"He`s going to be a singer!" said the moyel when Robert was eight days old. It took about eight more years, but the moyel was right, and Robert`s been singing ever since. As a child and teenager, Robert studied voice and acting and performed in television commercials and musical theater productions in New York and New England. His introduction to barbershop music was at college in the 80`s, where he sang lead with MIT`s Logarhythms . Moving to California to be an engineer at Apple, Robert joined the Barbershop Harmony Society, while also performing as an "actlete" in the early years of ComedySportz San Jose. Prior to FWD championship quartet Q, Robert sang in 1999 NorCal West novice quartet champion Ringleader, and 2002 NorCal West champion quartet Out of the Box. After Q, Robert was the lead of 2018 FWD 3rd place finalist Dynamix, 2019 FWD Senior Quartet champion Over The Line, and currently sings lead in 2025 International Seniors medalist quartet Private Reserve.

Besides barbershop, Robert competed at the 2010 Bay Area Harmony Sweepstakes in the five-part mixed jazz ensemble Vocalicious and is currently a second tenor with the Pops Chorale, an eighty-person chorus that sings eight-part harmony in elaborately-staged concerts with orchestra and dancers.

Robert was an assistant director of the Palo Alto-Mountain View chapter of BHS, and has been a performance judge at novice quartet contests and a quartet coach at Harmony Camp, Harmony College West, and the Sacramento Area Quartet Workshops. He runs his own insurance agency and lives in Shingle Springs with wife Nancy and their twins. Robert`s favorite performances were 1) playing Tony in West Side Story with the Sunnyvale Community Players; 2) singing the national anthem with Q at an Oakland A`s game ("There were thirty thousand fans in the stands that day and they were all on their feet!"); and 3) proposing to Nancy in a Valentine`s Day quartet.