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Orphy Robinson is an award-winning Vibraphonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, he has written music for television, film, theater, opera and contemporary classical music.

Orphy released two critically acclaimed solo albums on the famous Blue Note label in the 1990s, "When Tomorrow Comes" and "The Vibes Describes", which was launched at the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Audiences discovered his playing when he joined the 1980s big band Jazz Warriors, Orphy was also a member of the Brit Funk Band Savanna which was where he first came to the notice of critics and audiences alike.

His work as a composer has led to commissions for Contemporary Dance companies like Phoenix Dance for whom he was commissioned to write the Suite "42 Shades in the black" and subsequently represented Great Britain at the Atlanta Olympic Games, He has written for the English Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and for the Romanian violin virtuoso Alex Balanescu.