One of the UK’s leading solo bagpipers. Robert frequently appears with many of Britain’s finest orchestras; he has recorded live performances for BBC Radio 3, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, most notably performing with the BBCSO as part of Her late Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.

He performed as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra in their flagship Radio 2 programme Friday Night is Music Night. In January 2010 Robert became the first bagpiper to perform with the Galician Philharmonic in Spain. Robert has also appeared onstage at the Royal Albert Hall with Russell Watson and recorded with Lesley Garratt on her number one album A North Country Lass.

In 2014, he was invited to accompany Judy Murray and Anton Du Beke in a live broadcast of Strictly Come Dancing. Also in 2014, Robert made a seminal recording of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ (Master of the Queen’s Music) An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This piece was subsequently broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall on BBC1 as part of the BBC Proms. In 2018 Robert travelled to Hong Kong to perform as a soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Later in that year, he again appeared as a soloist on the BBC Folk Prom, broadcast on national television. Robert has also featured as the lone piper at BBC Proms in the Park (Hyde Park), in front of an audience of 40,000. 2022 saw appearances with the Riga Sinfonietta, Latvia, the Polska Filharmonia Baltycka in Gdansk, Poland, the Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Denmark and also the Oulu Symphony Orchestra in Finland.

Robert has also appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North.