Robert Cram

Robert Cram studied at the Montreal Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School in New York, and in France. Principal flutist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra for 23 years, he then became Director of the Music Department at the University of Ottawa. Mr. Cram has performed as a soloist with leading orchestras, summer festivals, and contemporary music festivals across Canada. He is currently the Director and Producer of the Harry Somers Recording Project. In 2009, he received the inaugural Oskar Morawetz Performance Award and was named one of the Canadian Music Centre’s Ambassadors for Canadian Music. He won a Juno Award in 2004 for his recording of Jacques Hétu’s Flute Concerto. In 1998, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.