Simon Brett

Name:	Simon Brett
Location:	Across UK & abroad United Kingdom NE
Contact:	Vodafone: 07787-524773. e-mail: contact via the website link on here. Send Simon Brett a message

Additional Info:	Substantial experience of accompaniment across UK and abroad - on organ, piano and keyboards - playing for individuals and choral societies, as well as for instrumentalists, and in various styles and genres (classical, jazz, traditional folk & popular). Classical work centres around places of worship - formerly two cathedrals and numerous churches - and continues, including Dunblane (C of S) and Newcastle (St. Nicholas' Anglican / C of E) Cathedrals. Accompanist, Callington Singers (Cornwall), Goring Chamber Choir (Oxfordshire), Wiveliscombe Community Choir (Somerset). Jazz work centres on jazz piano especially with singers and other instrumentalists, improvisation and session work, traditional folk centres on barn dances / ceilidhs with other instrumentalists, occasional concerts and special events and session work. Various diplomas with prizes from Royal College of Organists and Associated Board; full member, Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM).
Fees:	fees would obviously be variable and negotiable, depending on location, logistics, level of musical requirements, amount of rehearsal time required and complexity of the music concerned, and whether or not audio and/or video recordings were involved.
Instruments:	Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Electric Keyboards
Additional Specialisms:	Early Music, Contemporary Music, Jazz, Improvisation, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Répétiteur, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction