creative technology and one of the few living artists to integrate, solder and code all of these elements herself.
She is a proud member of the LGBTQ community and a powerful environmental and conservation activist and is the Founder of the now famous Chicago Bird Collision Monitors program, one of the largest and most effective hands on conservation efforts in the world.
Robbie Lynn has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, toured with the Chicago and Atlanta Symphony, performed at Marlboro Music Festival, Blossom Festival, The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Chicago World Music Festival and South by Southwest. She has taught at several universities including Northern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, Fisk University and Watkins School of Art. She studied oboe with John Mack, Elaine Douvas and Grover Schiltz and graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
She was as an obbligato soloist with the Chicago Symphony and played duets with Evan Parker at two of Chicago’s FMP Festivals of Improvised Music. Her list of credits include playing English Horn on the Chicago Symphony’s triple Grammy Winner “The Wooden Prince” with Pierre Boulez, touring as an Oboe d’ Amore soloist with Robert Shaw’s Choral Institute in France, a national tour with the Warner Brother’s Orchestra and presentations and workshops at a number of conferences including her “Oboe and Xbox” presentation at Chamber Music America’s conference in New York. She has performed with Pauline Oliveros, led the Trio project with the late Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Joseph Jarman (which received a 4 Star review in Downbeat,) has played with Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang, Jaap Blonk, Tatsu Aoki and sat in with Cassadra Wilson’s band at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall on her Miles Davis Tour.
Robbie Lynn has become a true ambassador for the oboe, forging distinctive paths in free jazz, rock and contemporary classical music as well as in cutting edge multimedia performance and installation. Her interactive installation “Blue-Yellow-Red” used the surround sound of 6 English Horns along with Chinese oboe and soprano sax.
Her irresistibly playful and immersive installations have won a “Best of Year” write up from Burnaway Magazine, glowing reviews in Make Magazine and funding from Nashville’s Metro Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has exhibited at the Frist Art Museum, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, ISEA Chicago and Thomas Blackman Gallery. Her ongoing VR collaboration with Theresa Loong was part of New York City’s 16 Days to End Gender Violence 2022 and won a Diverse Gamers Grant from the International Game Developers Fund. She also just completed a multiple year collaboration with Metro Arts on a new interactive music and light installation at Nashville’s Mill Ridge Park by Daily Tous Les Jours opened in August 2023.
She is a stellar musician, composer, media and installation artist and educator and is available as a presenter, visiting artist, educator and performer. Her masterclass specialties include oboe, beginning coding, beginning electronics, micro-controllers and improvisation.