Robert Berkman (b.1955)

Robert Berkman has spent 35 years as the music director of America’s last surviving piano roll factory. He is among a handful of performing ‘pianolists’ in the world, capable of exploiting the player piano’s expressive capabilities to a remarkable degree, and is increasingly in demand as a speaker and recitalist in genres ranging from classical to jazz to rock ‘n’ roll to the avant-garde.