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ARRANGER/COMPOSER/PERFORMER/MUSIC DIRECTOR
Rob Mathes is an arranger/composer, nationally renowned music director and a multi-faceted performer.
AS ARRANGER/CONDUCTOR:
Rob has orchestrated music for a number of stars including recent records by: Rod Stewart, Lou Reed, George Michael, Celine Dion, Vanessa Carlton, Tim McGraw, Michael Bolton, Elton John, R Kelly, Natalie Cole, and Marc Anthony.
Sting recently recorded Mathes¹ arrangement of the classic American song ³In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning². He has written music for cellist Yo Yo Ma and recently arranged ³You¹ll Never Walk Alone²
for The Three Tenors-Live In Paris CD. He has been the arranger and guitarist on the last six Pavarotti and Friends concerts held each year in Modena, Italy and orchestrated music for the closing ceremony of
the Olympics last year. He has just finished arranging the new Tony Bennett-k.d. Long record after arranging Tony's Grammy winning "Bennett Sings The Blues", is working on a film for Disney with Carly
Simon and has written some orchestrations for pop artist Sade.
AS COMPOSER/SONGWRITER: Rob's songs have been recorded by: Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville, Vanessa Williams, Jon Secada, Wynonna Judd,
Michael Crawford, Randy Travis, Alabama, Oleta Adams, Suzi Boguss and Kathy Mattea.
AS MUSIC DIRECTOR: These past two years he has been the musical director for both the Songwriter's Hall Of
Fame Awards and NBC's Concert For America taped at the Kennedy Center on 9/11. He was the Music Director for the star studded Bono tribute during this year's Grammy week. He arranged and conducted for
Babyface and Stevie Wonder on the 1998 Grammy Awards. He served as musical director for the Phil Ramone-produced show The Score for Trio cable network as well as the ONE WORLD JAM: A CONCERT FOR GLOBAL HARMONY show
taped at Radio City Music Hall for UPN Network. He was also the music director for the Quincy Jones produced World Economic Forum concert at the Waldorf Astoria in 2002 featuring artists from all over the world
including: Renee Fleming, Hakim, Khaled, Noa, Lauryn Hill, India Arie, and Herbie Hancock..
AS PERFORMER: Rob was the special guest artist for The Boston Pops National Christmas Tour in 2000 and has
subsequently written a series of arrangements for them. In 2000, PBS televised nationwide his own Christmas special Rob Mathes: Christmas Is Coming featuring Michael McDonald, Vanessa Williams, David Sanborn,
and renowned actor Ossie Davis. He has also just completed his years in the making Pop record "Evening Train" to be released in 2004.
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