Roberta Piket, born on August 9, 1966, in Queens, New York City, is an American jazz pianist, singer, composer, and author. She studied computer science at Tufts University and music at the New England Conservatory, and also received private lessons from Fred Hersch, Stanley Cowell, Jim McNeely, Bob Moses, and Richie Beirach. She won 2nd prize at the 1993 Thelonious Monk-BMI Composers’ Competition. Following recordings with artists including Lionel Hampton, she released her debut album Unbroken Line in 1997, featuring Michael Formanek, Scott Wendholt, and Donny McCaslin. As a composer, she created music for the Nabokov Project, setting five poems by Vladimir Nabokov for piano, violin, mezzo-soprano, and percussion. In 2011, she appeared on Marian McPartland’s NPR radio program Piano Jazz.
