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“Powerful and emotional music.” Matt Stuart, Time Magazine. Pianist, Steinway Artist, and composer Robin Meloy Goldsby is the author of Piano Girl, Rhythm, Waltz of the Asparagus People, and Manhattan Road Trip. Robin’s popular monthly essays, featured on her Notes and Words blog, offer a behind the scenes glimpse into the inner-life of a working musician.  Her seven solo piano recordings, available on all streaming platforms, have attracted a loyal following of piano enthusiasts around the globe. Explore this site to discover more about Robin’s books and recordings, to read her monthly essays, to download her electronic press kit, or to find out where she’ll be performing live in the coming months. Robin’s music is available on all streaming platforms. To stay in touch, please sign up for Robin’s monthly newsletter—it’s free, fun, and filled with music, light, and laughter. And do have a listen to The Piano Girl Podcast—a new episode every month. Do you play the piano? Robin’s solo piano sheet music is now available here.

A Note from Robin

Good news! I will return to the Steinway at Excelsior Hotel Ernst on Friday, September 4th. Full schedule: I’ll play every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday throughout the year, from 16:00 – 19:00. It’s an extremely spacious room, where you can enjoy afternoon tea or a pre-dinner cocktail accompanied by my music. Please call +49 221 2701 to reserve a table.  In the meantime, please remember my music is available on all of your favorite streaming channels. I am fond of Pandora (I have over 138 million listeners!), but you can find me everywhere. And get ready! My new book, Piano Girl Playbook will be published by Backbeat Books/Rowman Littlefield in early 2021.

With gratitude,

Robin

With HRH, the Prince of Wales, after my solo piano performance at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of In Kind Direct, an organization founded by Prince Charles to encourage corporate giving for social good.

Featured Album

Home and Away

“Graceful music by a pianist with an exquisite touch. Beautiful, just beautiful.” Marian McPartland, NPR Piano Jazz EPK, Home and Away Direct from the Artist Robin on Pandora (North America, Australia, New Zealand) Stream on Apple Music Robin on Spotify Robin Meloy Goldsby’s elegant album of acoustic solo piano music, Home and Away, takes the listener […]

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Featured Book

Manhattan Road Trip: Short Stories

Manhattan Road Trip: Short Stories In Robin Meloy Goldsby’s musical tales of passion, wild success and gut-wrenching regret, a classical pianist battles middle age and Rachmaninoff; a bebop saxophonist struggles with a varmint sharing her New York City apartment; and a cellist performs Mozart for her mentally ill mother. Filled with the biting humor and […]

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Thanksgiving: Keep the Cat off the Pie

My mother made excellent Thanksgiving pies. Stripey the cat thought so, too. No store-bought piecrusts for mom, but homemade masterpieces that involved chilled butter, shortening, Grandma Rawsthorne’s secret-weapon multi-generational aluminum pie pans, and a big dusty mess in the kitchen. One year, Stripey leapt to the counter and, as cats do, walked across a pumpkin pie, an hour before guests were due to arrive. Without missing a beat, mom grabbed a spray can of whipped cream, covered the incriminating paw prints with an inch of white fluff, and swore me to secrecy. In her defense, the catwalk happened decades before the discovery of toxoplasmosis, so her cover-up was hardly a bioterrorism act on the level of the Pilgrim smallpox blankets, but still. She could have offed the entire family, which may have been exactly what Stripey had in mind.

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