Rate My Professor Robert Atherholt

Throughout his career, Robert Atherholt has presented clinics and masterclasses at distinguished institutions and festivals, including The New World Symphony, Oberlin Conservatory, The National Orchestral Institute, Round Top, The National Repertory Orchestra, and The Texas Music Festival. At the Shepherd School of Music, he mentored countless students over four decades, with many advancing to principal positions in major orchestras throughout the United States, as well as in Israel and Switzerland. Others have secured faculty roles at universities around the world. His profound influence on oboe pedagogy and performance is reflected in the success of his former students holding prominent positions globally. Atherholt performed on recordings with the Houston Symphony, including Tobias Picker’s “Romances and Interludes,” “Prelude,” and “Old and Lost Rivers; The Encantadas,” conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. He also appeared on Chinary Ung’s “Grand Spiral” and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 with the Houston Symphony under Hans Graf.