Stephen Kingsbury

Description

I love playing the American songbook, musical theatre, light classical, and classic pop. I have almost thirty years experience playing in restaurants, lounges and bars for weddings, cruise ships, parties, corporate events and all sorts of other special occasions.

Set-List

Not by any means an exhaustive list:
Ain’t Misbehavin
Hello Dolly
Someone Like You
Angels
Blue Moon
A Thousand Years
Bohemian Rhapsody
Can’t Help Lovin that Man
The Bare Necessities
Foggy Day
When I’m 64
Hero
La Mer
Nowadays
Imagine
Razzle Dazzle
Love me Tender
Someone to Watch Over me
True Love’s Ways
Dream a Little Dream
Funny Honey
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
All That Jazz
The Hand Bags and Glad Rags
Sad Song
Your Song
On my Own
Whiter Shade of Pale
As time Goes By
Moon River ...
Yesterday
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Hey Jude
Bess You is my Woman
Cavatina
I Wanna be like You
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Black and White Rag
Chopin Prelude
If I Were a Rich Man
Oh Mio Babbino Caro
Summer Loving
Rachmaninov’s 2nd
The Bare Necessities
Pachelbel’ Cannon
Memory
Elton John selection
Chopin selection
Mozart selection
Bach selection
Jerome Kern selection
Cole Porter selection
Sinatra selection
Glen Miller selection
Disney selection
Phantom of the Opera selection
South Pacific selection
Simon & Garfunkel selection
Nat King Cole selection
The Doors selection
Irving Berlin selection
and many many more… Read More

Biography

As well as playing the piano I have written the music and lyrics to five original musicals: Great Expectations (2002), Treasure Island! (2003), The Wind in the Willows (2008), The Railway Children (2011) and Arbuckle (2016). The last three being in collaboration with writer/actor, Ben Sleep; our most notable successes being the The Wind in the Willows tours in 2009 & 2010 (UK) and 2015 (Far East) and the hugely popular Railway Children UK tours 2016/17. Two songs from Treasure Island will be used in the forthcoming feature film, Little Darlings (ManMade Productions). I have also ‘collaborate ... d’ with a certain Roald Dahl on some songs for James and the Giant Peach, produced over Easter 2014 at the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage.
My most recent musical work is a musical based on the 1921 scandal surrounding Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. It focuses on the crucial drama in his life, where he quickly turned from being a nation’s treasured funny man into a toxic figure of ridicule and despair. Sex, jealousy, greed, fame, infamy, betrayal, public anger, press manipulation, they’re all in there! The latter two being a particular lightning rod to today’s public affairs.
In between my writing, I have spent time as a pianist on a world cruise where I produced arrangements for the on-board cabaret. I am a songwriter, theatre composer and music tutor as well as having been a secondary school music teacher for nearly ten years, during which time I regularly taught singing and directed the music for many shows, including Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors and Cabaret.
I have composed and arranged music for several companies, most significantly for the outdoor touring productions of ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’ (The Medal, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, As You Like It and Henry V). Also, I have been the musical director on a number of shows including Third Theatre’s acclaimed production of Bizet’s Carmen.
Before all this I spent six years as an graduate engineer for Rolls Royce Aeroengines. Read More

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Experience

I have almost thirty years experience playing in restaurants, lounges and bars for weddings, parties, corporate events and all sorts of other special occasions. In addition, I have also spent considerable time playing on cruise ships around the globe. My repertoire includes light jazz, well-known classical pieces, musical theatre and classic modern pop hits. I will happily tailor these styles to suit your occasion, your tastes and requests. I prefer to play a well-tuned real piano if possible but I do have a great sounding digital piano if necessary.

Previous Clients

P&O Cruises
Fred Olsen Cruises
The Grosvenor House Hotel, Mayfair
Pinewood Studios
MS Black Watch, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines
Glemham Hall, Suffolk
Gosfield Hall, Essex
The Pier Hotel, Harwich
The Maison Talbooth, Dedham
The Barn Brasserie, Great Tey
The Officers' Club, Colchester
The Assembly House, Norwich
The Belstead Brook Hotel, Ipswich
Stock Brook Manor
Seckford Hall, Suffolk
The Orwell Hotel, Felixstowe
Alexandra House, Dovercourt
Marks Tey Hotel
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds

Suitable for

Birthday Party (Adult) Casinos Christening Christmas Party Cocktail Party / Drinks Reception Corporate Event Dinner Party Private Party Product Launch / Promotion Trade Show / Exhibitions

Additional Information

Insured for public liability. Equipment PAT tested.