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Robert Rivera

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Robert Rivera is an eclectic classical cellist and award-winning composer who play’s acoustic and electric bass. He is an Artist in Residence at Lexington High School in conjunction with Regie Gibson, internationally known poet. As the Assistant Music Director for the Cafe Fleuri at the Langham Hotel in Boston, MA since the fall of 2009, his Robert Rivera Trio provides jazz for the Sunday Brunch at Cafe Fleuri.

In 2009, Robert won an award for best film score with Ben Getty at the Arizona Independent Film Festival. He and Getty wrote the music for the film Bright, which premiered in January 2011 at the Sacramento Film Festival. The film Bright features Robert Rivera on cello. Robert recently completed a project for the Museum of African American History of Boston, MA, in which he scored and produced all music for an iPod download audio walking tour.

His studio, One East Recording in NYC, has released records such as the latest Rolling Stones remasterd record, Exile on Main Street. Seven of ten new tracks were recorded at One East Recording. Robert has recorded with The Talking Heads, Garbage, and has played with David Bowie.

Robert studied at the Manhattan School of Music where he received a BM in Cello and Composition in 1996. He attended Mannes College of Music where he received a Diploma and currently takes classes towards his Masters at the New England Conservatory. He has also attended Julliard; the Longy School of Music, studying Early Music; the Boston Conservatory; and the Moscow Conservatory in Moscow, Russia where he received a Certificate in Performance. Robert has studied with Nathan Stuch, Marian Feldman and Frederick Zlotkin of the Manhattan School of Music, Andres Diaz, formerly of the Boston Conservatory, and George Seaman and Phoebe Carrai of the Longy School of Music.

Robert has played extensively in the US and Europe, working in genres as diverse as classical, jazz, and commercial pop music. Robert has recorded with The Talking Heads, Garbage, and has played with David Bowie. The orchestras Robert has worked with include: The Waltham Symphony Orchestra, the Waltham Philharmonic, Music Fabric Ensemble in Stuttgart, Germany, the Brooklyn Opera, the Boston Civic Symphony, the New Amsterdam Symphony, and the Huntington Symphony.

The Boston Globe said, “Robert Rivera is a rush.” (2001).