Robin Rupe is a multi-cam / I-mag Director
specializing in live music, primarily, classical music, where she works closely
with a score and score reader. Robin is also the owner of a new, video production company called Volti Subito Productions which is focused, primarily, on providing video services
for orchestras, chamber groups, and soloists interested in live production, live to tape
(DVD) and / or for promotional purposes.
Robin recently left her position of eighteen years
as Production / Operations Manager and ten years as Video Director, of the New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra to start her own company, with the hope of helping other orchestras and chamber groups compete with
popular entertainment in the 21st century. While she's not sold on live "in-house" reinforcement for formal Classics-style concerts, she is believes that every Youth,
Pops, Specials and Casual Classics should be implementing live video.
Robin has directed live video for conductors such
as Michael Krajewski, Matt Catingub, and Jeff Tyzik. and guest artists, Yo-Yo Ma, Eileen Ivers, Peter Nero, Bravo
Broadway, Garrison Keillor and more. Under Guillermo Figueroa and David Lockington, Robin has designed lighting and video environments for
pieces such as Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Holst's Planets, Michael Daugherty's Fire and
Blood, Gorecky's Third, Stravinsky's Right of Spring and Respighi's Pines of
Rome.
Under her local company, Urbenopri Productions,
Robin has directed for the Santa Fe Symphony under Steven Smith, and The Vintage Albuquerque Wine Auction. She has also designed
with video imagery and lighting for the NMSO, The Chatter Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
and the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet.
R E C E N T P R O J E C T S:
Sybarite 5 - (Internet and
You Tube)in progress.
Hilary Hahn Interviews Ralph Berkowitz For the Curtis Institute of Music (DVD or Webcast) in progress.
Chicago Theological
Seminary
and Rachel Barton-Pine in Celebrate The Spirit, an Interfaith
Dialogue In Word & Music.
Co-Director / Co-Editor for a pilot television show of The Root 66 Live! featuring musicians and
songwriters along Route 66