Bob Lipton was born and raised in New Jersey. He attended San Francisco State
University for a BA in Music and was named the outstanding musical
graduate.
Bob teaches music at Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino. Bob has
performed with many of the local symphonies such as Coastal Valley, Santa
Rosa, Napa, Oakland, Monterey, San Jose, California, Fremont, Vallejo,
Marin and Berkeley. Bob was a member of Bel Canto Brass, San Francisco
Brassworks, and the San Francisco Forty Niners Band, and played with the
California Shakespeare Company, Klezmermania, the New Vaudeville Festival,
and the Indian Academy Awards in Bombay.
He has recorded and toured with
the eclectic bands Clubfoot Orchestra and Kamikaze Ground Crew, playing at
the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Frankfurt Jazz Festival in Germany,
and the New Music America Festival in New York City. Bob was a member of
Tom Petty's high school rock and roll band — after Tom left the group. He is currently a
member of Kaila Flexer's Fieldharmonik.
Bob joined the Menlo Brass Quintet in 1993.
Email: blipton@menlobrass.com |
