Roberta Piket: PianoJazz DC (Livestream)

Roberta Piket

“Roberta Piket stands among the elite minds of modern jazz.” 
National Public Radio

Pianist Roberta Piket is a native New Yorker who explores the more adventurous harmonic possibilities of jazz and improvised music.  The New England Conservatory graduate is a prize winner in the Thelonius Monk Composers Competition and recipient of a grant from  the National Endowment for the Arts. Roberta frequently appears at the top of the Downbeat Magazine readers' polls. 

Roberta's first recording was with the Lionel Hampton band, in addition to collaborations with David Liebman, Benny Golson,  Valery Ponomarev,  Rufus Reid, Ben Vereen, and her husband, the renowned drummer Billy Mintz.   Tours have taken her to  Japan, France, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Ukraine and Spain.

Roberta is a regular performer at the Blue Note, Birdland, and Dizzy’s at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Smalls, and Mezzrow, and appeared three times on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio show.   

 Roberta launched the Nabokov Project,  setting  poems of  Vladimir Nabokov to music for piano, violin, mezzo-soprano, percussion, and speaker.  The project was presented in New York, Prague and Vienna to rave reviews.

Roberta has taught at the Eastman School of Music,  Rutgers University, Cal Arts, Duke University, the Northwestern University Composers’ Colloquium, and other schools in the U.S., Europe and Japan.