BIOGRAPHY Oregon native Rob Scheps began studying the tenor saxophone at age nine. He grew up on Long Island, New York. After having graduated high school at age sixteen, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory. He received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies with Honors in performance in 1986. While living in the Boston area he led his own groups; most notably the True Colors Big Band. In 1988 he moved to New York, formed the Rob Scheps Core-tet and Bartokking Heads and established himself as a formidable force on the jazz scene. |
A member of the Mannes College of Music Faculty, Rob has been a workshop clinician at Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Hunter, Lewis and Clark,UMKC/ Kansas City, Friends Univ.( Wichita,KS), and Whitman Colleges as well as Portland State and the University of Connecticut. | |
PERFORMANCE/RECORDING RESUME
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HONORS Down Beat Magazine Awards: Best Chamber Music Performance,Soprano Sax Solo (1985) Bas Relief, Best Funk Group (1984) Outstanding Performance, Tenor Sax Solo (1987) Outstanding performance, Rob Scheps Quintet(1987) COMPOSITION COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMS OF CRISIS, Brass Arts Collective,NYC GIFTS Private collection, Boston LISOTTE, commissioned by artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeoise |
DISCOGRAPHY Terumasa Hino BLUESTRUCK Blue Note Records Bob Moses Time Stood Still Grammavision JCA with Sam Rivers & Julius Hemphill Flux Northeastern Duffy Jackson Swing,Swing,Swing Milestone/Fantasy Dmitri Matheny Red Reflections Monarch Darrell Katz Dreamland Cadence John Stowell The Brazil Project MAGNETS! MAGNETS! Live @ the Earshot Jazz Festival | ****** The Brazil Project is available for purchase by emailed request to coretet@hotmail.com. ****** REVIEWS "Rob Scheps plays all the reeds, flute and piccolo, and plays them beautifully. He has performed with the Gil Evans Orchestra, Teramasa Hino, Roswell Rudd, and many others in Canada, Japan, Europe, on Broadway and all over America." John Stowell Another new release, King On The Road, features "West Coast Jazz Diva" vocalist Nancy King, bassist Glenn Moore and Rob Scheps (Cardas Records). Rob currently co-leads a bi-coastal jazz/funk project, MAGNETS! with Defunkt bassist Kim Clarke. You have been listening to Rob's "KURASAWA" from the MAGNETS!Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival Click below to order or hear more! ****************************************************** |