The hour between the ceremony and dinner — or before the speeches at a reception — is when guests first take in the room. Live piano makes it an occasion. I am Dr. Maria Pisarenko, a classical concert pianist and Doctor of Musical Arts, trained in the Moscow Conservatory school with a documented teaching line back to Franz Liszt.
Send the date, the venue and roughly how many guests. I reply personally, with a programme suggestion and a quote.
Between the ceremony and the reception, while photographs are taken: guests arrive in a room that already sounds like a celebration.
The networking hour before a dinner or an awards programme. Corporate & conventions →
Arrival music before the programme begins, and interludes between speakers.
The classic setting for a classical pianist. Private parties →
Conversation volume. Guests should be able to talk without raising their voices and still notice, now and then, that the music is very good.
Yes, and many couples book both: the ceremony music, then the drinks and the photographs, often into dinner. Two hours is the minimum booking, with travel and any breaks included in it.
Light classical — Debussy, Satie, Chopin waltzes and nocturnes, Mozart, Tchaikovsky — with Gershwin and arranged film and popular melodies when the room asks for a smile.
A fine acoustic piano is my ideal setting, and many venues have one — ask yours what is in the room. If there is none, tell me early and we will agree the best arrangement together.
Send the date, the place and a line about the occasion, and I will come back to you with a programme suggestion and a quote.