BIOGRAPHY : Nigel Hart
Nigel Hart is one of tbe busiest musicians on the
Welsh entertainment scene.
Based in South Wales, he
provides services to the entertainment industry across the U.K. and beyond. He
is equally at home in the roles of pianist, composer, arranger and musical
director.
Nigel’s keyboard skills has
seen him touring with Max Boyce, The Supremes, Phantom of the Opera
and Radio 2 Big Band star Jeff Hooper.
He was also the Musical
Director and arranger for Jeff Hooper’s “Legends of Vegas” U.K. tour in
2000.
Nigel spent three years as
Musical Director and accompanist on Radio Wales’ “Thursday Afternoon Live” and has completed four series as M.D. of
Owen Money’s popular talent show “Just
up your Street”.
Other T.V. work has
included production (composition, arrangement and recording) of the signature
tune for B.B.C.’s “Am I Talking to You”.
He has also produced the
music for the B.B.C. comedy show “A Bit off the Fringe,” Radio Wales’ “Doing
It For A Laugh”, HTV’s arts magazine “Jigsaw” and BBC Wales’ “In At The Deep End” and “Sea Stories”.
He is a director of Shabbey Road
Recording Studios, a professional digital studio which opened in June 1999.
The studio recently produced the
new Jeff Hooper Album “As Long As I’m Singing” which has been featured
on Radio 2.
One of the studio’s earliest
projects – acclaimed Abba tribute band Abbamania – culminated in Nigel’s
debut on the West End as piano-playing band-member “Benny”.
Other studio projects which Nigel
has been directly involved in are:
Sequencing ballet music for Elvis
Costello
Composing, orchestrating and
recording numerous TV themes for both BBC and ITV
Orchestrating and recording CD’s
for sopranos Holly Holyoakes and James Rhys
Lawrence
Artistes Nigel has worked with
include:
q Max Boyce
q Mike Doyle
q Iris
Williams
q Elvis
Costello
q Jeff
Hooper
q Owen Money
q Brotherhood
of Man
q Peter
Karrie
q Bucks Fizz
q Sounds of
The Supremes
q Abbamania
(West End)
q Michael Barrymore
q National
Orchestra Of Wales
q Joe
Longthorne
q Phantom of
The Opera National Tour
q Beverley
Humphries