Elliot Smith
Elliot Smith is an award winning classical guitarist with over 10 years professional experience. His repertoire includes Classical, Spanish, Jazz and instrumental Pop/Rock covers. Perfect for any occasion requiring beautiful ambient music to set the mood.
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Videos
All of Me / John Legend
Cello Suite No. 1, Prélude / Johann Sebastian Bach
A Thousand Years / Christina Perri
Set List / Repertoire
POPULAR WEDDING REQUESTS
Popular requests for the wedding ceremony.
A Thousand Years
Bridal Chorus/’Here Comes The Bride’ (Wagner)
Canon in D (Pachebel)
Cavatina/Theme from ‘The Deer Hunter’ (Myers)
Prelude in D (Bach)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
CLASSICAL
Traditional pieces for the classical guitar.
Air on the G String (Bach)
Allemande – Cello Suite No.1 (Bach)
Almain (Dowland)
Andante in E (Mozart)
Birds Flew Over The Spire (Ryan)
Canarios (Trad)
Canon (Pachebel)
Courante – Cello Suite No.1 (Bach)
Cycles in the Avenue (Lindsey-Clark)
Etudes (Carcassi)
Etudes (Sor)
Greensleves (Anon)
Gymnopedie No.1(Satie)
Havre Gosselin (Lindsey-Clark)
La Moinerie (Lindsey-Clark)
Minuet in G (Bach)
Prelude in D – Cello Suite No.1 (Bach)
Sarabande – Cello Suite No.1 (Bach)
SPANISH
Spain; the spiritual home of the classical guitar.
Asturias (Albeniz)
Bolero (Calatuyud)
Bulerias (Calatuyud)
Cancio del Illadre (Trad)
Capricho Arabe (Tarrega)
Danza Mora (Pearson)
El Testamento De Amelia (Trad)
Estudio (Tarrega)
Fandango (Lindsey-Clark)
Fandanguillo (Calatuyud)
Farruca (Pearson)
Gran Vals (Tarrega)
Granadinas (Pearson)
La Llorona (Trad)
Lagrima (Tarrega)
Malaguena (Tarrega)
Olorosso (Lindsey-Clark)
Pamplona (Lindsey-Clark)
Pavana (Tarrega)
Petenera (Pearson)
Romanza (Trad)
Soledad (Oser)
Tango (Lindsey-Clark)
Vals Navarra (Lindsey-Clark)
Zincarlo (Lindsey-Clark)
JAZZ
A compilation of classic jazz standards arranged for classical guitar.
All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern)
Blue Moon (Rodgers)
Bluesette (Thielemans)
Days Of Wine And Roses (Mancini)
Embracceable You(Gershwin)
Fly Me To The Moon (Howard)
How Insensitive (Jobim)
If Ever I Would Leave You (Lerner)
It Had To Be You (Jones)
Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Summertime (Gershwin)
When I Fall In Love (Young)
POP/ROCK and MOVIE THEMES
Instrumental arrangements of classic pop/rock and movie themes.
