1. Classics: I've a huge repertoire of classical music - pieces by Bach, Bizet, Chopin, Dvorak, Elgar, Handel, Puccini, Purcell, Tchaikovsky, including many new arrangements of popular orchestral pieces, operatic arias, themes from favourite shows and films.
Tunes from shows are always popular - West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein) Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) Showboat (Jerome Kern) Cats, Evita, Phantom of the Opera (Lloyd-Webber) Les Miserables (CM Schönberg) Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock) Lion King (Elton John) have 'cross-generational appeal'. Themes from famous films also go down well - Godfather (Nino Rota) Titanic (James Horner) Schindler’s List (John Williams) Room with a View (Puccini's O mio babbino caro) The Sound of Music (Richard Rodgers).
2. Jazz, Blues, Latin and Swing is my main specialism, and always very popular at celebratory functions such as wedding receptions, gala dinners, university summer balls etc. I usually include plenty of 'American Songbook' standards - George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers numbers are especially popular, as are arrangements of songs sung by Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Clapton, Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley, Eva Cassidy, Charles Aznavour, Bill Withers, etc. My repertoire in this area is huge and varied, and I play in a variety of styles to suit the mood of the event. There's an indicative list below, arranged alphabetically:
A foggy day in London Town (George Gershwin)
Ain’t no sunshine (Bill Withers)
All my loving (Lennon and McCartney)
All you need is love (Lennon and McCartney)
All of me (Seymour Simons)
All the things you are (Jerome Kern)
Alleluia (Leonard Cohen)
Always on my mind (Wayne Thompson/Elvis Presley)
America (Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story)
At last (Harry Warren - Eva Cassidy)
Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma)
Sailing (Rod Stewart)
Beautiful love (Victor Young)
Berkeley Square (Manning Sherwin)
Bésame mucho (Consuelo Velasquez)
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered (Richard Rodgers)
Blue in green (Miles Davis)
Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk)
Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers)
Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino)
Blues in the Closet (Oscar Pettiford)
Bridge over troubled water (Simon and Garfunkel)
Brown-eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Can you feel the love tonight? (Elton John)
Can’t help falling in love (Elvis Presley)
Can’t help lovin’ that man of mine (Jerome Kern)
Candle in the wind (Elton John)
Cheek to cheek (Irving Berlin)
Climb every mountain (Richard Rodgers)
Corcovado (AC Jobim)
Crazy (Willie Nelson)
Days of Wine and Roses (Henry Mancini)
Dolce Drogha (Einaudi)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Fly me to the moon (Bart Howard)
For all we know (Fred Coots)
Garota de Ipanema (AC Jobim)
Georgia on my mind (Hoagy Carmichael)
Goin’ up yonder (trad.)
Gotta travel on (Bob Dylan)
Hard day’s night (Lennon and McCartney)
Hello Dolly (Jerry Herman)
Hymn to Freedom (Oscar Peterson)
I can see clearly now (Johnny Nash)
If you could read my mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
I got rhythm (Gershwin)
I just called to say I love you (Stevie Wonder)
I will always love you (Dolly Parton)
I wish I knew (Billy Taylor)
Imagine (John Lennon)
In my life (Lennon & McCartney)
Isn’t she lovely? (Stevie Wonder)
It ain’t necessarily so (George Gershwin)
It don’t mean a thing (Duke Ellington)
Jamaica Farewell (Harry Belafonte)
Jardin d’Hiver (Henri Salvador)
Just the two of us (Bill Withers)
Just the way you are (Billy Joel)
Lady be good (George Gershwin)
Lean on me (Bill Withers)
Let it be (Lennon and McCartney)
Liber Tango (Astor Piazolla)
Love for sale (Cole Porter)
Love is all around (Reg Presley)
Love me tender (Elvis Presley)
Lover man (Roger Ramirez/Billy Holiday)
Mannenberg (Abdullah Ibrahim)
Michelle (Lennon and McCartney)
Minor Swing (Django Rheinhardt)
Misty (Erroll Garner)
Money can’t buy me love (Beatles)
Moon river (Henry Mancini)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
Moonlight in Vermont (Karl Suessdorf)
Moonlight Serenade (Glen Miller)
Morning of the Carnival (Luis Bonfa)
Music of the night (Lloyd-Webber)
My favourite things (Richard Rodgers)
My foolish heart (Victor Young)
My funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers)
My Romance (Richard Rodgers)
Naima (John Coltrane)
Nardis (Miles Davis)
New York state of mind (Billy Joel)
Night and day (George Gershwin)
Norwegian Wood (Lennon and McCartney)
No woman, no cry (Bob Marley)
On a clear day (Burton Lane)
On Green Dolphin Street (Bronislav Kaper)
On the street where you live (Frederick Loewe)
Our love is here to stay (George Gershwin)
Out of nowhere (Johnny Green)
Over the rainbow (Harold Arlen)
Piano man (Billy Joel)
Red, red wine (Neil Diamond/UB 40)
Satin doll (Ellington)
Send in the clowns (Stephen Sondheim)
September song (Kurt Weil)
She (Charles Aznavour)
She’s always a woman (Billy Joel)
Smoke gets in your eyes (Jerome Kern)
Softly, as in a morning sunrise (Sigmund Romberg)
Someday my prince will come (Harold Arlen)
St. Louis blues (WC Handy)
St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
Stella by starlight (Victor Young)
Stormy weather (Harold Arlen)
Summertime (George Gershwin)
Sunrise, sunset (Jerry Bock)
Sway (Ruiz Beltran)
Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
The lady is a tramp (Richard Rodgers)
The Rose (Bette Midler)
The search for peace (McCoy Tyner)
The way you look tonight (Jerome Kern)
Time after time (Cyndi Lauper)
Twist Again (Bill Hayley - Chubby Checker)
Unchained melody (Alex North)
Wave (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
Wayfaring stranger (trad.)
When you wish upon a star (Leigh Harline)
Where or when? (Richard Rodgers)
Willow weep for me (Ann Ronell)
Wonderful tonight (Eric Clapton)
What a Wonderful World (Thiele/Weiss)
Yesterday (Lennon and McCartney)
Your song (Elton John)
3. Original piano music: I've a large (and growing) repertoire of original compositions for solo piano - including those from my album Canaan Road, and I sometimes create original pieces for weddings, reflecting the taste of the couple, if requested.
African Praise Song
Bill’s Lullaby
Calypso Dance
Canaan Road
Carpenter’s Son
Esbjörn’s threnody
Finistère
Locusts & Honey
Mali
Naomi
Pentecost
Salve Regina
Soweto Song
Poppies
Russian Winter Journey
Shiloh Waltz
Spirit
St. Patrick’s Crossing