Robert B. Portney, MD
Violinist and Physician
Violin - Concert Career
Gurtman and Murtha Associates (450 7th Ave., New York, NY 10123
(212) 967-7350
Management and Public Relations of Concert Violin Career
EMI - Angel Record (Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto)
PBS Special "A Celebration of the World's Greatest Music"
Awards in Violin
Leonard Bernstein Scholarship - full tuition to Harvard College
Harvard National Scholar
National Society of Arts and Letters, 1st Prize Violin Competition
International Mozart Festival - Violin Competition, 1st Prize
Bicentennial Achievement Award - Concert Violinist
Hall of Fame Award -Outstanding Accomplishment in the Arts, Abington,
Penn. October 1992
Articles about Robert Portney as both concert violinist and scientist
in the New York Times, Boston Glove, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles
Times, People Magazine, etc.
NSAL, Washington Chapter is pleased that Robert is not only
a distinguished violinist but has also a distinguished career in medicine
working as Medical Director since December 1, 1996 at MHM/Bay Colony Geriatrics
and is recognized in publications, speaking engagements, and teaching geriatrics,
neoropsychiatry and psychiatry in North Eastern United States.
If you have trouble reaching Robert, you may e-mail us at [email protected]
and we will forward your message to him.
copyright Web Weaver, NSAL, Washington Chapter March
1997-2000
These pages are dedicated to the memory of a former member, Suzanne
M. Smith who prepared the first Who's Who of Former winners from 1945 -
1979 with supplements until her passing in 1989.