# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-aitken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:25:14.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-aitken"
name: "Robert Aitken"
slug: "robert-aitken"
description: "Robert Morris Aitken is a Canadian composer and flautist. He began his career as a teenager playing in a number of orchestras, notably becoming the youngest principal flautist in the history of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 1958 at the age of 19. In 1971, he abandoned ensemble performance to pursue a highly successful solo career. He has appeared as a soloist with major symphony orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has made more than 40 commercial recordings."
tagline: "Canadian music composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.68
  momentum:             7.297297297297298
  historical:           9.006264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2164289/"
    handle:    "nm2164289"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bobaitken.ca/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/445527"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روبيرت ايتكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken_(compositor)"
    title: "Robert Aitken (compositor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken_(Musiker)"
    title: "Robert Aitken (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken_(composer)"
    title: "Robert Aitken (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken"
    title: "Robert Aitken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken"
    title: "Robert Aitken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ロバート・エイトケン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Эйткен, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/245adeee-6f6a-4b66-94ee-c005237d1e7f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1269732"
    title: "Robert Aitken"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump