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About Lee

Book me & my baby grand Piano shell! Pianist for Weddings and Corporate Events & Parties. Resident Pianist at The Dorchester Hotel.

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Pianist

Oxford

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I have been playing the piano since I was 5 years old. I began my career on board Cruise ships at the age of 21, travelling and playing around the world for 5 years, working for Cunard, Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruises. I then moved back to land and started working in London's famous hotels and department stores where I gained residencies at The Lanesborough, Harrods and The Dorchester, where I've held a Pianist residency for over 10 years. I also specialise in wedding entertainment and I currently perform at over 100 weddings per year. I have my very own Baby Grand Piano Shell which has been specially designed to be fully portable to fit into any function room. It's also easily assembled within 30 minutes. I play all types of music from contemporary modern pop songs to jazz and rat pack music - check out my repertoire for the full list. My playing is never overbearing or too noisy. I have finely tuned my art after years of playing at The Dorchester Hotel in London. Whatever your requirements are, I would be very happy to discuss how I can help make your special day even more memorable.

Lee

5 out of 5

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Satisfaction

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Professionalism

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Communication

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Punctuality

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Lee's Reviews

5 out of 5

Lee was absolutely fantastic, he played for us at our wedding breakfast the most beautiful relaxed and romantic music for our wedding day, all the guests loved him and venue staff said he was the best pianist that had ever played there. Such a lovely friendly man too. We’re so glad we booked Lee for our big day, and will forever be grateful to Lee for the wonderful life long magical memories he’s given us to take away from our wedding day. All our love Mr and Mrs Adams 02/11/2024 Xx

Reply from Lee

1 month ago

Thanks so much for your very kind words. It was an incredible day! Thanks for letting me be a part of it! X

5 out of 5

Lee was brilliant. Arrived in plenty of time and played beautifully

Reply from Lee

5 months ago

Thank you so much for having me on your big day! I really enjoyed it!

5 out of 5

Amazing

Reply from Lee

1 year ago

Thanks Holly 😊

5 out of 5

Lee was INCREDIBLE. If you are thinking of booking Lee for your event, then just do it - do it now! Lee played beautifully during our wedding ceremony & our drinks reception. He had a huge set list and his music wasn't overpowering, just greatly adding to the ambiance of our day. Lee was a true professional and even changed location to an outdoor reception at the last minute, without batting an eyelid. Lee's performance really helped make our wedding our perfect day, we're very grateful for the memories you've helped to create.

Reply from Lee

1 year ago

Thanks so much Becca & Tom! That's made my day ! Best wishes to you both and happy memories! 😊

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5 out of 5

Lee was great - he was incredibly flexible, moving between rooms as we finished the meal and moved into the bar. The baby grand piano really looks the part, and adds to the atmosphere. Would definitely have him back for another event.

5 out of 5

We can't thank Lee enough for the amazing music he played at our wedding. Throughout the whole day it was absolutely beautiful. We had so many comments about how fabulous he sounded, so a massive thank you from both Jim and I...it was simply perfect!

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Lee's Song list

I can play anything from modern pop, jazz standards to classical.

A Whole New World from Aladdin

All of Me by John Legend

At Last by Etta James

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga

Beautiful Day by U2

Beauty and the Beast

Bella lullaby

Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve

Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison

California Girls by The Beach Boys

Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Can’t Help Falling In Love by Elvis

