Rob Sbar is an accomplished composer, arranger, conductor and guitar virtuoso who blends contemporary classical, modern, classic and avant-garde forms of jazz and fusion, rock, along with chromatic and post-tonal forms, presenting a cumulative sensory and arts experience.
Aggregate Recordings-Music for Film, Television, Games and Multimedia composes original music for various media, including film, television, advertising, video games, jingles, commercials, documentaries, promotional videos, dance, concert performances (solo pieces to full orchestra), corporate productions, interactive and other multimedia sources.
We work with a variety of musical styles, including rock, jazz, pop, acoustic, blues, contemporary classical (solo, chamber and orchestral), hip-hop, dance/techno/electronica, progressive, fusion, among others.
Discography
Discography:
Wagon Wheels and Atom Bombs - Aggregate Recordings
Shawn Lane Remembered Volume II - Lion Music
Fret-Essential ..1 Guitar Compilation - Quintessence Metal Webzine
Virtuoso Music Compilation - Thai.net-Virtuoso
Higher And Higher-A Tribute To The Moody Blues - Mellow Records
A Tribute to Santana-Guitars Dancing In The Light (upcoming)- Mellow Records
Rob Sbar is a proud endorsee of Seymour Duncan pickups, Morley pedals,
Madison Amps, Curt Mangan strings and Neck Sock.
*ASCAP affiliated composer and publisher (Rob Sbar Music)
Credits and Awards
CREDITS
Examples of our commissions:
• United Way advertising campaign, Because Of You, aired on radio
and television. Wrote, arranged and performed original music and lyrics.
• Sirens, the music for a modern dance piece collaboration with celebrated
choreographer Julia Ritter. Composed, conducted and performed a blend of
jazz, classical and contemporary music for a large ensemble.
• A Mosaic of Cement and Barbed Wire, a modern composition for Renaissance
lute, performed at the Sarah Lawrence Summer Guitar Institute.
• Like Giants Through a Keyhole, trio for flute cello and piano, was
performed as part of the CROSS-CURRENTS IN JAZZ AND NEW MUSIC: The School and Schooling of Stefan Wolpe series presented by the Network for New Music in cooperation with the Stefan Wolpe Society.
• Aerial Surveying, a solo piano piece, performed at the June in Buffalo
Festival for Emerging Composers held in Buffalo, New York, by renowned
pianist Marilyn Nonken. Rob Sbar was selected among an exclusive group of
young composers worldwide to participate.
AWARDS
• Wagon Wheels and Atom Bombs was also placed on critic David Cisco's list
of Top 10 CDs of 2002.
• Rob Sbar was a Top 5 Finalist in the 2006 North American Rock Guitar
Competition, in Buffalo, New York, presented by Guitar Player magazine and Gibson guitars.
• The Rob Sbar Noesis was inducted as a new member into the 2007 Independent Artist Registry.
Rob Sbar is a proud endorsee of Seymour Duncan pickups, Morley pedals,
Madison Amps, Curt Mangan strings and Neck Sock.
*ASCAP affiliated composer and publisher (Rob Sbar Music)
Aggregate Recordings
Aggregate Recordings-Music for Film, Television, Games and Multimedia
We compose original music for various media, including film, television, advertising, video games, jingles, commercials, documentaries, promotional videos, dance, concert performances (solo pieces to full orchestra), corporate productions, interactive and other multimedia sources.
We work with a variety of musical styles, including rock, jazz, pop, acoustic, blues, contemporary classical (solo, chamber and orchestral), hip-hop, dance/techno/electronica, progressive, fusion, among others.
Services include original music, compositions and songwriting, from short loops to full-length feature film scores, as well as licensing our previously written music. Clients can choose from a vast library of quality tracks in a variety of styles and genre.
http://www.aggregaterecordings.com
Contact us at:
info@aggregaterecordings.com
917-623-0432
Rob Sbar-Composer/Guitarist
Rob Sbar is an accomplished composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist who blends contemporary classical, modern, classic and avant-garde forms of jazz and fusion, rock, along with chromatic and post-tonal forms, presenting a cumulative sensory and arts experience.
Rob resides in New York City. He began composing and performing professionally at age 16, doing session work, teaching and performing as part of Philadelphia’s alternative and indie rock scene. He established himself among the top composers/arrangers and guitarists in the local scene. Already a well-known artist, Rob attended the National Guitar Summer Workshop, New Milford, Connecticut, where he attended master classes with guitar icons Vinnie Moore, Stanley Jordan and Mick Goodrick.
Rob received a Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude in jazz guitar and composition/arranging at Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music.
Rob received a Masters of Arts degree in music composition at Rutgers University, studying with world renowned, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen. Rob also studied guitar privately with Shrapnel recording artist Greg Howe and Lasers Edge recording artist Scott McGill.
In September of 2002, Rob released his debut CD, Wagon Wheels and Atom Bombs, on Aggregate Recordings with his band The Rob Sbar Noesis, a virtuosic rock/fusion instrumental guitar-based trio that blends avant-garde and experimental forms of composition within a context of dynamic rock performances. The CD is also distributed by Fossil Records and Mellow Records (Italy). Wagon Wheels and Atom Bombs has received wide critical acclaim from such reviewers as Mike Sandomirsky who said: "Music creativity just got a kick in the ass his name is Rob Sbar. Fusion meets Jazz Rock with a heavy heaping of Prog elements all grace this superb first release from one of the world's truly creative musical innovators. Rob Sbar is one of the most unusual guitar instrumental composers ever to grace our presence. Not since Vai or Gambale has there been such extraordinary sounds produced from the electric guitar. This entire CD should send out a shock wave of epic proportions to all musician/guitarists worldwide. Rob Sbar has transcended from somewhere not of this earth delivering one eclectic mix of beautifully strange and enjoyable tunes a masterpiece of originality and technical prowess!"
Critic MJ Brady wrote of Rob Sbar: "Imagine Zappa having actually learned modern fretwork techniques from his one time kid stunt guitarist Stevie Vai, and creating a guitar driven CD of instrumental music inspired by Beefheart." He went on to write, "This CD ventures far beyond the stigmas attached to virtuoso electric guitarists', so much so, that it really has little in common with the cluster of fretboard gymnasts that are being stamped out of the GIT factories everywhere. Rob Sbar, has much more depth of thought than to fall into such a convenient trap, his affinity for a
sinister-minded creative approach makes this CD a very enjoyable piece for your aural, visual, and cerebral pleasure."
Rob’s interviews and features in publications and websites worldwide include 20th Century Guitar, Guitar Chef (Italy), Guitar Mania (Canada), Instrumental Case and many others. The Rob Sbar Noesis has also appeared on guitar-oriented compilation CDs such as Wretched Productions/Quintessence Metal Webzines "Fret-Essential" Guitar Compilation CD and Virtuoso Music Compilation CD presented by Thai.net-Virtuoso. The Rob Sbar Noesis contributed a track titled Transfiguring Perceptions to the Shawn Lane Remembered Volume II CD, Lion Music; a track to Higher And Higher -A Tribute To The Moody Blues CD; and the upcoming A Tribute to Santana - Guitars Dancing In The Light CD, Mellow Records.
Rob Sbar is a proud endorsee of Seymour Duncan pickups, Morley pedals,
Madison Amps, Curt Mangan strings and Neck Sock.
*ASCAP affiliated composer and publisher (Rob Sbar Music)