"Robin Goldsby has a singular and life-embracing voice." Bill Brent, Author's Den

"Goldsby's tales are often laugh-out loud funny, sometimes poignant, and always abundantly human." Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com

Robin Meloy Goldsby composes songs, plays the piano and writes books about music. Fans describe her melodies—and her stories—as peaceful, inspirational, and magical.
Robin grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Chatham College before moving to New York City in 1980. She performed for over ten years in many of New York City's leading hotels. Her credits include The Grand Hyatt, The Plaza, The Pierre, The Waldorf Astoria , and The Sheraton Centre. Robin is known for her solo piano performances at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel where she played the 1985 grand opening and spent the next seven years cultivating her skills and captivating diverse audiences with her unique style.

In 1994, Goldsby released her solo recording debut of standards and popular classics, Somewhere In Time. Goldsby's arrangements, honed over the years during her tenure as a hotel pianist in New York are "the most beautiful and unique arrangements of these songs I’ve ever heard" according to producer/pianist Robin Spielberg.

Shortly after the release of Somewhere in Time, Goldsby moved to Cologne, Germany, with her husband, jazz bassist John Goldsby. Over the course of several years (in between studying German and raising their two small children), Goldsby composed fifteen original compositions for solo piano. When it came time to record the work, Goldsby called on Robin Spielberg, who not only produced Goldsby's debut release, but who has recorded thirteen albums of her own piano music, selling over 400,000 units in the USA. Twilight was recorded in Cologne, Germany at Topaz Studios.

Twilight contains songs inspired by Robin Goldsby's journey to Europe (“One Woman's Journey”), the birth of her daughter (“The Light In Julia's Eyes”), romance (When Stars Dance”), and loneliness (“Miss You Most of All”) The three-movement piano suite, “Nantucket Solitude” is dedicated to the memory of Fred Rogers—known to most Americans as Mister Rogers—a family friend and the employer of Robin’s father, Bob Rawsthorne, a musician who played drums and percussion on the Mister Rogers Neighborhood show for 35 years. The Twilight CD package includes a sixteen page two-language booklet (English-German) with Goldsby's poetic musings and stories about her compositions.

Songs from the Castle is Robin's newest solo piano recording. A collection of eleven new compositions and several beautiful standards, Songs from the Castle mingles Robin’s graceful melodies with the artistic and relaxed arrangements that have become her trademark. Songs from the Castle pays tribute to the places Robin once dreamed about, and to Schloss Lerbach, the European castle where she currently performs

Robin Goldsby also writes lyrics and composes music for other performers. She writes with European jazz phenomenon singer/guitarist Peter Fessler, a collaboration that has thus far produced two beautiful CDs (Blue Summer and Landscape Tapestry), released by Skip Records in Germany. Currently, Robin continues her work with Peter Fessler, in addition to penning lyrics for American Jane Franklin (Fairgrounds),  Brazilian jazz star Joyce, German R&B sensation Jeff Cascaro (Soul of a Singer), and Till Broenner, who produced and co-wrote (with Robin) the Curtis Stigers song, "Christmas is Never" forl The Christmas Album (Universal).

Hobo and the Forest Fairies is Goldsby’s holiday musical for children. Written originally for the stage, it was adapted for broadcast as a radio play, translated into German by Katja Bröcher, and produced by the WDR (Europe’s largest public television and radio production house) for broadcast on Christmas day, 2003. The musical–the story of a giant rabbit rescued by a rag-tag family of forest fairies, one of whom is wheelchair bound– is a comical and touching tribute to the power of a child’s imagination.

Piano Girl (Backbeat Books) Goldsby’s first book, made its hardcover debut in spring, 2005. A giddy mixture of droll hilarity and pathos, Piano Girl is an entertaining and enlightening memoir of music and life as a cocktail pianist. The book provides a rare glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the player’s side of the grand piano.

Piano Girl received a prestigious “starred review” from Publishers Weekly and was honored as one of the picks of the summer by Book Sense, the leading organization representing independent bookstores in the United States. Goldsby’s many radio appearances include NPR’s All Things Considered, The Leonard Lopate Show in New York City, The Mark Farrell Show on CD 101.9, and several appearances on Marian McPartland’s NPR Piano Jazz. Piano Girl is now available—world-wide—in paperback.

Goldsby's long awaited fiction debut, RHYTHM: A Novel is now available in both hardcover and paperback. Told in the voice of drummer Jane Bowman—Rhythm traces a young musician’s artistic and emotional development over the course of fifteen years, as she builds her career and learns to cope with her mother’s death. With humor and passion, the heartwarming story reveals the tragic beauty of human resilience, the restorative power of love and laughter, and the way one girl’s music—steady, solid, and courageous—helps to mend her shattered heart. 

Robin also performs live, in a variety of settings. Her recent performances have included a reading and concert in the rotunda at Steinway Hall in Manhattan, a performance at the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival, a reading for the American Women’s Club at the Bechstein Concert Hall in Cologne Germany, and an Advent Concert in Candlelight at Schlosshotel Lerbach, a beautiful castle resting in the hills of Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, where she appears regularly.

Robin Meloy Goldsby is a Steinway Artist.

Robin lives with her family outside of Cologne, Germany. She and her husband John have two spirited children.

Listen to Robin's interview on NPR All Things Considered, Weekend Edition

Listen to Robin on the Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC