Bob Gluck is a pianist, composer and performer of music for live electronic music systems and interactive sound installation. His repertoire spans jazz performance integrating electronics and free improvisation, avant-garde concert music and music for electronic expansions of acoustical instruments, including the shofar (ram's horn, Disklavier (computer-assisted piano) and Turkish baglama saz. His installation works include Layered Histories (2004), an immersive sound and video environment with Cynthia Rubin, and Sounds of a Community (2001-2002). Gluck's work has been performed and shown internationally. His recordings include Stories Heard and Retold (1998), Electric Songs (2003), Electric Brew (2007), and The Bob Gluck Trio's Sideways (2008).

Bob is also a historical researcher. His interests include the development of electronic music beyond North American and Europe, and the intersection of jazz and creative music with electronics. His essays have been published in Leonardo Music Journal, Organized Sound, Computer Music Journal, Journal SEAMUS, Leonardo, Living Music Journal, The Reconstructionist, Tav+, the EMF Institute, and on the Web.

Gluck's musical training is from the Julliard, Manhattan, and Crane schools of music, the State University of New York at Albany (BA, 1977) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (MFA, 2001). He has also studied at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work (MSW, 1984) and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Title of Rabbi and MHL, 1989).

Bob Gluck is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studio at The University at Albany, and an affiliate faculty member in the Judaic Studies Department. He also teaches courses in the Africana Studies Department. Gluck serves as Associate Director For Publications at the Electronic Music Foundation and as Executive Editor (with Joel Chadabe) of the EMF Institute, a web-based virtual museum documenting the history of the field.