![The NYU Contemporary Music ensemble featuring strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion perform live music synchronized with a film projected on a large screen](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_500_x_281/public/2022-11/Concert3.jpeg?h=aef70387&itok=erm6M7Ze)
![Robert Reale](/sites/default/files/styles/nyu_profile_image/public/2023-09/DF10AE71-8E98-47B3-8267-90ABD9837D6D_4_5005_c.jpeg?h=78c06cc7&itok=u9ntjM3Y)
Shortly after graduating music school and several years touring in jazz and rock bands, Rob moved to New York in the mid-80’s where he responded to a demand for authentic, hi-end music for film and television and founded the production music library, 8118 Music. He gigged in clubs and pits off-Broadway and also began collaborating with his brother Willie creating musical theater. They are a winning combination: Rob provides the music, Willie, the words. They had several Off-Broadway successes before their production, A Year With Frog and Toad brought them to Broadway and garnered Rob a Tony nomination for Best Original Score Music.
Currently teaching:
MPATC-GE 2321: Private Lessons