Saturday, December 6, 2008

Deryn Trainer Mini-Concert for Atwaters Keyboard Club

Deryn Trainer gave a great return mini-concert for the Atwaters Keyboard Club at Atwaters Musicworks, Hobson Street, Auckland City. DSCF0908 Deryn played a variety of popular music including songs from his recently released album "Deryn Trainer". DSCF0905 Deryn played a Yamaha Stage Piano CP33 and a Yamaha grand piano with equal aplomb. Some of the songs played included: "Fly Me To The Moon"; "Route 66"; "Leningrad" (one of Deryn's favourite songs from Billy Joel); "Misty" (this was a spontaneous request and Deryn's orchestrated arrangement was magnificent and off-the-fly!); Mark Knopfler's "Goin Home"; and by request, of course, Billy Joel's "Piano Man" replete with harmonica. DSCF0906 The concert continued for just over an hour and then Deryn spent about 10 minutes answering questions about his musical training and background which started at an early age with classical piano training. DSCF0907 Very interesting and what a great guy - good sense of humour and no 'edge'. Thank you very much Deryn and good luck from all your fans in your quest for recognition in Las Vegas.

A big thank you to Murray Hancox of Atwaters also for arranging this concert as a Christmas special.

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