Brian Budden

Brian has been a dedicated, passionate and active musician nearly all his life, learning and playing the piano from an early age. He has been an accompanist. for choirs and instrumentalists at music festivals and in concerts. Brian has also been drawn into the world of theatre and dance (including ballet) and been a show pianist for dramatic groups for musicals, Old Time Music Hall and Pantomimes, and also has previously played piano at a hotel in the New Forest. He also now entertains/plays piano with some singing regularly in care homes and day centres across the South of England along with accompanying piano duties for 2 Male Voice Choirs and a Community Choir in Hampshire. In addition he plays piano, and also can play electric or church organ, for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings and Christmas and Town Twinning Events, and in 2018 provided live piano soundtrack music for a silent film event at a historic location in Romsey, Hampshire, to mark a hundred years since the end of the Great War. Brian has a BA(Hons) Music Degree qualification as well as a P.G.C.E teaching qualification and in the past has taught music in secondary schools and taught keyboards in a Yamaha Music School in Huddersfield. The music experience that Brian has enables him to play piano in a range of different styles/ genres including classical, music theatre, ragtime, some mainstream pop and rock, jazz, and other types from most eras ancient to modern. He can also improvise if need be and sight read music quickly or learn and play musical numbers by ear. At different events Brian also can take requests from a wide repertoire.