Highly Recommended Based in Redditch, Worcestershire but travels UK wide
Pianist Joe George effortlessly mixes jazz, classical, blues and pop with cocktail piano and improvisation, for the perfect backdrop for any social event. Available with violinist and jazz vocalist in 2 beautiful duos! Christmas Songs Available Prices: From £96+
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"We had Joe booked for a private cocktail party in our home. I thought he was very sensitive to our requirements and set the tone beautifully for the evening. He was very polite, professional and played most of our suggestions. This was also a late booking so all credit to him for playing a great selection of music. "
Line up: Solo - Piano. Duo - Piano and vocalist/ Violinist
Quotes include piano hire for venues that do not have a piano on site
Classical pianist Joe George trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire to achieve a Distinction at grade 8. As a professional music coordinator Choir Director and performer since 1997 Joe can tailor his performance to suit the atmosphere of any wedding ceremony evening reception private party or corporate dinner.
Covering every style and genre from blues and jazz right through to rock ballads Joe is the perfect cocktail piano player and improviser. Joe is well versed in all the popular standards and requests are welcomed
Joe gives a sensitive performance to suit all requirements and with his friendly and professional attitude this pianist will make all of your guests feel welcome and relaxed.
In addition Joe is now also available as a duo option with the fantastic female vocalist Elly Grace.
Elly Grace was born into a family of artists in Versailles, France, and started singing and performing from a very young age. At 16 she moved to the UK where she studied Performing Arts in Shrewsbury for four years. She then specialised in Music, Dance and Popular Songwriting at Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama in Nottingham. She then returned to France where she toured the Paris Jazz scene, singing in cabarets and piano bars. Upon her return to England in 2008, Elly took up the position of Assistant Director of Music with Ludlow Young Voices and subsequently Bournville Young Singers.
Elly Grace is currently a Midland-based freelance singer, with a unique, poetic performance style that is reminiscent of rich 1930’s and 40’s jazz, and greatly influenced by her French heritage.
Joe is also available as a duo with talented violinist Joanne Lucas
Jo began to study violin with Heidi Nixon in November 1999 and attained her Grade 8 in March 2008. Since September 2007 she has enjoyed leading the Sandwell Youth Orchestra and co-leading the Worcestershire Youth Orchestra and has successfully auditioned for her 4th year with the CBSO Youth Orchestra. She is a former holder of the prestigious title “Worcestershire Young Musician of the Year” and has performed for the British Suzuki Institute at St. John’s Smith Square in London. Jo has also played at many other superb venues such as Ragley Hall and Throckmorton Chapelry.
1) Wedding service or short performance (30 minute) 2) Longer performance (eg wedding plus 2 hour reception)
Repertoire includes: Pachelbel Canon Chanson de Matin - Elgar Salut d'Amour - Elgar Méditation from Thaïs - Dvořák Monti Czárdás Brahms Hungarian Dance Boccherini Minuet Dvořák Humoresque Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Gluck
*Joe can come fully equipped with a superb Kawai ES6 digital piano if an instrument is not available at the venue* Previous prestigious venues include:
Adrian Boult Hall - Birmingham Brantwood House Brussels Cathedral Beach Ballroom - Aberdeen Birmingham Repertory Theatre Birmingham Town Hall Buxted Park Hotel Georgetown Restaurant - Stratford Grieg Hall - Alcester Hilton Hotel - Bromsgrove Hanbury Manor Marriot Hotel Highbury Hall Leamington & County Golf Club Lennoxlove House – Edinburgh Lygon Arms Hotel - Broadway Market Bar and Dining Room – Marlow Middleton Hall Newbury Racecourse Notre Dame Cathedral Palace Theatre - Redditch Symphony Hall - Birmingham St Martins Hockley Studley Castle The Elms - Abberley The Lygon Arms - Broadway The Manor Hotel Moreton-in-Marsh The Manor House - Dronfield The Manor of Groves Hotel - High Wych The Olde Rectory - Whitbourne The Red Hart – Kingston Beechcroft House Hotel - Wiltshire Clearwell Castle Coombe Abbey Hotel – Coventry Mollington Banastre Chester Pendley Manor - Tring St John’s Hotel – Solihull The Jinney Ring Tissington Hall – Derbyshire
Testimonials
Joe You were highly professional from the minute I contacted you. All of the suppliers for our wedding were fantastic but you were outstanding. Nothing was too much trouble for you and I couldn't have made all of those little decisions which made the day so perfect without your help and guidance. I would and will be recommending you to anyone who needs your type of service. I really cannot thank you enough for being so friendly and responsive to all of my incessant pestering. I hope that I shall meet you again in the future.