Can’t Smile Without You

Chasing Cars Snow Patrol

Cheek to Cheek

Cheers Theme

Cinema Paradiso

Clocks, Coldplay

Close to You by Carpenters

Demons Imagine Dragons

Don’t Stop Believin by Journey

Every Breath You Take, Police

Feeling Good by Nina Simone

Fields of Gold Sting

Forgotten Dreams

Fragile, Sting

From This Moment On Shania Twain

Gabriel’s Oboe

Game of Thrones

God Only Knows by Beach Boys

Going to the Chapel

Hallelujah Leonard Cohen

Halo Beyonce

Happy Pharrell Williams

Happy Together, Turtles

Ho Hey Lumineers

Hello Goodbye Beatles

Here Comes the Sun The Beatles

Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros

Hotel California The Eagles

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

I Just Called to say I Love You

In My Life, Beatles

In My Leaving on a Jet Plane

Let it Be Beatles

Let it Go Frozen

Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney

Love and Marriage Frank Sinatra

Love Story by Taylor Swift

Love Theme from The Godfather

Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet

Make You Feel My Love by Adele

Maria from West Side Story

Marry You by Bruno Mars

Memory from Cats

Michelle Beatles

Misty

Moon River

Moonlight in Vermont

My Favorite Thing

My Heart Will Go On Love Theme from Titanic

Open Arms by Journey

Paradise Coldplay

Love Theme from Love Actually

The Prayer

Red Sails in the Sunset

A River Flows In You Bella’s Theme/Twilight

Rolling in the Deep, Adele

Romeo and Juliet Love Theme

The Rose

Scarborough Fair

Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Tchaikovsky

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Somebody Used to Know Gotye

Someone to Watch Over Me Gershwin

Somewhere Out There

Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin

Starry, Starry Night

Suddenly

Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof

Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond

Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses

Take me to Church by Hozier

Thousand Years, from Twilight

Till There Was You

Time of Your Life by Green Day

Tonight West Side Story

Truly Madly Deeply Savage Garden

Try to Remember

Viva La Vida Coldplay

Wake Me Up When September Ends, Green Day

We’ve Only Just Begun

When a Man Loves a Woman

When You Say Nothing At All

Wild Horses, Rolling Stones

The Wind Beneath My Wings

With A Little Help From My Friends

Wonderful Tonight

Wonderwall, Oasis

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Yellow Coldplay

Yesterday

You Raise Me Up

Your Song Elton John

You’ve Got a Friend in Me

Jazz Standards/Vintage Songs

A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE

A TIME FOR US/THEME ROMEO & JULIET

A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN

ALL OF ME

ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD

ALWAYS ON MY MIND

AMAZING GRACE

ANGELS

ANNIES SONG

ANYTHING GOES

ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT

AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE

AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME

AS TIME GOES BY

AUTUMN LEAVES

BALLADE POUR ADELINE

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

BEGIN THE BEGUINE

BEWITCHED

BRIGHT EYES

BLUE SKIES

BLUEBERRY HILL

BLUEBIRDS OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

BRING HIM HOME

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

BUMBLE BOOGIE

BUT NOT FOR ME

BYE BYE BLACKBIRD

CABARET

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT

CAN YOU READ MY MIND

CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE

CAN’T HELP LOVIN DAT MAN

CANDLE IN THE WIND

CHARIOTS OF FIRE

CHEEK TO CHEEK

CHI MAI

CLIMB EV’RY MOUNTAIN

CLOSE TO YOU

CRAZY

CRY

CRY ME A RIVER

DANIEL

DANNY BOY

DARLING JE VOUS AIME BEAUCOUP

DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO?

DON’T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA

DON’T GET AROUND ANY MORE

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM

EDELWEISS

EMBRACEABLE YOU

EVERYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE

FIRST TIME I SAW YOUR FACE

FLY ME TO THE MOON

FOR ALL WE KNOW

FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS

FROM A DISTANCE

GEORGIA

GIRL FROM IPANEMA

GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME

HAPPY TOGETHER

HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY

HELLO

HEY JUDE – BEATLES

HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN

HOW HIGH THE MOON

I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM

I DREAMED A DREAM

I FALL TO PIECES

I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU

I GOT RHYTHM

I HAVE DREAMED

I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU

I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO

I LOVE PARIS

I LOVE YOU

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

I’LL KNOW ‘GUYS AND DOLLS’

IF I LOVED YOU

IF YOU WERE THE ONLY GIRL

ILL BE SEEING YOU

ILL BE THERE

IM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

IM LOOKING OVER A FOUR LEAF CLOVER

IMAGINE

IN MY LIFE – BEATLES

IN THE MOOD

ISN'T SHE LOVELY

IT HAD TO BE YOU

IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON

I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN

JUNE ROSE LANE

LA VIE EN ROSE

LADY IN RED

LADY IS A TRAMP

LET IT BE – BEATLES

LIEBESTRAUM

LONG AND WINDING ROAD – BEATLES

LOSING MY MIND

LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING

LOVE LETTERS

LOVE ME TENDER

LOVE ON THE ROCKS

MAKIN WHOOPEE

MARIA ‘WEST SIDE STORY’

