Robert deMaine
| Robert deMaine | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
6 December 1969 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Genres | Classical |
| Instruments | Cello |
| Labels | Naxos, Chandos, Onyx, Deutsche Grammophon, Capstone, CRI, CBC, DSO, Grotto, Delos, Leaf Music |
| Associated acts | Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hahn-Zhu-deMaine Trio |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
| Antonio Stradivari, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Domenico Busan | |
Robert deMaine (born December 6, 1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American virtuoso cellist. He is known as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral principal, recording artist, composer/arranger, artistic director, and teacher.
Robert deMaine is a third-generation American who was born in Oklahoma City as "Robert J. Maine, Jr.," into a family in which his father, Robert, a native of upper St. Lawrence County, New York State, near the border with rural Ontario and Québec, Canada (whence his parents originally hailed - in the largely Francophone villages of Williamstown, Ontario and Beauharnois, Québec, now both considered part of metropolitan Montréal); was a Captain in the U.S. Army with a musical background, and of French Canadian ancestry, the original form of the family surname being "DuMaine" or "DeMaine" and many generations before, dating back to the 17th century in Brittany and Normandy in Northwest France where the family were situated for many centuries. His mother, Anna, a gifted cellist also with a strong musical background stretching back several generations, was born in Chicago of German-speaking Polish immigrants from Gdańsk, West Prussia and Pińsk, East Prussia, her father and mother each being descended of a grandparent from France (Alsace-Lorraine), as well. deMaine returned from his shortened surname after his father's death in 1988, legally changing it back to the more historically original and accurate version in 1995.
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