Pianist, composer, singer and songwriter Robin Holcomb has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia as a solo artist and the leader of various ensembles.  Recent performances include appearances at Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Carnegie Hall, The Verona Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Festival of Perth, DuMaurier Jazz Festivals and Arts at St. Ann’s.

A Nonesuch recording artist, her most recent release is The Big Time (2002), a collection of original songs and arrangements of traditional American songs.  Little Three (1996) is a solo recording of a piano music and songs.  Two previous CDs, Rockabye and Robin Holcomb are critically acclaimed collections of original songs.  Earlier recordings of instrumental music include Larks, They Crazy and Todos Santos, both on the German Sound Aspects label.  Recent recording projects include collaborations with Bill Frisell on his Nashville recording, and contributions to Burt Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg tribute compilations for the Tzadik label.

Ms. Holcomb is a founder and co-director of The New York Composers Orchestra, an ensemble for which she is also a conductor, pianist and principal composer.  First Program in Standard Time and The New York Composers Orchestra, both on New World Records, document this work.

In addition to creating the score for the Joe Goode Performance Group’s Bessie Award-winning Deeply There, Ms. Holcomb has also been commissioned by The Bebe Miller Dance Company for the score for Tiny Sisters In The Enormous Land.  Her music was featured in The White Oak Dance Company’s Oz, choreographed by Paul Taylor.  Ms. Holcomb created the score for the PBS documentary “A Woman’s Health”, and contributed music to the Huchoosedeh, Voices of the Heart documentary.  She has composed music for various theatrical and film productions, including Nikki Appino’s Project X: Before the Comet Comes (Seattle/2003) and her own Angels at the Four Corners, premiered at the New Music America Festival at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City.

Her work has been called "remarkable" (CMJ), "stunning" (Option), "entrancing" (Billboard) and "sensitive, descriptive, adventuresome and full of soul" (Washington Post.)  The New York Times had this to say about her difficult-to-define musical style:  "Robin Holcomb...has created a new American regionalism, spun from many threads - country, rock, minimalism, Civil War songs, Baptist hymns, Appalachian folk tunes, even the polytonal music of Charles Ives.  The music that results is as elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful."