Robin Saunders was born in 1964 and studied music under Stephen Davies at St Olave’s, where he was part of a successful trio which took first place in the National Festival of Music for Youth. He attended the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music where he studied the guitar with Patrick Bashford. He then read Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge while continuing his guitar studies privately with the same teacher; during this period he performed Rodrigo’s Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre with the orchestra of Trinity College Music Society and took part in a masterclass with the Czech guitarist Vladimir Mikulka, with whom he later studied briefly in Paris. After graduating he spent a further year at the Royal College of Music to obtain his ARCM (Performer’s), before finally opting to earn a living outside music. He has since performed in London and Mexico with the Coro Cervantes as soloist in Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Romencero Gitano, and has taken part in a previous Sine Nomine concert.