Biography

At the insistence of his parents, Robert began studying piano when he was eight. By the time he was sixteen he had acquired an electric piano, a synthesizer, and a TEAC 4-track recorder. Robert spent his after school hours experimenting with multitrack recording and loving every minute of it.

Robert’s first album, Time, Space, and Gasoline, was released online in April, 2008, and was met with wide international acclaim, notably in Europe and Japan. The songs “Sao Paulo” and “Cold December Rain” quickly charted in the Smooth Jazz Top 10 category on Soundclick.com, with “Cold December Rain” claiming the number one spot for 3 weeks.

Double Helix, an instrumental album that is part new age, part jazz, part ambient, and part progressive rock, is the scheduled follow-up to Time, Space, and Gasoline. It is due to be released online soon.

Robert currently plays keyboards for the classic rock band Fineline, does solo piano gigs throughout Georgia, and teaches. He has played jazz piano with the Atlanta-based quartet On The Cool Side and along with Patti Holiday, opened for Eric Essix at the 2009 W. C. Handy Jazz Festival in Florence, AL. This year he teamed with Rai Ragland and her band for a festival in Charleston, SC. He accompanies a local middle school choir, and has also been very active in the music programs of two Catholic churches.

Robert is also available for parties, weddings, session work, and substitutions.  For more information, please contact him.

In all of his spare time, Robert teaches English Literature to middle school students. He enjoys reading, listening to a wide variety of music, and playing vintage musical instruments. His political slant is moderately extreme righto-leftism. Robert likes Monty Python, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Clint Eastwood westerns, German chocolate cake, and dogs.

Robert is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).