MAYBE

MAYBE ON A SUNDAY

MAYBE THIS TIME

MEMORY FROM CATS

MISTER SANDMAN

MISTY

MONA LISA

MOON RIVER

MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT

MOONLIGHT SERENADE

MUSIC OF THE NIGHT

MUSIC TO WATCH GIRLS BY

MY FUNNY VALENTINE

MY WAY

NATURE BOY

NESSUN DORMA

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

NIGHT AND DAY

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

NOCTURNE – BILLY JOEL

O SOLE MIO

OL MAN RIVER

ON MY OWN

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET

ONE MOMENT IN TIME

ONLY YOU

OVERJOYED

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN

PIANO MAN

PRETEND

RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD

RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS

RED ROSES FOR S BLUE LADY

RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET

RELEASE ME

SAILING

SATIN DOLL

SECRET LOVE

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

SEPTEMBER MORN

SEPTEMBER SONG

SHE

SIT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER

SMILE

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

SOMETHING – BEATLES

SOMETHING STUPID

SOMEWHERE

SOMEWHERE MY LOVE

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

SONG FOR GUY

SONG FROM MASH

SOPHISTICATED LADY

SPANISH EYES

SPEAK SOFTLY LOVE

STAND BY ME

STORMY WEATHER

STRANGER ON THE SHORE

STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

STREETS OF LONDON

SUMMERTIME

TELL ME THERES A HEAVEN

TENDERLY

THAT’S LIFE

THE CANDY MAN

THE ENTERTAINER

THE MAN I LOVE

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT

THEME FROM 1492

THEME FROM A.I.

THEME FROM ARTHUR

THEME FROM PHANTOM

THEME FROM TUBULAR BELLS

THEME FROM WILLY WONKA

THEME SCHINDLER'S LIST

THEME TWIN PEAKS

THERE ARE WORSE THINGS I COULD DO

THIS GUY'S IN LOVE WITH YOU

TILL THERE WAS YOU – BEATLES

TITANIC

TOMORROW

TRUE LOVE

UNCHAINED MELODY

UNFORGETTABLE

VALENTINE MOON

VINCENT

WEVE ONLY JUST BEGUN

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING; OKLAHOMA

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

WHAT I DID FOR LOVE

WHAT IT MEANS/NEW ORLEANS

WHEN I FALL IN LOVE

WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL

WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

WHERE DO I BEGIN (LOVE STORY)

WHERE IS LOVE

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

WIND BENEATH MY WINGS

WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND

WITH ONE LOOK ‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’

WITHOUT YOU

WONDERFUL TONIGHT

WORDS

YESTERDAY – BEATLES

YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE

YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE ‘CAROUSEL’

YOUNG AT HEART

YOUR SONG

Lee's Prices

Last updated: 2024

Note: prices may vary based on travel distance. For an exact quote, click “Check availability”.

Performance duration	Price
Short performance (up to 15 min)	£250
Up to 1 hour	£262.50
Up to 2 hours	£287.50
Up to 3 hours	£306.25

Wedding Reception

Playing throughout your drinks reception. With songs to suit all ages from modern pop to swing rat pack music. Upto 3 x 45 min sets.

£270

Wedding breakfast

Provide beautiful background piano to your wedding breakfast upto 3 x 45 min sets. From modern pop to rat pack music suitable for all ages.

£270

Wedding Ceremony & Drinks reception

For 3 X 45 min sets plus 30 min pre ceremony music.

£320

Customer questions

What if my timings change after I've booked you?

No problem. This happens and all you need to do is contact me and we can discuss your changes. I'm very flexible!

Can you provide an iPod/DJ service before and between your sets?

Yes I can provide music between sets from my iPad.

How much time do you need to set up?

Usually 30-60 mins.

If I have a piano at my venue, are you happy to perform on that?

I love using a real piano so yes please.

Can I pick the songs you play from the set list?

Yes I have a very varied and extensive repotoire and your very welcome to choose songs or ask me to learn any of your favourites.

Are you able to bring your own piano or keyboard?

I have an amazing portable baby grand piano shell and also a keyboard.

Can you learn song requests before the event?

Yes. Usually I don't charge for this. I have a large collection of sheet music.

What do your clients love most about your performances?

I like to play songs people recognise and play accross the ages. something for everyone.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

I was the resident Pianist at Harrods and the Dorchester hotel in London for over 10 years. I've also played at The lanesborough, Rubens, Claridges, Browns and weddings all accross the UK.

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Rat pack hero's like Frank Sinatra, Elton John, modern pop hits from Ed Sheeran, Adele, Taylor swift and classics from Billy Joel

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

I did a duet with Jools Holland and played for Stevie Wonder at Harrods.

Musicianship

Genres:

Classical, Jazz, Blues, Swing, Ragtime, Easy listening, Light music, Pop, Rock 'n' Roll

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Instruments:

Piano

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Event types:

Wedding, Wedding proposal, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Hotel / Restaurant event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Theatre / Show, Cruise, Burns night, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Other skills:

Fluent improviser, Composer, Accompanist

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