Guitarist and composer Robert Windbiel has written for chamber ensembles, jazz and blues groups, vocalists and pop bands. In summing up this eclectic history, Windbiel simply dubs himself an “American Melodist.” Recent works include Danger Invites Rescue – I Call It Loving: A James Tate Cabaret-Art Song Cycle, PPCT Suite for Pied Piper Children’s Theatre of Inwood (for saxophone, electric guitar and piano), Perpetual Motion/Postlude (for tuned percussion quartet), Bob Windbiel Plays Music for Lovers and Other Strangers (a series of songs without words for electric guitar, bass and drums) and You Look Like a God Sitting There: A James Tate Cabaret-Art Song Cycle. As a performer, he has scored successes with both the Sorgen/Rust/Windbiel 
trio’s Outlet (released on the legendary jazz label ESP-Disk) and his own indie-pop-rock band, Marcel Monroe, which charted nationally on college radio with its releases Love Is Not and Framed. He has also performed and recorded with Patrick Grant, Leslie Nuchow, Joe Giardullo, Walter Thompson, Harvey Sorgen, Steve Rust, Shlomo Gronich and Lisa Hogan. Windbiel has studied guitar with Barry Finnerty, piano with Samuel Aster and composition with Lawrence Widdoes. He has been the recipient of Meet the Composer grants 
and his discography as a guitarist runs to ten releases. In 2007, after going back to school for a music teaching degree, he received the John Corigliano Composition Scholarship at Lehman College in the Bronx. A native New Yorker, Windbiel lives in Manhattan with his wife, the singer and energy-healer Kimberley Jean, and their two children Bix and Genevieve.