THE MEMBERS OF
LEE ROBINSON and the UNSPUNT ORKESTRA ARE;
RICHARD GARTNER--DRUMS , PERCUSSION
ROGER DAY-- TUBA
GORDON KIRKWOOD-- CELLO
LEE ROBINSON-- TENOR, SOPRANO SAXOPHONES
|LEE ROBINSON
SAXOPHONIST / COMPOSER
2750 Locust Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15241
(724) 969- 4308
COLDRIX@HOTMAIL.COM
LEE ROBINSON
Leader of groups Lee Robinson and ISKA from 1979; the UnSpunt Orkestra
2001 and co-member of the duo I \ O from 1996.
Noted Performances Featured soloist for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with Choir
Black
History Month Sermon , 2003 Featured soloist for Pittsburgh- Saitama Sister City
dinner ceremony,
both Honorable Mayors and respective Council Members in attendance.
2002 Honered
Performer for Black History Month, City of Pittsburgh , Mayor as
Opening Speaker, 2002.
Opening performer
for The Sabir Mateen Quintet , 2002. Honorable Mention Award
John Lennon
Songwiting Competetion , Childrens
Song
Category 2000
Opening performer for Ernst Reijsinger and The Maurice McIntyre Gro up,
2001.
Featured soloist at the annual Waynesurg College GNP Concert 1997- 2003
The Russian Tea Room, New York, for the Greater Pittsburgh Convention
and
Visitors Bureau with Lee Robinson and ISKA, 2001, 2000.
Saitama / Pittsburgh Sister City Cultural Exchange with ravish Momin in
Duo
I \ O, 2000.
Soloist and Music coordinator for burial ceremonies for the late jazz
saxophonist Stanley Turrentine , 2000
Concert Performances and Workshops
Slippery Rock University-PA; Waynesburg College, Pa; Wilkinsburg High
School; Carnegie –Mellon Univesity; Allegheny Dept. of Cultural
Programming;
University of Pittsburgh,
Johnstown,PA; Shadyside Arts Festival; The Dance Alloy; Three Rivers
Arts
Festival; The Thomas Merton Center sponsored Rock Against Racism;
Mellon
Jazz Festival ;Olgeby Stifile Art Center, Olgeby, WVA; Opening Group
for The
Stanley Clark Band
Associated Musicians in Group Performances
Geri Allen, Mark Polishook, Leonard Johnson, pianists; Jimmy McGriff,
Richard "Groove" Holmes, organists;Rodger Humphries, Cecil Brooks III,
Greg
Humphries, Ravish Momin, drsummer percussionists, Dawayne Dolphin, Paul
Thompson, bassists.
Theaters Clubs and Restaurants Several , 1967- Present
Recordings
Motif – Lee Robinson and ISKA, Live at The Balcony Restaurant, 1988,
Pittsburgh, PA.
I \ O –in progress
Rhea Harmsen , Poet – in progress
Lee Robinson and Piano – in progress
Lee Robinson SOLO – in progress
Composer
Lee Robinson Composes original music for film, CD- Rom, theater and
dance.
PBS documentary, JOBS:A Way Out ; David a theater documentary; I Dream
A
World , Black History through drama; The Black Raven , independent
suspense
, horror film; With Abandon, an independent film; several radio
educational
and CD –Rom projects.