Pianist Robyn Carmichael has established an international career, performing on concert stages of Europe and North America. She first won recognition for her musical gifts when she was a young student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, winning the Concerto Competition. Since that time, her superb artistry and virtuosity combined with great depth of interpretation have caused audiences and critics to praise her "extraordinary poetry" and her "lush, thrilling and intensely personal" performances. Ms. Carmichael was recently heard in concerts which brought her back to San Francisco, Chicago, Glasgow, and Berkeley audiences. Continued concerts for 2008-2009 include recitals in Belmont, California and Huntington, New York. She has recently appeared on Peninsula TV's "Focus on Arts" and has been heard in live radio broadcasts on KUSF-FM, KDFC-FM and KKHI-FM.  Ms. Carmichael has toured Poland on three separate occasions and played the premiere in that country of a rare Liszt work entitled "Salve Polonia". She also gave the San Francisco premiere of  that same work, sponsored by the Polish Arts and Culture Foundation. Ms. Carmichael was especially honored to be invited by the Chopin Society of Warsaw to play concerts at Chopin's birthplace, Zelazowa Wola, and recitals at their headquarters at Ostrogski Palace. She has also given concerts for the Liszt Society of Poland. In the fall of 2006, Ms. Carmichael began a highly successful collaboration with Polish narrator Witold Kolankowski, presenting the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin in an appealing format which includes a live recital interspersed with readings in Polish/English from Chopin's correspondence and an exhibit of images from Chopin's world.  In 2008-2009, they have taken their Chopin presentation to Berkeley, Chicago, New York, Connecticut and Glasgow. The Glasgow performance in September 2008 at the new BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Hall at City Halls commemorated Chopin's visit to Scotland in 1848. Past performances have also included appearances at the Aspen Music Festival, CAMI Hall in New York City , Portland's "Art for the Ears" First Thursday Concert Series, and collaborations with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and Joffrey Ballet companies. "Summer Idyll", a composition in two movements, was written for her by the late New York composer Meyer Kupferman. As an avid chamber musician, she is a former member of the San Francisco Opera Soloists, a chamber group composed of members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. She has performed with former Principal 'Cellist of the New York Philharmonic, Laszlo Varga, and was invited to play Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" on the occasion of the 100th birthday of composer at the International Stravinsky Symposium at the University of San Diego. In addition, she has worked with conductors Jean Louis LeRoux and Laszlo Varga, among others, and locally appeared at many well-known Bay Area music series such as San Francisco's Old First Church, Berkeley's Trinity Chamber Concerts, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Flood Mansion in San Francisco, Foster City's Winter Classical Concert Series the "Arts in the City" series and Pacifica Performances' "Concerts by the Sea" .