P. J. Halesowen
Hi Joe The music was just brilliant - it was wonderful walking up to the reception and hearing the soft sounds of the piano - it complimented our afternoon tea beautifully. It just made it perfect. The service was excellent - it couldn't have been better - so easy to contact you and arrange everything! I couldn't have been happier with my choice of pianist!
C.W. Belbroughton
Dear Joe Wow - what a day we had. Thanks for your help in making it such a happy one. We would recommend anyone to book you for their entertainment. We had some very musical people at our party who were most complimentary about you. You played just the right kind of music. Thanks again for helping us make our day such a success.
Kind regards M.D & N.D Gloucester
Hello Joe My wife and I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for last Saturday. YOU MADE OUR DAY! Words can’t convey how much we want to thank you. You were a true pro! Thanks again and all the best.
D.A. Hertfordshire
Joe George (Pianist)'s Set List / Repertoire
NEW! Christmas Repertoire! Santa Baby Let It Snow It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year White Christmas Frosty the Snowman So This Is Christmas Jingle Bell Rock Mistletoe and Wine Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Santa Claus is Coming to Town Sleigh Ride Winter Wonderland Wonderful Christmastime Walking in the Air Plus More...
Standard Repertoire
Jazz and Blues A Beautiful Friendship - Styne/Kahn A Foggy Day - Gershwin A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square - Maschwitz/Sherwin A Woman In Love - Frank Loesser A Woman Is A Sometime Thing - Gershwin Ain't Misbehavin' - Razaf/Waller/Brooks All the Way - Van H/Cahn As Time Goes By - Herman Hupfeld Bess You Is My Woman - Gershwin Black Coffee - Webster/Burke Blue Skies Are Round The Corner - Parker/Charles But Not For Me - Gershwin Chances Are - Stillman/Allen Do Something - Green/Stept Embraceable You - Gershwin Every Time We Say Goodbye - Cole Porter Georgia On My Mind - Gorrell/Carmichael Harlem Nocturn - Rogers/Hagen I Dreamed A Dream - Boubil/Schönberg I Know Him So Well - Andersson/Ulvaeus I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Gershwin I Should Have Known You Years Ago - Hoagy Carmichael I Wish You Love - Charles Trenet I'll Remember April - Raye/de Paul/Johnson I'm Beginning To See The Light - Duke Ellington et al. In the Mood - Razaf/ Garland It Ain't Necessarily So - Gershwin It's Only A Paper Moon - Arlen/Harburg/Rose Love Is Here To Stay - Gershwin Lover Man Oh Where Can You Be - Davis/Ramirez/Sherman Lullaby Of Birdland - Shearing/Weiss Mack The Knife - Brecht/Weill Misty - Garner/Burke Moolight Serenade - Miller/ Parish More Than You Know - Rose/Eliscu/Youmans My Man's Gone Now - Gershwin Nice Work If You Can Get It - Gershwin Old Deuteronomy - Webber/Eliot One Morning In May - Parish/Carmichael Over The Rainbow - Harburg/Arlen Pennies From Heaven - Burke/Johnston Promenade - Gershwin Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Harbach/Kern Someone To Watch Over Me - Gershwin Summertime - Gershwin The Girl From Ipanema - Gimbel/Jobim The Man I Love - Gershwin) The Moon Got In My Eyes The Way We Were - Bergman/Hamlisch The Way You Look Tonight - Kern/Fields These Foolish Things - Maschwitz/Strachey They Can't Take That Away From Me - Gershwin This Masquerade - Leon Russell Try A Little Tenderness - Woodscampbell/Connelly Valmouth Songs What I Did For Love - Kleban/Hamlisch and more...
