ROB J. BOWERS


Professional pianist, composer, lyricist, and arts educator with an extensive background in stage and musical direction, songwriting, and performance.

Available for Booking now!

Welcome and Hello from beautiful Monterey, California!

I'm Rob Bowers...a Musician, Singer, Composer/Lyricist, Theatre Director, Musical Director, and Educational Teaching Artist/Performer for Young People.

If you have a creative situation on your plate that could benefit from some consultation or collaboration...you've landed in the right place!

So, what exactly do I do?  Well...what exactly do you need? 

I could be the perfect fit for your project if you are....

• planning a gathering and want live Piano Entertainment

• thinking it might be fun to have original music/comedy

material created and performed specifically for such an

event

• a restauranteur wanting live Piano or PianoBar at your site

• a singer wanting arrangements, charts, show-coaching, or

an accompanist for a gig

• hoping to find a composer, lyricist, playwright for a project

you're dreaming up 

• in need of a Theatre Director or Musical Director with over

100+ shows in his background

• looking for an actor who sings

• an Educator longing for an arts-program Teaching

Artist who presents Music Theatre / Vocal Music life skills

to Elementary-aged kids -- someone who has created and

taught thousands of such classes, and has received a

"Performing Artist in Schools Award for Lifetime

Achievement" for their work at the Los Angeles Music

Center.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. Check out "The Résumé" for some of my history! It's all true. Listen to a few tracks! If you want to hear more, contact me about my independent album, "Rob Bowers (an Acquired taste) Songs: 1969 to 2019".

If something here seems related to what you're after or gave you a new idea, let’s discuss! You can reach me by using the contact form, and I'll get in touch with you ASAP.


Thanks for your visit, I look forward to an opportunity for us to work together!

The Résumé

(Please note:  ** before a title indicates that Rob directed the show)

Cabaret / Nightclub / Piano Performances:

Roasts and Private-Party Shows: Writing and performing Special Material 1980+

  • The LA Music Center Operating Company and Education Division Holiday Parties
  • William Doyle Law Firm-- events for Case-Swayne Co., Davidson Corporation, Imperial Capital, others
  • Avery Corporation -- Chuck Miller, President -- parties and events, LA and Jackson, WY

Lori Donato's Sunday Jam @ Oil Can Harry's Bar Studio City CA

  • An afternoon "Salon" of singers in all styles, featuring Lori Donato on Keys

Producer-creator, MC/Associate Pianist 2012-2018


Background Piano

  • Private Home-Parties in the hundreds throughout Southern California
  • Century Plaza Hotel, Century City CA
  • The Valley Hunt Club, Pasadena CA
  • The Regency Club, Westwood CA


Nightclub/PianoBar: Headliner and Accompanist

  • The Oasis (three-year engagement), Studio City CA
  • The Ten20 Club, West Hollywood CA
  • The Other Side, Silverlake CA
  • The Gardenia Club, Hollywood CA
  • ROB BOWERS at The Cinegrill -- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (4-piece band arrangements)

"Cause and Reflect” “Unhinged” “The Attack of the Killer Instincts” “A MidSummer Night’s Delusion”


Musical Director-Arranger-Accompanist for Cabaret Performers

  • including Bruce Kimmel (writer-director The First Nudie Musical)
  • Maggie Roswell (The Simpsons)
  • Darci Monet, Amy Bowers, Judith Wolinsky, Penny Hamilton


** The Ahmanson Theatre Tribute to Robert Fryer 1972

  • Hired as creator, writer, Musical Director, also did 5-part vocal and keyboard arrangements

Fryer was, at the time, Artistic Director of the Ahmanson Theatre. His Broadway career as producer included:

“Mame”, “Sweet Charity”, “Wonderful Town”, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, “Saratoga”, “Shangri-La”, and others

Youth and Family "Market" Enterprises

Winner: Professional Artists in Schools Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2001

The PASA is the "Oscar" of Los Angeles Artists-In-Schools, presented in ceremony at the

Los Angeles Music Center


Writer-Director-Producer-Performer:

  • Rob Bowers and the Rock Salt Company 1974 - 2012

  • Performances for over 40 different productions of Youth and Family Cabaret-styled “Edutainment” Revues, including:

WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY?; MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR;

BACH TO THE FUTURE; MISS LILY GILDED & FRIENDS;

AMERICAN KALEIDOSCOPE; A SONG FOR US ALL

  • Independently produced and presented in venues including:

LA Music Center “On Tour” Roster 1986-1991 (Schools and Arts Festivals)

Open House at the Hollywood Bowl

Cal-Tech “Family Faire” series

City of Fullerton Schools, 1976 - 2005


Teaching Artist -- Los Angeles Music Center Education Division 1986 to 2014

Independent Projects 1974 to 2018

  • Creating and implementing Workshops in Music Theatre, Vocal Music (2,000+ workshops presented)
  • Development and presentation of Artist/Educator “Professional Development” seminars


Creator, Artistic Director, MC: “Kids on Stage at the Starlight Bowl” 1992-2002

A Summer “Arts Festival” for young people in Burbank CA, Produced by Park and Rec Department

Selected, hired, organized, created workshops, and presented Performing Companies


Performer/Writer with Orchestra:

  • Walt Disney Concert Hall 2007

Played “The Actor” in “Northern Lights” concert with LA Philharmonic

  • LA Philharmonic “Symphonies for Youth” (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Tour)

Various seasons between 1971 and 1978

Wrote and performed “solo-actor plays” to accompany the Orchestra’s performances of:

