Williams, Robin
Education
B.M. - University of Missouri-Kansas City
M.M., D.M.A. - Eastman School of Music in Rochester
About
Kansas City native, Robin Holtz Williams is former Chair of the Department of Music at The University of New Orleans and past member of the Board of Directors of the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans (MASNO). Dr. Williams earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and then studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she earned Master and Doctorate degrees in Piano Performance. Since joining the UNO faculty in 1990, she has been active as a performer and adjudicator.
Dr. Williams’ creative focus in recent years has been on her CD series, A Piano in the House of which there are three with these subtitles, Music for Hearth and Home, Signs of Spring, and On a Winter’s Eve. The CDs feature famous pieces by well-known composers, and also works by composers whose names are now forgotten and whose compositions sometimes are no longer in print. In addition to airing on WWNO radio 89.9 in New Orleans, they can be heard on Pandora Internet Radio and several streaming sources including iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Calm Radio, Apple Music and Amazon. As a continuation of bringing peaceful classical music to a wider audience, since 2019, she has played classical piano on Fridays in the lobby of St. Tammany Hospital as a volunteer in their Healing Arts program.