Pianist/composer/arranger ANDY ROBERTS  arrived at his approach to music and composition thru the absorption of musical styles from disparate eras. His influences range from jazz greats Fats Waller, Bud Powell, and Chick Corea to rockers like  Professor Longhair and Rick Wakeman. He incorporates all of these music genres into his own compositions and improvisations.   

  Born in 1967, Roberts grew up in Lebanon Pennsylvania and began playing professional gigs at the age of 14. He later attended and graduated from Berklee College of Music (Boston Massachusetts) where he was awarded the Joe Zawinul Scholarship. 

   Roberts repertoire includes a busy schedule of music directing, performing and writing within many formats of the music world. He has been music-director for numerous theaters, most notably for the Timbers Dinner Theater in Mt. Gretna Pa. He has arranged and recorded several nationally released children’s CD’s.  Internationally, Roberts toured Japan several times with soul legends The Three Degrees.

Roberts’ current project “Under the Radar”, is his premier CD as bandleader/composer. Under the Radar is jazz based with a nod towards progressive rock. It features many of the great musicians associated with the Central Pennsylvania music scene.

    As a band leader, Roberts has lead and co-lead several different projects as vehicles for original music and arrangements. Current bands include The Four Piece Quartet, Meantime, the Two Man Group and the Andy Roberts Group. His music has been featured on WVIA  National Public Radio and  RUV Icelandic Radio.

   As an educator, Roberts teaches jazz-studies at Lebanon Valley College in Annville Pa. and co-leads the Music in the Schools program which presents introductory jazz and improvisation programs to area schools.