Educator
Throughout his career, Robert Avalon mentored several students in piano. His students repeatedly won important state, national and international music competitions. Two of his piano students performed as soloists with the Houston Symphony as winners of the prestigious Josie Tomforde Young Artist Auditions in 1993 and 1994. Similarly, his students have been awarded scholarships to study at the Juilliard School and one was invited to perform with the Houston Symphony classical subscription concerts for the 1995-1996 season with Christoph Eschenbach conducting and with the Chicago Symphony in 1997.