ROBERT WATSON — keyboards

a Surfari since1993

Robert began his musical life as a composer/pianist prodigy at age 6. Under the diverse influences of a musical family, Robert set an eclectic course (which he maintains to this day) that led him to play regularly with rock bands AND classical ensembles.

From the beginning, his primary goal has been to excel as a film composer. But his list of accomplishments includes this and a whole lot more...

In the late ‘80's-early ‘90's, Robert found himself in demand as a session keyboardist, album producer, music director and sideman for dozens of artists and groups, including Donna Summer, The Platters, Daniel Amos, Tonio K., and the Swirling Eddies. He also worked on a number of projects with Paul Johnson during this time, which led to his induction into the Surfaris band.

Robert's film music career began to take off in the mid ‘90's after he won a prestigious BMI Scholarship for the study of film composing at UCLA Extension. This led to numerous credits for television and film, including the feature films Pokemon 2000, Pokemon III, Viscious Circle and others, plus the A&E biography The Unknown Jesus and numerous film festival short subjects. He conducted for segments of Star Trek Voyager and The Simpsons and orchestrated a number of Star Trek Enterprise episodes. He is currently composing and editing music for the hit cartoon series, Catscratch.

Robert lives in Eagle Rock, CA with his wife, recording artist Carolee Mayne.