FULLTIME MEMBER SINCE 2007.
MEMBER OF NORRBOTTEN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA.
Robert Ek studied for professor Sölve Kingstedt at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. After graduation he spent a year in the USA studying for Håkan Rosengren. Robert has worked in Swedish Orchestras since 2000 but has always focused on chamber music and has recorded several CD’s and premiered a vast number of works with different ensembles.
Robert is since 2007 a member of the acclaimed ensemble Norrbotten NEO, Sweden’s only full time ensemble for contemporary music. Norrbotten NEO comissions a number of works from Swedish and international composers.
He also teaches at the School of Music at Luleå University of Technology in Piteå. As a soloist he has performed with Nordic Chamber Orchestra and Norrbottens Chamber Orchestra among others and collaborated with pianists like Bengt-Åke Lundin, Laura Barger, Staffan Sandström and Mårten Landström.
Robert Ek is also a member of the Chamber Opera of Norrbotten.