Born in Great Britain in 1983, Robert Scamardella began to improvise and play the piano at the age of only four. At twelve, he was awarded a scholarship to study with celebrated British concert pianist Lucy Parham for five years at the Guildhall School of Music. Whilst there he was a prizewinner in all the major competitions as well as receiving prestigious scholarships and bursaries from the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, The Ann Driver Trust and The Musicas Fund, amongst others.

He continued his studies with Senior Professor Joan Havill at the Guildhall School, coming to national attention on becoming a piano finalist in the 2002 BBC ‘Young Musician of the Year’. He was subsequently interviewed and featured in BBC Classical Music magazine and ‘Muso’ magazine. Other prizes whilst at the Guildhall included the 2005 Lescek Dessent Prize for outstanding performances of Chopin; the Professional Recital Prize at the Oxford International Music Festival and prizewinner at the inaugural Norah Sande Award for Young Pianists in 2006. He completed both a Masters degree in Music in the same year and a Masters degree in Music Performance as a Guildhall Artist in 2007.

In recent years, he was selected for the MBF Music Education and Myra Hess Trust awards and as a promoted artist for the Countess of Munster Musical Trust's Recital Scheme for 2005-2008, enabling him the opportunity to travel across the United Kingdom performing solo recitals and concerti for prestigious Music Clubs and Orchestral Societies.

In the Summer of 2008, he was invited to join the faculty of the Hereford Piano Summer School alongside acclaimed pianists Andrew Ball and James Lisney and was most recently appointed as pianist-in-residence at St. Bede's Senior School, East Sussex. The 2009-2010 season includes invitations to work with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, the Worthing Symphony Orchestra and a recital for the All Saints' International Concert Series in London; a solo recital for the Bishop Auckland Music Society and a solo recital tour of Scotland in the latter part of 2009.