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Robert Prester

Born: July 29, 1960

Robert Prester is an American jazz pianist and composer who began his career in the New York City jazz scene and is now based in Philadelphia. He is known for his instrumental jazz album of original music, Dogtown, and for Quenara, a duo recording with vocalist Adriana Samargia. Prester has performed and recorded extensively in both classical and jazz settings—from solo piano recitals and chamber ensembles to straight-ahead jazz, Latin jazz, and Brazilian jazz groups.

Prester & Samargia’s forthcoming release, High Roller Jack, showcases Prester’s recent jazz compositions with lyrics by Samargia

Triceratops

By Robert Prester

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: A Quantum Leap; Can't Get Over You; The Journey; Triceratops; Cutting Edge; Monster Woman; Something Sexy; Peppermint Nights; Complex Carbohydrates.

Quenara

By Adriana Samargia

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Things Can Only Get Better; Altar Ego; You Go to My Head; Can't Get Over You; Stolen Moments; Love Games; Lover Man; Body and Soul; But Not for Me; Sophisticated Lady; You're Everything; Quenara.

Cafe Fon Fon

By Phill Fest

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Isabel; Each and Every Week; Bossa no Choro; O Barquinho; Smile on Your Face; Para Lill Fest; Ela e Carioca; Avocado.

Phill Fest: Cafe Fon Fon

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2021

While there is no sure cure for the blues, a large dose of Brazilian music often comes about as close to driving the dark clouds away as any remedy a physician is likely to prescribe. It is hard to listen to an album such as guitarist-composer Phill Fest's sunny Café Fon Fon without smiling and tapping ...

First Snow

By Adriana Samargia

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Joi to the World; First Snow; Comfort, Comfort, O My People; Santa Claus is Comin' to Town; Away in a Manger; In the Bleak Midwinter; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Of the Father's Love Begotten; All I Want For Christmas is You; Manger Song of Mary; Masters in this Hall; Blue Christmas.

Dogtown

By Robert Prester

Label: Commonwealth Ave. Productions
Released: 2013
Track listing: Jonathon Sigel