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Rob Schwimmer's Web Site
Rob Schwimmer is a composer, pianist, thereminist, synthesist, singer, and
arranger who has performed and recorded throughout the world.
Over the years he has written for many feature films (one of which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film,) theatre works, television series, TV-movies, and documentaries as well as CD's. He has worked with Wayne Shorter, Stevie Wonder, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Henry Jaglom, Laurie Anderson, Arif Mardin, Teo Macero, Hal Willner, Muddy Waters, Annette Peacock, Sam Rivers, Geoffrey Holder, John Cale, Jay Black and the Americans, T-Bone Walker, Steve Buscemi, "Red, An Orchestra" and The New Haven Symphony (as featured theremin soloist), Burt Bacharach, Karen Black, C&C Music Factory, Matthew Barney, Adam Guettel, Mabou Mines, Mandy Barnett, Vernon Reid, Liza Minnelli, Kurt Vonnegut, Alwin Nikolai/ Murray Louis, The Zambonis, Henry Jaglom, Talujon Quartet, The Philistines, Jr., Mary Cleere Harran, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Towa Tei among others. He is also a member of The Zmiros Project, a klezmer trio.
His own new theremin CD on the November Music label is titled "Theremin Noir" (see Theremin Noir section for sales info.) Mr. Schwimmer can also be heard on CBS/Sony, Warner Brothers, Toshiba/ EMI, Def Jam/ Island, Manhattan/Blue Note, Dorian, NHK, Capricorn, Evidence, Knitting Factory, Polystar, and Traditional Crossroads records, as well as Dreamworks SKG, Universal Pictures, TriStar Pictures, HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, CBS, NBC, ABC, Discovery Channel, TBS, NHK (Japan), Lifetime, Noggin, A&E, Polish National Television, NPR and Nickelodeon.