Bryn Roberts is a pianist and composer who is in demand across a broad range of musical contexts.   Currently based in Portland, Oregon, Roberts is a mainstay on the national jazz scene, and continues to maintain a presence in New York City where he lived for fifteen years. He plays, tours and records widely both as a leader and a sideman, and is a frequent performer at clubs like Smalls, Mezzrow, The Jazz Gallery and Dizzy’s as well as Portland clubs such as the 1905.   An acclaimed composer and bandleader, Roberts has five albums out featuring his own music: his debut Present Tense, Ludlow (featuring Seamus Blake, Drew Gress and Mark Ferber), Fables (featuring Seamus Blake, Orlando le Fleming and Johnathan Blake) and two duo albums with guitarist Lage Lund, Nightsong and Hide The Moon and the Stars.    Roberts has toured with his own groups, including festival, radio and club appearances across the USA, Canada, the UK, Spain and Japan with some of the world’s finest musicians: Matt Penman, Jochen Rueckert, Rodney Green, Joe Martin, Jaleel Shaw, Johnathan Blake, Mark Ferber, Quincy Davis, Ira Coleman and Tommy Crane. As a sideman he has performed with saxophonists Seamus Blake, Jon Gordon and Will Vinson, Grammy-nominated trombonist Alan Ferber, legendary bassist Chuck Israels, and vocalists Shoshana Bean and Caity Gyorgy, amongst many others.   In addition to his work in jazz and improvised music, Roberts has played and toured with many artists in the singer-songwriter world, including Grammy award winners Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal, Shawn Colvin, Stax records legend William Bell and folk icon Dar Williams.   www.bryn-roberts.com