Robert Emery

He was also the conductor, director and orchestrator of the Lovebugs/Basel Symphony concerts and the director and orchestrator of the Seven/21st Century Orchestra concerts, both of which were co-produced by one of Emery's businesses, Arts Festivals Ltd.

He is also known for conducting and playing bare-foot.

Robert Emery (born 22 March 1983) is an English pianist, conductor, music producer and orchestrator.

He was born in Pelsall in the West Midlands (UK), began playing the piano as a child, and became known after performing with major artists, including Russell Watson, Meat Loaf, and Stewart Copeland, whilst conducting bare-footed.

Robert Emery (born 22 March 1983) is an English pianist, conductor and orchestrator.

He started playing the piano at the age of seven.

Soon he studied with renowned piano professor Heather Slade-Lipkin and won the RBC Concerto competition at age 11 and won the Regional BBC Young Musician competition twice over, as well as reaching the last and best ten pianists in the BBC Young Musician competition.

Robert then studied piano at the Royal College of Music with Ruth Nye a pupil of the famed Claudio Arrau and conducting with Neil Thomson, a pupil of the renowned Leonard Bernstein.

Since making his London debut when he was thirteen, he has performed internationally as a recitalist and conductor.

Robert Emery first promoted himself as a young pianist, touring the UK twice aged 18 and 19.

He was a guest soloist at the Red Cross Gala Ball at the Guildhall, London.

He was also the conductor for a nationwide tour of Milkshake!

Live with the British Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has been the Associate Musical Supervisor for the world premieres of Dallebach Kari das Musical, Gotthelf das Musical, Der Besuch der Alten Dame das Musical; all in Switzerland.

In 2013, he worked with the writers of Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil) to produce Watson's album, Only One Man.

2014 saw Emery work in Los Angeles for the year, including producing the music and performing at the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) Awards.

One of the tracks performed, written by the multi-platinum writer Donnie Demers and performed by Carly Paoli, was a requiem to Anya Niedringhaus.

Emery also worked with Paula Abdul for the event.

In 2015, Emery went on tour with Britain's Got Talent star, Jonathan Antoine, performing in venues across the UK.

Later that year, he conducted the Military Wives Choir at the National Television Awards broadcast live on ITV from London’s o2 arena.

Three days later, he conducted at the Llangollen Eisteddfod with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Emery was also invited to conduct Taiwanese Singer Ji Xiaojun at the Taipei Arena.

In 2017, he performed with Meat Loaf in Toronto, Canada, in front of 25,000 people.

In the same year, his first musical as a composer was premiered at a purpose-built theatre on the Rheinfall in Switzerland.

With a budget of two million francs, Anna Göldi das Musical.

He also produced Joanna Forest's first album, 'Stars Are Rising'.

The album shot straight to number one in the Classical Charts.

Together with composer Moritz Schneider, he also composed, produced and conducted the next album from the Swiss singer, SEVEN.

The album 4Colors was released on 7 July 2017.

In 2017 Emery worked on the Bat out of Hell musical.

He was made Musical Director and Associate Musical Supervisor of the show, which premiered at the London Coliseum in the summer, following previews at Manchester Opera House earlier in the year.

He also took the show to Toronto, Canada to perform at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

In 2018, Emery was Musical Director and Associate Musical Supervisor for the West End production of Bat Out Of Hell The Musical.

Emery went into the studio with the Arts Symphonic Orchestra and Arts Voices to record the second album for classical crossover artist Joanna Forest.

'The Rhythm of Life' was recorded at Angel Studios and featured vocals by Forest, Paul Potts and Andy Day.

In 2019 and 2021, he conducted a nationwide tour of NOW That's What I Call Christmas featuring Kerry Ellis and John Owen-Jones.

In 2020, Emery orchestrated and conducted the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra for a 4D experience film called Rubia.

Emery did not perform for the rest of 2020 due to Covid.

In 2021, he conducted a nationwide tour in the UK of The Best of John Williams with the London Concert Orchestra and the Manchester Concert Orchestra.

Also in 2021, he produced and presented an online TV series called Classical Connections with Robert Emery.