Bob Schleeter is a veteran of music performance, creation and education. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his passion for music has led to study and performance throughout the US and in many centers of world music, including Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, Spain and Greece. Private teachers include Hal Crook, Peter Sprague, Chuck Wayne, and John Scofield; clinic work includes study with Mel Martin, J.B. Dyas, Joe Pass, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Bob's creative work includes collaboration with New England actor, director and playwright Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on four original contemporary musicals, including Sara’s Jukebox , called by the Boston Globe “ a hit, tantalizingly diverse, yet widely appealing.” In 2008 he produced a collection of recordings from their show The Spirit Warrior's Dream that features rising SF Bay Area star Greg Scott and nine-time Grammy winner Tony Lindsay.

Schleeter has performed extensively with his own jazz, soul, rock and blues ensembles and has seen short stints with artists such as Shana Morrison, Del Shannon, The Drifters, John Davidson, Clarence Bell (Stevie Wonder alum), and Hal Crook.

A 1989 graduate of Berklee College of Music, Bob is currently the Music Director at Marin Academy in San Rafael, California, where he has enjoyed some small part in developing a parade of extraordinary young talent since 1990.