Robin Fay Massie is a mother, an Emergency Clinical Nurse in the greater Baltimore area of Maryland, as well as an accomplished pianist, violinist, and violist. She is a celebrated concert artist and orchestral musician throughout the country. In particular, she is the founder and Executive Director of the organization, “Musicians of Mercy”: a group of volunteer musicians who have been putting on benefit concert series to aid in humanitarian efforts around the world since 2010.
In her words from one of her many interviews she has said, “In the words of one of my mentors, "There is room at the table for everyone in music." Music invites us to connect through the depth of our common human experience. As a woman, as a musician, and as a nurse, I can look into someone's eyes and immediately relate— understanding how my own suffering has shaped and strengthened me. Music amplifies my unique voice. The longer I live, the more I unapologetically embrace my own vulnerability, with and without my viola.”
