About Rob

Rob graduated from The Royal College of Music, studying under the tutelage of Mike Moran (Piano), Ralph Salmins (Drums) and Alex Neal (Percussion).

Selected credits (live/studio/performing/arranging) include: Robbie Williams, Cher, Nile Rodgers, Kylie Minogue, Gary Barlow, Cee-Lo Green, Ne-Yo, Bryan Adams, Jess Glynne, Lenny Kravitz, Jamie Cullum, Gregory Porter, Joss Stone, Gabrielle, Nicole Scherzinger, Clean Bandit, Mel C, Mel B, Beverley Knight, Louis Tomlinson, James Morrison, Paloma Faith, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Emma Bunton, Mica Paris, Jools Holland, Alexandra Burke, Dizzee Rascall, Daniel Beddingfield, Megan McKenna, Tom Grennan, Michael Ball, Rick Wakeman, Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, Rachel Stevens, Sheridan Smith, Elaine Paige, Morten Harket, David Essex, Amber Riley, Florence & The Machine, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings,  Denise Van Outen, Izzy Bizu, Aston Merrygold, Rebecca Ferguson, Ella Eyre, Jack Savoretti, Yola, Collabro, Ailee, Goldie, Anoushka Shankar, Nicola Roberts, Justin Hawkins, Jake Shears, Martine McCutcheon, Kelis, KSI, Jason Donovan, Newton Faulkner & Dame Evelyn Glennie. Orchestral & Ensemble work includes Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Metropolitan Orchestra and The BBC Big Band. Composers and Producers that Rob has worked with include Alan Silvestri, Glenn Ballard, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Brian Rawling, Paul Meehan, Mark Taylor, Nigel Wright, Andrew Lippa, Matthew Brind, Graham Stack and Jeff Wayne.

Rob regularly works in television, particularly on The X Factor  and Britain’s Got Talent, as both an Arranger and Pianist, and has also contributed arrangements to America’s Got Talent: The Champions  and X Factor Celebrity.  He is one of the Track Producers and part of the Music Team for The Masked Singer,  and has worked on America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent: The Champions, X Factor: The Band, All Together Now  and Celebrity All Together Now, and has been in the House Band for Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow: Name That Tune and Bryn Terfel Scholarship. He recently played Keyboards in the successful The Greatest Show,  broadcast from The London Palladium on BBC One.

Additionally, Rob was the Musical Director for The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2019, has performed at The Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympic Games  and contributed a co-arrangement to The Brit Awards.

In the studio, Rob was recently the String Arranger and Conductor for the BBC Children In Need 2020  single Stop Crying Your Heart Out - produced by Grammy-Award Winning Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor. He was also the Arranger and Conductor for albums by Mica Paris' 2020 album Gospel,  Amanda Holden's  Songs From My Heart  (the highest charting British female debut album of 2020), Martin and Shirlie Kemp's  Big Band Album In The Swing Of It - all produced by Brian Rawling and Paul Meehan at Metrophonic. For the same team, he was an Arranger on the documentary Silent Night: A Song For The World, penning arrangements with Joss Stone and Anggun, and assisting Matthew Brind, he was an Associate Arranger, Conductor and Pianist on albums for Leading Ladies and Anton Du Beke - featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Big Band.  Rob also contributed an arrangement and a co-arrangement to John Barrowman's A Fabulous Christmas  record. 

He has recorded and/or conducted sessions at some of London’s top Studios, including EMI Abbey Road, Angel, RAK and British Grove. Rob was also one of the Track Producers for Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals 2019 and Rip It Up 70s, and recently completed 45 minutes of music for Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Symphonic 80s Spectacular’ Prom in the Park. Rob is the Musical Supervisor/Track Producer for Remembering The Oscars for Aljaz Skorjanec and Janette Manrara.

In 2018, Rob played Keyboards in the UK Arena Tour of Jeff Wayne’s  40th Anniversary of The War Of The Worlds  and in early 2019 joined Brendan Cole  on his Showman  tour.

West-End credits include Dreamgirls, Motown: The Musical  and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie  as Associate Conductor. He has held chairs on The War of the Worlds  and Stephen Ward,  and has also deputised on Beautiful, The Bodyguard, Bat Out Of Hell  and Thriller: Live.  He is also currently playing Keyboards on the smash-hit Back To The Future.

Rob was the Associate MD for the UK and European leg of Inala  (featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo),  MD on UK Tours of Soul Sister  and Dancing In The Streets  (including Additional Arrangements for USA/Canada Tour) and Orchestrator for Grease  at the Ljubljana Festival. He has also deputised on UK Tours of Rip It Up  and Sound Of The 60s: Live with Tony Blackburn.  Further to this, Rob is the Musical Director for TBI Media's Magic at the Movies,  and plays Keyboards for the annual Magic at the Musicals,  broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall in London for Magic FM, where he has performed with an array of West-End stars in a 60-piece Orchestra, including Marisha Wallace, Lee Mead, Ricardo Afonso, Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson, Ben Forster, Louise Dearman, Ruthie Henshall, John Owen-Jones, Maz Murray,  and Ramin Karimloo.

Rob has very proudly arranged, recorded and fixed studio musicians for over 50 successful productions at ted  for their shows worldwide for TUI, Marella and Sensatori, alongside many other large-scale projects for Guest Acts & Artists performing all over the World.