“Scheherazade”, “Pictures at an Exhibition”, “Hary Janos Suite”, “Omphale’s Spinning Wheel”

  • Served in similar capacity with local Symphonies in Carson, Long Beach, Conejo Valley


SCamp: USC Family Summer Resort Project at Wonder Valley Ranch

  • Managing Director/Creative Director 1984-1998

Developed entire programming of events, including creation of Theme Night activities

Onsite hands-on management/implementation of all staff assignments 

  • Served as active participant in activities and events for all ages

(Babies to Senior citizens)


MC/Storyteller for “Open House at the Hollywood Bowl” (First MC 1970 - 1973)

Musical Direction

CHRISTMAS AT DARCI'S (Virtual) with singer Darci Monet 2015-2018  (Arrangements/Accompanist)


Write Act Theater Company (North Hollywood, California 2015-2016)

  • RENEWAL
  • PILLARS OF NEW YORK (Ghost-wrote score, arrangements)


GLITTERING DIAMONDS

  • 75th Anniversary Benefit Gala for the LACC Theatre Academy

(5-piece band arrangements, vocal director, commandeering professional guest artists)


** LORI AND THE BOYS: A Saucy New Cabertainment (Cavern Club Theater, LA 2012)

Additionally did Vocal arrangements for company medleys and other Special Material


**MUSICAL THEATRE -- A CONCISE HISTORY REPRISE! Productions - 2001-2022 

(Touring Show for High Schools)


** HUMBUG!! (Actor's Alley Theatre, Studio City, CA)

Bruce Kimmel’s TOGETHER AGAIN (arrangements, Original Cast Album) 

Golden Mall Theatre, LA  1982-1983


IDENTICAL TWINS FROM BALTIMORE (Reading; ghost-wrote score @ West Beth Theatre, NYC)


The New Rose Cafe and Cabaret L.A. - In-House Musical Director 1982-1984

  • STEPPIN’ OUT -- The New 30’s Review [2-year run] (also arranger, pianist, and actor)
  • XMAS IN L.A.

Encino Theatre Guild:

  • ** AN EVENING WITH RODGERS AND HART 1984
  • ** THE APPLE TREE 1985

Long Beach Studio Theatre:

  • TINTYPES (Winner: Dramalogue Award “Best Musical Direction”; also arranger/pianist)
  • **PIPPIN
  • RODGERS WITH HART (also arranger)


The Nine O’Clock Players, LA Assistance League Playhouse 8 Shows, 1982 through 2001

  • **ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
  • **THE WIZARD OF OZ
  • **THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
  • **WEE WILLIE WINKIE
  • **ROBIN HOOD
  • **OZ!
  • **BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
  • **PETER PAN

The LACC Theatre Academy Between 1971-1974

  • YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
  • OUR TOWN
  • ONCE UPON A MATTRESS [LACC USO Tour]
  • LYSISTRATA (also COMPOSER, staging musical sequences)
  • THE APPLE TREE

Composer - Lyricist / Book Writer (as noted) / Musical Director/ Musical Staging

  • ALL shows listed have been produced


BITE ME! (Music, Lyrics) 2003, 2008

Heaven Cabaret Theatre, Palm Springs, CA; Richmond Triangle Players; Richmond VA

** BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) 

Nine O’Clock Players; Little Broadway Productions--LA Tour 1985-1993

PEER Based upon Ibsen’s PEER GYNT

(Music, Lyrics, co-author Book, Staging, arrangements) Camino Theatre Company 1983

** SIDE-SHOW RAG (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) Camino Theatre Company 1980

**THE SELFISH GIANT (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) Hollywood Free Theatre 1978

** THE MUSIC BOX (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) Open House at the Hollywood Bow 1973

** ALL OF US (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) [Commedia II Theatre, LA]

** FAUGH! LA LA LA LA (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) Camino Theatre Company 1973

** THE SILVER BEAR (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director) Open House at the Hollywood Bowl 1972

THUMBELINA (Book, Music, Lyrics) Caminito Theatre 1969

** Musicals written for and performed by student actors as Teaching Artist LA

WICKED WOMEN FROM SPACE, THE PIED PIPER, THE COLOR WARS, TALE OF THE KITE,

DREAMSCAPE, CANNIBALS FOR BREAKFAST, Others

Composer (Background Scores for Plays)

JOHN BROWN’S BODY Laguna Hills Playhouse 2002 (also arrangements, staging)

MISS MARGARIDA’S WAY Paul Verdier’s Stages Theatre, LA 1984

THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE Sanford Robbins Prods 1980

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH  Arlington Park Theatre, Chicago 1973

(Songs; background music; plus short film for production)

A TASTE OF HONEY Caminito Theatre 1971

PETER PAN - the original play Camino Theatre Company (Score with Songs)

(12-piece arrangements, conducting-playing, staging dances)

M’LORD AND LADY Camino Theatre Company 1971 (Written/arranged for harpsichord)

[Composing Citation from American College Theatre Festival]


Actor

“Captain Hook” in “Peter Pan” -- the musical Nine O’Clock Players 1992

“Jeffrey Taylor, Jr.” in “Letters to Harriet Tubman” Paul Morse Prods. - Music Center On Tour 1990s

“Koko” in “The Mikado” Long Beach Studio Theatre (Tempo Award, “Best Actor, Musical”) 1987

“Nicky” in “Steppin’ Out -- The New 30’s Review” New Rose Cafe & Cabaret LA 1981--1983

Original Songs

More recordings available on Soundcloud!

Let's Connect!

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Please send me a message below with your best contact information and an idea of what you're looking for, and I will reach out to you.

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