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Synergy - the website, the book, and the community - is the brainchild of Robert Martin.
In a career spanning 6 decades, Robert Martin was cellist of a string quartet, professor of philosophy, and vice president of a liberal arts college. In 2005 he led the founding of a new conservatory of music at Bard College in the United States, the first (and so far only) conservatory to require all its students to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in a field other than music in addition to their specialized music studies. Since leaving Bard, Martin continues to devote himself to the rethinking of music education, as a consultant and through authorship of Synergy: Music and the Liberal Arts.
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