Robert Papacica Quartet

Name: Robert Papacica Quartet
Start: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-05T23:00:00-07:00
Location: The Grape

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Grape | Ventura, CA

Advanced Tickets $20GA/$30 Front Row Seating here
$25/$35 at the door (subject to availability)
Robert Papacica- guitar
Logan Kane- bass
Miles Lennox- piano
Rodolfo Zuniga- drums
Robert Papacica is an award winning composer, educator, and musician originally from
Toronto, Canada. Robert has appeared as a sideman in jazz clubs in Miami, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Vancouver, Seattle, and New York.
As a leader, Robert is part of the Ark Trio which features Keshav Batish on Drums and
Anthony Paolini on Saxophone. The band released their debut record in April 2022. More
recently, Robert released a new trio project entitled Reverse Migration featuring Kanoa
Mendenhal on bass and Mark Ferber on drums through the New York City based Pinch Record
Label. He regularly plays with his quartet featuring his own original music in New York and in
jazz clubs across the United States.
As a sideman, Robert has appeared Orlando Madrid’s From This Moment Forward
featuring GRAMMY award winning trumpet player Mike Rodriguez. He can also be heard on
BMI William Goldstein award recipient Adam Claussen’s record entitled Arethusa Falls. He has
also appeared on Gary Meek's 2021 release, Monterey Groove, which features Airto Moreiera,
Dave Weckl, Flora Purim, Michael Lent, among others.
Robert Papacica began playing guitar at the age of 10 and started playing local gigs at age
15 in the California Bay Area. He was a member of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center education
program, the SFJazz High School All Star Big Band, and a Young Arts Jazz awardee in high
school. He is also an alumni of the International Association of Schools of Jazz 2019 led by Dave
Liebman in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2022, Robert received an outstanding graduate student soloist
award from Downbeat Magazine and was selected to be a part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead
Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. under the direction of Jason Moran.
As an alumnus of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, Robert was a
member of the Concert Jazz Band where he played alongside acclaimed guitarist and composer
Adam Rogers, as well as GRAMMY award winning artists such as Dafnis Prieto and John
Daversa. Robert can also be heard on acclaimed composer and jazz professor Clint Bleil’s album.
He has studied under many notable artists and teachers such as Peter Bernstein, John
Scofield, John Hart, Bruce Forman, Alan Ferber, Brad Shepik, Billy Drewes, Brian Lynch, Julian
Lage, Pat Kelley, Gary Meek, and Adam Rogers.
Robert currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where he preforms and is an educator for
Third Street Music Settlement and Jazz Empowers, a non-profit organization providing jazz
education to the New York School System. He also has taught as an adjunct guitar instructor at
the NYU Steinhardt School.