Rob Mathes

There is a particular kind of musician the greatest artists in the world turn to when the stakes are highest — when a Super Bowl performance has to be perfect, when a Broadway score has to work on the first night, when a film needs an orchestra to make an audience feel something they cannot name. Rob Mathes is that musician. Bruce Springsteen has called him his "secret weapon." Sting calls him his "lion" in the studio. And for more than three decades, from Abbey Road to Carnegie Hall to the stages of Modena, Italy, Mathes has been the quiet force behind some of the most celebrated musical moments of our time.