Jazz pianist/composer Roberta Piket is a native New Yorker and graduate of the New England Conservatory. The daughter of a successful composer, she has played professionally as a sidewoman with David Liebman, Rufus Reid, Michael Formanek, Lionel Hampton, Mickey Roker, Billy Mintz, Harvey Wainapel, Eliot Zigmund, Benny Golson and the BMI/NY Jazz Orchestra, and has twice been a featured guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. It is in her work as a composer and bandleader, however, that the depth of Roberta's talent becomes most evident.

Roberta, who holds degrees in both Computer Science and Music turned away from a future as a software engineer to pursue an inevitable path in creative music. A gifted composer, Roberta placed second in the first annual Thelonious Monk BMI Composers' Competition.

Recently, Roberta played solo and in duo with Marian McPartland in concert at the Eastman School of Music. In addition to her solo piano activities, Roberta has also expressed her unique musical voice through two projects: The Roberta Piket Trio and her Wurlitzer-led electric quartet "Alternating Current". Roberta's trio has toured Japan as well as the U.S.

Roberta's CDs frequently make the "best of" lists of the major jazz magazines and have earned rave reviews in JazzTimes, downbeat, the Washington Post, Piano & Keyboard, and Jazziz, as well as other publications. A musical pioneer in more ways than one, Roberta is the first and only woman leader with a release on the Criss Cross label (the 1997 Unbroken Line).

Listen to some of Roberta's playing:

Blue Slipper Frogs - Roberta Piket and Alternating Current

So In Love (Cole Porter) - The Roberta Piket Trio