A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
Accidentally in Love (from ‘Shrek 2’)
Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
All of Me (John Legend)
All You Need is Love (The Beatles)
Always (Bon Jovi)
And I Love Her (The Beatles)
Another Day In Paradise (Phil Collins)
As Long As You Love Me (Backstreet Boys)
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera)
Bring Me Sunshine (Arthur Kent)
Can't Help Falling In Love (Elvis)
Cavatina/Theme from ‘The Deer Hunter’ (Myers)
City of Stars (from ‘La La Land’)
Don't Wanna Miss A Thing (Aerosmith)
Everything I Do (Bryan Adams)
Fields of Gold (Sting/The Police)
Godfather Suite (Rota)
Grow Old With Me (Tom Odell)
Hallelujah (Cohen)
Heartbeats (Jose Gonzalez)
Here Comes The Sun (Beatles)
Here There and Everywhere (Beatles)
Hotel California (Eagles)
How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees)
I Believe I Can Fly (R Kelly)
In My Place (Coldplay)
Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
Isn’t She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)
Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer)
Knockin on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)
Let It Be (Beatles)
Mad World (Michael Andrews)
Marry You (Bruno Mars)
More Than Words (Extreme)
No Surprises (Radiohead)
No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)
Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
One Day Like This (Elbow)
Only Exception (Paramore)
Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World - Medley (Arlen/Armstrong)
Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
Photograph (Ed Sheeran)
Run (Snow Patrol)
Someone Like You (Adele)
Summer Of 69 (Bryan Adams)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
The Luckiest (Ben Folds)
Use Somebody (Kings of Leon)
Wildest Dreams (Taylor Swift)
Without You (Mariah Carey)
Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)
Wonderwall (Oasis)
Yellow (Coldplay)
You Are Not Alone (Michael Jackson)
You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
You Are The Reason (Calum Scott)
Full Biography
Highlights
* Award winning classical guitarist!
* Professionally trained at leading music conservatoire!
* Over 10 years professional experience!
* Repertoire includes Classical, Jazz, Spanish and Instrumental Pop/Rock covers!
* Requests welcome (in advance)!
Please note: Elliot does not travel to Central London.
Elliot Smith is an award winning classical guitarist who specialises in providing beautiful live music at weddings, private functions, corporate events and restaurants around the UK. He has over 10 years of professional experience and is guaranteed to make your event a success.
Elliot's repertoire includes Classical, Spanish, Jazz and instrumental Pop/Rock covers. This diverse range of repertoire appeals to a wide range of people, which is perfect if you’re planning a wedding or event where you want a musician who can cater for everybody’s tastes.
He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has performed in a number of prestigious venues including Houses of Parliament, De Vere Belfry and Birmingham Symphony Hall. He has performed for HM Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Mandelson, Alistair Campbell and has also appeared on BBC Radio Scotland.
Elliot offers a unique song arrangement service, where he will take any song and rearrange it to be played solo on the classical guitar. This can be anything from Metallica to Flight of the Conchords or anything in between.
"Great energy and technical ability - A highly accomplished performance"
MARK ASHFORD, Birmingham Conservatoire of Music
"Made to look and sound effortless... A most enjoyable recital"
PAUL GREGORY, International Segovia Prize Winner
Elliot Smith Customer Reviews
In the top 25% of most reviewed Classical Guitarists.
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We would highly recommend him for any occasion.
Derek A booked Elliot Smith for their event
“A truly amazing atmosphere created by a very talented musician. He has been both professional and personable from first contact through to playing at our civil ceremony. The highly complementary comments from our guests speak for themselves. We would highly recommend him for any occasion to create a...” Read more
Extremely professional and reliable.
Joanne booked Elliot Smith for their event
“Elliot played at my son's christening and I was more than delighted with his performance. The music perfectly complimented the occasion and everyone commented on how much they enjoyed the music. I would highly recommend him to anyone and I would most certainly ask him to perform at any other event I...” Read more
The first thing that you will notice is that Elliot is a genuinely warm guy who ...
Jake booked Elliot Smith for their event
“The first thing that you will notice is that Elliot is a genuinely warm guy who can't do enough for you. After playing through the wedding breakfast several guests commented to us how impressed they were with him, we agree.”
A first class service.
Mike A booked Elliot Smith for their event
“Elliot played for 4 hours at our wedding reception/breakfast in December. We cannot say thank you enough for the performance - the atmosphere he created was perfect and may guests specifically commented on his playing. Furthermore, he provided a first class service all the way through from initial c...” Read more
We couldn't have been happier with our choice.
Laura booked Elliot Smith for their event
“Excellent choice of guitarist booked for our wedding, we couldn't have been happier with our choice. Reliable, easily contactable, punctual, friendly. Beautiful music played throughout our wedding reception playing exactly the types of songs we had requested. The guitar music was definitely one of t...” Read more
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