Robert Kinkel

Composer, keyboardist, orchestral arranger and co-producer from New York (NY, USA). Best known as Bob Kinkel. He has a Bachelor degree in composition, piano and organ at Hamilton College. In the early 80ties he worked at Record Plant Studios (New York, NY, USA) and composed lots of jingles and adverts. Than he start working with the symphonic heavy metal band Savatage and collaborated with them at nearly every album. In 1986 he started writing music with Paul O'Neill and Jon Oliva and Trans-Siberian Orchestra was founded.