Classical Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian Air On The G String - J S Bach Air (Water Music) - Handel Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss Canon - Pachelbel Cello Concerto -1stmvt - Elgar Chanson de Matin - Elgar Clair de Lune - Debussy Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky Gymnopédie no. 1 - Satie Jupiter - The Planets - Holst Largo – (New World Symphony – Dvořák) Meditation - (Thaïs - Massenet) Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven Nimrod - Enigma Variations - Elgar Orpheus (flute melody – Gluck) Pathetique Sonata - 2ndmvt - Beethoven Pavane - Fauré Prelude for Piano - no.2 - Gershwin Preludes in A E Cm - Chopin Raindrop Prelude - Chopin Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture) - Tchaikovsky Sheep May Safely Graze - S Bach Sleepers Wake - S Bach Valse Brillante - opin and more...
Modern A Whiter Shade of Pale - Reid/ Brooker Come Together – Beatles Crocodile Rock – Elton John Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Freddie Mecury Day Tripper - atles Do You Want To Know A Secret? - Beatles Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Webber/Rice Earth Song - Michael Jackson Eight Days A Week - Beatles Eleanor Rigby - Beatles From Me To You - Beatles Get Back - Beatles Hello Goodbye - Beatles Help - Beatles Hey Jude - Beatles I Get A Kick Out Of You - Cole Porter I Got Rhythm - Gershwin I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles I Will Survive - Fekaris/Perren Macavity The Mystery Cat - Webber/Eliot Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles I Write The Songs - Bruce Johnston I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles I'll Be There For You (from Friends) - David Crane et al. It Had To Be You J/Kahn Imagine - John Lennon Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel Killing Me Softly (Gimbel/FozLady) - Lionel Richie Lady Madonna - Beatles La Isla Bonita - Madonna Let It Be - Beatles Let's Do It - Cole Porter Love Is All Around - Reg Presley Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley Love Me Do - Beatles Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Beatles Maria - Leonard Bernstein Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Beatles Michelle - Beatles Moon River - Mercer/Mancini Mr Mistoffelees - Webber/Eliot Mull Of Kintyre - Paul McCartney My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic) - Jennings/Horner New York New York - Ebb/Kander Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) - Sager/Hamlisch Norwegian Wood - Beatles Nowhere Man - Beatles Ob-La-Di - Beatles Octopus's Garden - Beatles Penny Lane - Beatles Pillar To Post - Flanders/Swan Please Please Me - Beatles Sailing - Gavin Sutherand Saving All My Love For You - Gofin/Masser Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles She Loves You - Beatles Something Stupid - Carston Parks Song For Guy - Elton John Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Elton John Stand By Me - King/Leiber/Stoller Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles Take My Breath Away - Moroder/Whitlock Thank You For The Music - Andersson/Ulvaeus The Fool On The Hill - Beatles The Godfather - Nino Rota The Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh Unchained Melody Zaret/North and more...
Colette & Joe Repertoire A Quiet Thing Alright With Me Blue Skies Cry Me A River Don’t Get Around Much Any More Everytime We Say Goodbye Fly Me To The Moon For Once In My Life Get Happy Get Here Hallelujah I Love Him So He Was Too Good To Me Heaven I Get A Kick Out Of You I Won’t Dance It Had To Be You It’s Only A Paper Moon Love Letters Love Me Like A Man Mack The Knife Making Whoopee Moonglow Skylark S’wonderful Taking A Chance On Love Teach Me Tonight The Nearness Of You The Way You Look Tonight Why Do Fools Fall In Love Yes Sir That’s My Baby
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25/03/2013 Joe George (Pianist)
"We had Joe booked for a private cocktail party in our home. I thought he was very sensitive to our requirements and set the tone beautifully for the evening. He was very polite, professional and played most of our suggestions. This was also a late booking so all credit to him for playing a great selection of music. "
Customer review by Vicky
02/04/2012 Joe George (Pianist)
"I booked Joe George for a hen party event & he played for us while we had a cocktail hour. The atmopshere was perfect & Joe George was so easy to get along with & very professional. I would think about booking him again for future events."
