Robin Spielberg
Performance: Robin Spielberg
Description: Robin Spielberg is one of America’s most beloved pianist/composers. Treat Mom to a special event for Mother’s Day!
Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011
Time: 7:00 p.m
Ticket Prices: $22 (A/B) & $20 (C/D)
Pre-show Dinner Available: Seating is limited, so make your reservations early. Call the Ticket Office for details.
About ROBIN SPIELBERG
pianist / composer / recording artist / concert artist
“From the moment she walks on stage, until the last note gently caresses the room, Spielberg casts a spell on her audience that is palpable, visceral, and spiritual. Better said–after you see her perform, you’ll just feel a whole lot better about the world.” -Bruce Bressack/HippoPress New Hampshire
Robin Spielberg is one of America`s most beloved pianist/composers. With an impressive tour schedule and hundreds of thousands of recordings sold, this Steinway Artist has been winning the hearts of listeners around the world with her compelling melodies and sensitive piano technique since debuting her first recording of original solos for piano, Heal of the Hand.
Thousands of people have been both entertained and touched by Ms. Spielberg`s live concerts; she has toured more than any female composer/pianist in the past decade. Her natural talent for making audiences immediately comfortable transforms what could easily be an ordinary evening at the concert hall into a very special concert Event. Robin has such a personal and expressive way of playing, and her story-telling about the origins of the music makes the pieces come alive…the evening was both touching and mesmerizing writes Wind & Wire Magazine of Robin’s San Francisco area concert. Robin Spielberg has an indeniable melodic gift says New York Concert Review of Ms. Spielberg’s Carnegie Hall debut.
A prolific composer, Spielberg has fifteen recordings to her credit and appears on over 40 compilations around the world. Her discography includes albums of original piano solos, arrangements of American standards, original pieces for piano/ensemble, recordings for the holidays, and a CD of lullabies. Her 16th recording, a collection of Americana pieces for piano/ensemble will be released September 2010.
Her playMountain Music debut, Dreaming of Summer, earned a Finalist Award from New Age Voice Magazine in June 2001 in the Best Acoustic Instrumental category and was released later in the year in Thailand, China, Hong-Kong, Korea and Malaysia, with one of the tracks also gaining popularity with audiences from its use as a soundtrack in the Korean award-winning television drama Winter Love Song.
A New Kind of Love is Robin Spielberg’s 15th CD, and her first of all-original work in eight years. It is also her most personal and expressive yet.
A New Kind of Love marks the artist’s return to creating the kind of music for which she is most famous: melodic soundtracks for her life journey. Exploring friendships, world beauty, the passage of time and the transitions of seasons, the CD is an intimate listening experience bound to resonate with Spielberg`s legions of fans as well as those new to her music. The CD earned Spielberg a nomination in the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards (Best Piano Album category).
Ms. Spielberg began touring the US in 1996. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in a sold-out
performance at the Weill Recital Hall in 1997 and has performed there twice since. Other memorable performances include a guest spot on the PBS television special, The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with Thomas Moore; live performances on CBS Saturday Morning, Good Morning Arizona, Life Time Live, CBS New Orleans, a private concert for the factory workers at the Steinway & Sons historic piano factory in New York, and a month-long concert tour through rural Montana in 2007.
Popular with Asian audiences, Robin has released two CDs in Korea and is on several compilations on Asian labels. She has twice toured in South Korea making concert appearances at the renowned Seoul Arts Center and KBS Hall. She recorded a special concert for Airiang TV which aired throughout Asia. Robin is returning to Asia for a concert tour in April/May 2010.
In the field of dance, The West Florida Youth Ballet choreographed a program of dance works based on her music, ballroom waltzes were choreographed to her piece, Walk with Me on both PBS` Great American Ballroom Challenge and BYU Ballroom Dance Team presentations.
Robin Spielberg is a Celebrity Spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association. Robin Spielberg’s interest in music and healing grew when she witnessed first-hand, the positive effect music had on her own baby daughter (born prematurely) during her four-month stay in the neo-natal intensive care unit. A CD entitled Beautiful Dreamer was the musical result of this experience, a recording of lullabies and songs for
the parent & child on solo piano. Ms. Spielberg`s work with music and healing has been documented in The New York Times and in segments on LifeTime Live and ABC News.
Beautiful Dreamer was hailed by Child Magazine as one of The Best of 2000, and also earned accolades in Parenting and The Washington Post. Robin donates $1 from the sale of each Beautiful Dreamer CD to music therapy research. As Spokesperson, she conducts workshops and seminars on the topic of music and healing throughout the U.S. in hospitals, schools, community centers, nursing care facilities and performing arts
centers. Spielberg was the featured performer at AMTA`s national conference in Minneapolis in Fall 2003, performing for over 1300 music therapists from around the world, and was the featured performer at the 2008 conference in St. Louis, Missouri. She has conducted workshops and seminars for AMTA throughout the US. She served as panelist on The Transformative Power of Music during the Pennsylvania Presenters
Conference in May 2008.
Ms. Spielberg`s music has ranked in the top ten in its category on iTunes, the digital on- line music service launched by Apple. Many of her pieces have served as soundtracks to documentaries and commercials both here and abroad.
Ms. Spielberg graduated with high honors and a BFA from New York University. She currently resides in rural Pennsylvania with her husband/business partner, their eleven year old daughter and two cats.
Photos, interviews, reviews, a listening room. video clips of performances and current touring itinerary can be found on the artist`s web site at www.robinspielberg.com. Robin Spielberg is represented on tour by The Roots Agency/SMG Artists (www.SMGartists.com).
