Since
starting to play at the age of four Harry has set about proving that he can
do 'absolutely anything on piano'. Quite simply, he does things with the
instrument that you've never heard before, switching between jazz, cabaret
and classical in a manner that hasn't been seen in this country since the
heyday of Dudley Moore.
Very few artists can command respect in such differing fields, but Harry has
such an extraordinary talent that as well as running a 20 piece dance band
by the age of nineteen and appearing with a who's who of British jazz
musicians culminating with a night at Ronnie Scotts last year, he has also
accompanied just about everybody in the business from Inglebert Humperndink
and Charlotte Church to David Bowie and James Belushi via Elvis Costello and
opera star Sir Willard White as well as being musical director for top of
the bill acts at the Moulin Rouge in his early twenties and going on to
direct acts as diverse as Rick Astley, Phill Jupitus, Max Bygraves, The
Opera Babes, Fay Presto and literally scores of others.
He appeared recently on BBC Radio 3 taking requests from a live audience to
play any tune in the style of the composer of their choice to rapturous
acclaim and prompted the comment from astonished presenter Brian Kaye 'How
does he do it?' After a recent sell-out concert celebrating the best of
British pianistic talent where Harry was asked to perform, the international
star concert pianist Martin Roscoe noted 'You practise all your life and you
think you can play the piano and then you hear Harry'. Even in the field of
pop music Harry has been recognised playing on the latest Simply Red and
Emma Bunton albums.
He began as resident pianist in Soho's Groucho club where he was quickly
spotted and given his own show on BBC Radio 2, he moved on to become the
resident pianist on Channel 4's Big Breakfast for 5 years and to run the
nine-piece band on Johnny Vaughan Tonight on BBC1 for three series. He put
together his one-man show along with the release of an album 'In the Wrong
Key' in the late nineties and was lauded by the British Press as 'The New
Victor Borge' and by Jonathan Ross as 'the best damn pianist in the
civilised world'
The show has now been seen in all six continents, and was recently chosen to
appear on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary 2 alongside Shirley Bassey and
has sold out venues everywhere from Pizza on the Park five times to the 2000
seater Portsmouth Guildhall. 'Spellbinding...staggering virtuosity' said the
Sunday Times and 'A National treasure' added the Scotsman' You have never
ever heard the piano played like this before!
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