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ROBIN JAMES performs regularly as both a classical and cabaret singer. Robin trained as a lyric soprano with Beverly Morgan, and with Adele Addison at the Aspen Music Festival, where she also took performance classes with Uta Hagen and Jan DeGaetani. For the past 30 years she has performed with a number of New York’s premier choruses. Robin has sung and recorded with the New Amsterdam Singers under Clara Longstreth for over 20 years as both featured soloist and chorus member.

As a cabaret artist, Robin sings a varied repertoire, from Hoagy Carmichael and Stephen Sondheim to William Bolcom and Kurt Weill, Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf to Cole Porter and the Gershwins, and particularly enjoys the lyrics of singer-songwriters Marcy Heisler, Lorraine Feather and Christine Lavin. She performs in cabaret venues and private benefits in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere in the Northeast. Robin has produced three solo albums, collaborating with musical director and pianist Dick Gallagher on the first two and David Brunetti on the third. Fluent in French and German, she particularly enjoys singing in many languages.