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Currently Playing/Arranging (one-nighters
* Kings of Swing : Songs of the Rat Pack. (Associate MD/ Piano/Co-Arranger)
“Amazing that just a six-piece band - under the direction of MD Simon Walters -
could have provided such a convincing solid musical backdrop, reproducing the
arrangements of masters such as Nelson Riddle so effectively on such a small scale”
( South Wales Evening Post 28 Jan 04)
* Beyond Broadway featured at Royal Albert Hall 07/07/03
presented by Calibre Productions (Assistant MD/ Keys/ Sax/ Clarinet/Co-Arranger).
Sirens (choir): (Accompanist/Arranger): various concerts/collaborations
* Waterson (keyboards/ co-writer/ studio for this unique singer/ band)
* Jungle Book, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinnochio, Hansel and Gretel,
Tarzan, West End To Broadway, Tribute to Cole Porter etc. (MD/ Keys)
presented by Barrie Stacey Productions
(arrangements/ transcriptions/ scoreprinting): (various: perfect pitch )
Past Engagements (a selection...see further engagements for more!)
Arranger/ Programmer of Hagbanes Doom: for Starshine Music
Keys for G4 at Royal Albert Hall for Classic Response event.
MD/Keyboards/ Arranger for Dick Whittington at Theatre Royal Nottingham
MD/ Keys/ Co-Arranger:‘We Could Be Heroes’ @ the Bridewell (Time Out Critics Choice)
MD/ Piano/ Arranger for Vivian Ellis Prize Finalist "When Harry Met Barry" by
Paul Emelion at the London Palladium (produced Highgate 2002, West End 2005)
MD/ Keyboards for "Passion, Poetry & Things" at the Pomegranate, Chesterfield
(also "Thanks For the Memories" Feb 1999)
"Simon Walters plays the piano with one hand and coaxes a 17 piece
orchestra out of a keyboard with the other" (Derbyshire Times July 6 99)
MD/ Keyboards/ Arranger for “Aladdin” & "Sleeping Beauty" (Scott Paul Young):
"Simon Walters' keyboards contribute some striking sound as well as accompaniment"
( The Stage 28 Dec 96)
Audition pianist for "Maddie" :-West End & Salisbury Playhouse runs (Kenneth Wax Ltd)
MD/Pianist for nationwide tour of "20th Century Musicals" for
Dinner on Broadway Productions:
"he kept everything brilliantly together- felt the music with every note“
(Newbury Weekly News 31 Oct 96)
Rehearsal Pianist/ Co-Arranger for 'The Fly' demo CD by Robert Longden
(Paul Farrah Associates)
Keyboardist/ Rehearsal Pianist/ Audition Pianist/ Studio for Lionel Bart's workshop
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