The Last Post From This Blog
I doubt anyone is reading these posts anyway, but it helps keep the site up the top of search engines. But the newly redesigned Wedding Pianist site is now all but ready to go live and it features its own internal blog, which you can see here:
…in a couple of hours hopefully!
Screenshot of the old website
Screenshot of the forthcoming redesign
I don’t just do weddings. This Friday I’ll be performing with a top clown called Chris Lynam. Here’s a link to one of his sketches that I’ll be providing piano accompaniment for:
Will post the video of our performance on the wedding pianist videos page when I get a copy of it.
I have been booked up to play lots of times throughout April at the Gilbert Scott restaurant in St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. The huge building above St Pancras International Station in London only recently got renovated when they moved the Eurostar terminal from Waterloo to St Pancras.
Will upload some photos of me playing there soon !
I will be performing at Maja’s Wednesday residency, accompanying the vocalist singing jazz standards.
We will be performing here on Wednesday:
I will be performing solo jazz piano at the Atrium Lounge of the Imperial Hotel in Russel Square this (and hopefully every) Friday from 3pm till 5pm, before rushing over to Shezan.
These poor quality recordings were made at Shezan restaurant in Knightsbridge, using a smartphone, hence the poor quality.
Chloe plays the guitar and sings jazz and latin standards as well as her own compositions. This recording features a pianist and she is available to hire as a duo, trio or quartet.
Zoologists at London Zoo are trying to get rare tortoises to mate hired Richard Clayderman to play to them. I’d call RSPCA!
http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/uk/london-zoo-plays-clayderman-to-encourage-turtles-to-mate-fails
Happy 2013 everyone !
I actually want to focus on the more serious side of my playing and my own compositions now.
However, weddings are the best paid gigs that I do and anyway, I enjoy playing the piano to a bunch of people who are all in a good mood.
More importantly is that I am saving up for a Yamaha U1 acoustic piano and I need a few wedding gigs in order to achieve this. And with this new focus on the more serious side of my playing will lead to your wedding guests being more entertained than they would be when I would stress out learning some Beyonce tune that I know I will never play again etc..
So I am whoreing myself out on the web a little bit, in order to get the money together for this new, serious piece of equipment and your weddings will be better for it.
As for what all the ‘serious’ jazz community think of my approach – just listen to the music – and you lot are no more important to me than the average wedding punters either.
It is ALL entertainment at the end of the day.
Fantastically talented, professional and experienced jazz singer Maja Szymczyk has launched her new website Singer for Hire where you can check audio and video samples of her recent performances.
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