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06/02 Monday
7:30 PM ROB SCHNEIDERMAN with Bob Kaufman (drums) and Will Slater (bass)
Pianist, Composer, Arranger,
Educator
Rob Schneiderman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in
California. His Jazz career began in San Diego playing piano for visiting
soloists such as Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Harold Land and Charles
McPherson. A move to New York in 1982 led to performing and touring
experience with the likes of J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, James Moody, Art
Farmer and Clifford Jordan including trips to Europe and Japan A
performance fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts featured
Rob with George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Claudio Roditi, and Slide
Hampton. The collaboration with Slide resulted in the CD New Outlook, the
first of Rob's nine recordings as a leader for the Reservoir Music
label. These CD's contain over twenty Schneiderman originals as well as
arrangements of many standards. The most recent release is entitled
Back in Town, with Boris Kozlov on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums.
Among the sidemen featured on the other dates are Billy Higgins,
Rufus Reid, Brian Lynch, Ralph Moore, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash, Akira
Tana, Billy Hart, Gary Smulyan and Ben Riley. Rob's Reservoir
CD Keepin' in the Groove received 4 * stars (out of five) from Down Beat
magazine. Rob's recordings as a sideman include sessions with
Eddie Harris, J.J. Johnson, and TanaReid.
As a Jazz educator, Rob has most recently been in residence at the
Stanford jazz Workshop He previously taught as an adjunct professor in the
Jazz departments of both William Paterson University(with Rufus Reid) and
Queens College NY (with Jimmy Heath) in addition to giving numerous
clinics
around the country and teaching many students privately. He has also been
on the faculty of The Jazz School in Berkeley.
In May 2001 Rob received a Ph.D. in Mathematics under the guidance of
Robion Kirby from the University of California at Berkeley. After stints
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn as a National Science
Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow, NYU's Courant Institute, and the
University of Pennsylvania, Rob has recently joined the faculty of the
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College, City
University of New York. His area of interest is Low-dimensional Topology
and his research is currently focused on 2-spheres in 4-dimensional
manifolds and 3-dimensional knot theory.