Rory Stitt offers a musical experience born of an incestuous affair between blues, classical, cabaret, jazz and pop. His performances are intimate and direct, supercharged with dynamic vocals and ritualized piano riffs that conjure up themes of attraction, passion, fatal love, humor and hope.Born and raised in Alaska, Rory is part of the reemerging trend of music school dropouts turned singer/songwriters. From classical roots springs pop music with long melodies ala Rufus Wainright, poetic license ala Tori Amos and androgynous soul ala Bowie and Lennox. Enough hooks to catch your interest and enough levels to listen again and again, this is music to fall down the rabbit hole to.
Rory’s songs reveal the thoughts beneath the talk, the unspoken dialogues between loved ones, strangers and self. From Broadway and Rachmaninoff to Victorian salons and saloon piano, his music sets inner life on a stage. He draws on his work as an actor, composer and arranger to create this theatre-pop.
Rory performs around the country in intimate venues with his piano, known as the piano animal, he has become well known for the transformational and hyopnotic nature of his solo performances.