Customer review by Samantha Venner
10/09/2011 Joe George (Pianist)
"Hi Joe,
Sorry for the delayed response....we've only just returned from honeymoon.
Anyway, thankyou so much for providing such a wonderful service on our wedding day. Everything you played was pitched perfectly for the style of our day and delivered beautifully.
So many of our guests commented on your talent and professionalism. Your liaison with us prior to the event was excellent and very reassuring. It made my list of things to do a little smaller for which I was extremely grateful.
I'm sure a bride panicking about entrance music is not unusual, but your suggestions saved the day and you made us feel nothing was too much trouble so thankyou for helping to make our wedding day so wonderful!
We would have no hesitation in recommending you to others and would definately book you for any future events.
Thanks again for truly outstanding service playing on the day and pre-event liaison.
"
Customer review by Cathy & Dan Rawson
23/07/2011 Joe George (Pianist)
"We thank you for playing at our wedding, you were marvellous on the day, and the fact that you learnt all those new songs is just another tribute to your skills and contributed to our special day immensely.
You set the mood just right during the ceremony, canapés and wedding breakfast. We had so many complements from our guests on how good you were, and what an amazing job you did. You came highly recommended and you didn’t disappoint.
Thank you so much."
Customer review by Daniel Vaz
16/07/2011 Joe George (Pianist)
"We wanted to say a huge thank you for your excellent performances on our special day. Your flexibility to learn new music at short notice was much appreciated and the piano version of the Wannadies, You and Me, went down a storm.
Our guests also commented on how good you were, so thank, thanks and thanks again for helping make our special day so amazing and memorable!!
"
Customer review by Amy Swainsbury
15/06/2011 Joe George (Pianist)
"Thank you so much for your excellent playing on wednesday for our Anniversary Tea. Your music and choice of pieces has been much complemented. It was absolutely ideal for the occasion.
Jan (U3A)"
Customer review by Jan Woolley
11/12/2010 Joe George (Pianist)
"Joe was highly professional and maintained close contact with us prior to the wedding, which was highly reassuring.
The standard of piano playing and the flexibility that he showed to play requests was absolutely first rate.
All of the guests commented on just how good he was.
I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Joe for future weddings.
He was absolutely fantastic!
"
Customer review by Lee Hammon
24/04/2010 Joe George (Pianist)
"The beautiful piano playing was a lovely accompaniment to the meal, we have had lots of people commenting how nice it was to have a live pianist playing at the reception.
The choice of music was just what we had in mind and you delighted us with the mix of music you played. (I remember catching certain tunes over lunch and bopping slightly in my seat!)
Thank you for helping us to make it such a special day!"
Customer review by Joanne R
13/10/2009 Joe George (Pianist)
"Before we go off on our honeymoon we just wanted to send you a quick e-mail to thank you for your performance at our wedding reception on Saturday. You were a hit! We are still having comments about how much everyone enjoyed listening to you whilst at our venue. Professional from the start your setup was perfect, exactly what we hoped for!
In particular your rendition of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" has been the favourite of numerous guests. Your other choices were also right on the money, making it a day people will remember for a long time to come. It was also great to have that speaker set up outside so guests could hear you as they arrived and we could also whilst being photographed thousands of
times outside!
If you need a reference in the future, we're both more than willing to provide one! Thanks again for making our day that extra bit special!"
Customer review by Mark and Joanna
23/09/2008 Joe George (Pianist)
"Dear Paul,
We had a fabulous day. Joe George was very charming and set a relaxed ambience during the drinks and canapes. He even picked up on the Irish accents and played the National Anthem which pleased my in-laws no end.
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