Olson, Robin

He is a virtuoso violinist, composer and arranger also known as RRRRRRRobin who initially wanted to play the drums when he as young but due to the fact that his uncle was a violin teacher he learned that instead. He later studied at De Pauw University, Indiana and IndianaUniversity.

In the early years of his professional career as a violinist he performed several jobs until joining the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and working at local film studios on movie soundtracks.

After spending 18 years as the Associate Conductor with the HSO he left his position to pursue his work as a composer. This has led him to compose and perform many orchestral works for movie soundtracks, television, popular music and commercials and hold the position of President of X-1 Records/X-1 Performance, which he has held since 1997.

He suffered a motorcycle accident in 1999 which cast doubts on whether he’d be able to make future performances but by 2001 he was back up and running and in 2001 was the opening act for Olivia Newton-John’s on her world tour. He has also opened his own Studio Q.

Through the course of his career he has become one of Hollywood’s most requested violinists and performed with countless popular artists. Just a select few of them include Christina Aguilera, Black Eyed Peas, Mary J.Blige, Andrea Bocceli, Garth Brooks, Michael Bolton, Michael Buble, Chicago, Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Celine Dion, The Eagles, El DeBarge, Jose Feliciano, Josh Groban, Guns & Roses, Whitney Houston, Carole King, Queen Latifah, Madonna, Bette Midler, The Pussycat Dolls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kenny Rogers, Sting and Caron Wheeler.

As you will understand, his recording output is massive but a few of his CDs include his own Passion with live DVD and A Violin Christmas released in 2008 as well as When My Heart Finds Christmas by Harry Connick Jr., Movie Album: As Time Goes By by Neil Diamond, Peachtree Road by Elton John, Timeless: Live in Concert by Barbra Streisand and October Road by James Taylor and Real Thing by Vanessa Williams.

He has also been a performer on movie soundtracks that run to probably around 1,500 to date, maybe more. They include Aladdin, Along Came a Spider, American Beauty, all the Austin Powers movies, four of the Batman movies, Bulletproof Monk, both Charlie’s Angels movies, Conspiracy Theory, Dreamcatcher, Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Legally Blonde, The Lion King, Men in Black 1 and 2, all three Mission Impossible movies, Mulan, Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 2, Rush Hour, Salton Sea, Schindler’s List, Scorpion King, all the Spidermanmovies, Star Trek: Nemesis, Superman, Titanic, Toy Story 1 and 2 and too many more to mention.

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