Stephen Guy Daltry

I love performing, be it background piano or accordion, or a tailor-made piano comedy show for a function or private audience. If you read some of my reviews I hope they show that I care about delivering quality. ( I also have public liability insurance). I love playing classical piano because that has been my main instrument since I was 9, and in my piano studies at Christ Church College Canterbury (BA Cons Class I) and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama I developed my skill as a musician; then, inspired by the great Victor Borge, I developed comedy as part of my musical performance, and learnt to play the piano-accordion. Performing highlights of my career so far have been my successful one man show at the Pheasantry (Pizza Express) Chelsea, and getting four stars and rave reviews on the Edinburgh Fringe for 'Ludwig's Van.' Regarding my personality I have a sensitive piano approach, and my years as a pianist at Kettners taught me when to play quietly in the background and when to show more personality, and in front of a captive audience the quiet Stephen can transform into something more Eric Morecambe-like! Sometimes I write tailor made shows for birthday parties, where they feed me with information about the birthday person and I do a kind of musical-comical 'This Is Your Life!" I have been a pianist/accordionist for many theatre shows, such as 'Three Men in A Boat' at the Theatre Royal, York, and 'The Madness of George Dubya' at the Arts Theatre; I have played at many functions and hotels such as the West Lodge Park Hotel, Cockfosters. I have played piano for and composed many scores for TV and cinema, including the 2013 Sundance Festival hit documentary, 'The Moo Man', ' 'The Hunt' for BBC2 (Cultural Prix Italia 1999), two documentaries on Princess Diana for ITV, the Grierson Award-nominated 'The 2000 Year Old Computer' for the BBC (2013), 'The Real Catherine Cookson' (Yorkshire TV), 'Charlotte: A Royal at War' for Luxembourg, British & American broadcast. I trained in Composing for Film at the National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield, England. I have also composed stage musicals, including the British Library's 'Alice Through the Looking-Glass’, a Critics Choice in The Times for its Hampstead production in 2001. Reviews: "a gorgeous musical score of violin and cello by Stephen Daltry — breathtaking in its simplicity, beauty and effectiveness.” (Ken Russell, 30th Oct 2009, The Times, review of 'The Lost World of Mr Hardy') Stephen Daltry’s attractive chamber score... captures the surroundings’ pastoral beauty" (Dennis Harvey in Variety, Feb 4th 2013, review of 'The Moo Man’)