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Roberta Piket

Roberta Piket is a pianist, organist, composer, vocalist, bandleader, and educator whose projects range from solo piano and trios to free improvisation.

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Photo source · Photo: John Abbott, via Roberta Piket’s official biography

Career Overview

About Roberta Piket

Piket’s official biography traces a New York musical foundation shaped by jazz piano, twentieth-century classical music, and songbook repertoire. It documents work on piano and organ as well as composition, singing, bandleading, and jazz education.[1]

Her artist discography separates solo piano, trios, original-music ensembles, duo and cooperative projects, and sideman recordings. That range extends from the 1997 leader album Unbroken Line through solo volumes, Marian McPartland repertoire, West Coast Trio, and recent collaborative improvisation.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Solo pianist, composer, and arranger

Roberta Piket solo piano

Piket’s solo recordings develop standards, improvisation, and original music without a rhythm section.[1][2]

Leader, pianist, organist, and composer

Trio and quintet projects

The official project guide distinguishes Piket’s piano trio, quintet, organ groups, and Sides/Colors ensemble as separate working formats.[1]

Composer and pianist

Nabokov Project

The chamber project sets Vladimir Nabokov poems for piano, violin, mezzo-soprano, percussion, and speaker.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2011 · Thirteenth Note Records

Sides, Colors

Leader, pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger

The album combines Piket’s trio with additional winds and strings and documents several of her instrumental and arranging roles.[1][2]

Release details

2016 · Thirteenth Note Records

One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland

Leader, pianist, and arranger

Piket leads a horn-rich ensemble and guest vocalist Karrin Allyson through a program honoring Marian McPartland.[2]

Release details

2019 · Thirteenth Note Records

Domestic Harmony: Piket Plays Mintz

Solo pianist and arranger

The solo album interprets compositions by drummer Billy Mintz, extending Piket’s unaccompanied-piano sequence.[1][2]

Release details

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Roberta Piket. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and project guide

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  2. [2] Official leader, cooperative, and sideman discography

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  3. [3] Official selected leader recording guide

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