Robin KIRKHAM
escapee administrator

Robin Kirkham was born in Melbourne and allegedly grew up in Launceston, Tasmania. He graduated in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from The University of Tasmania in 1986, and has since worked for the CSIRO in Melbourne in areas as diverse as industrial robots, sewer inspection vehicles, machine vision and real-time software.

As an amateur musician he has been involved in public concert-giving since high school, first in youth orchestras and later as a chorister and organiser in University Choral Societies in Hobart and Melbourne. More recently he has sung with Melbourne Chorale, and has had the pleasure of working under conductors including Charles DUTOIT, Neeme JAARVI, Hirouki IWAKI, Vernon HANDLEY, Simon HALSEY, Markus STENZ, and Graham ABBOTT.

In a very weak moment in 1989 he agreed to become the part-time financial administrator of ELISION Ensemble, a position from which he has only recently escaped. He now spends his time avoiding updating the ELISION website, by writing a computer program to update the ELISION website.

October 2000