LTCL Concert: Bob Schneider Sr.
Join us for live music Fridays at the Lake Travis Community Library this summer! Bob Schneider Sr. has decades of experience performing in major opera companies. He will perform opera arias and selections from well–known musicals like South Pacific.
About Bob Schneider Sr:
“Bob Schneider Sr. is a treasure and one of the incredible talents in Austin who make us the Live Music Capital of the World,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “Robert L. Schneider has a world-class operatic bass voice,” added award-winning music journalist Valerie Venice. “He is one of Austin’s most important cultural figures who brings opera to a new generation.”
Robert L. Schneider, (A.K.A. Bob Schneider Sr.), has been a professional opera singer for 50 years. He has sung leading bass roles as a member of major opera companies in Germany, Michigan and Texas including Ann Arbor Opera, El Paso Opera, and the German Opera companies Luebecker Oper, Detmolder Oper, and Bremerhavener Oper, in addition to guest appearances on various stages. In addition, he holds a Masters of Arts degree in Vocal Performance and has Doctoral studies in Voice/Opera in both Munich, Germany and at The University of Texas at Austin.
Bob is on the Board of Directors of Gilbert & Sullivan Austin, is a member of the Austin Opera Guild, and is the Founding Director of the Briarcliff Players, a community opera company based in Briarcliff, TX.
Schneider coordinates and performs with the Wand’ring Minstrels, the educational and community outreach arm of Gilbert & Sullivan Austin, an organization dedicated to spreading the joys of Gilbert & Sullivan through education and performance of the works of Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
As both an opera singer and voice teacher, Bob brings a passion for excellence to every production he performs in, or directs, and to every student he works with. Bob teaches voice studies at the Harmony School of Creative Arts in Marble Falls, TX.
