Pianist

Creative Scotland; Scotland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Creative Scotland recherche un pianiste pour rejoindre un orchestre unique de piano classique lors de spectacles au Festival Fringe d'Édimbourg 2025. Le pianiste devra jouer avec deux autres musiciens, offrant une expérience immersive et collaborative tout en interprétant des compositions variées de grands auteurs classiques dans un cadre innovant.

Qualifications

• Musicien créatif et imaginatif.
• Doit jouer le bas dans un ensemble de trois pianistes.

Responsibilities

• Assister le pianiste selon et le pianiste primo.
• Jouer plusieurs œuvres classiques pour performance.

Skills

Créativité

Imagination

Jouer du piano

Job description

We are looking to for a third pianist for our unique classical piano orchestra (called 'cirque du piano'), which enjoys playing music for three pianists at one piano!

You would be bass and would assist our secondo/middle pianist Matthew Shiel and primo pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead.

We are already booked to perform eight shows in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, following our successful run at Fringe 24.

The five shows (lasting one hour) will take place at Fringe Venue 197 (St Vincent's Chapel):
WED 06, THU 07, SAT 09, WED 13, FRI 15, THU 19, WED 20, SAT 23 @ 8.30PM

We are looking for a creative and imaginative pianist who can play the bass part:
Stars and Stripes Forever – John Philip Sousa
Fantasy after Scottish Folk Songs – Carl Czerny
Romance – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rondo alla Turka (‘Turkish March’) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marche funèbre d’une Marionette – Charles-François Gonoud
Carillon de St Pierre - Georges Malézieux
Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Overture from the Barber of Seville – Gioachino Rossini

The music is not hard for a professional pianist; it is more the challenge of playing with two other pianists – which is a lot of fun actually!

Moonlight is a performing arts company that creates immersive classical music experiences, concerts, shows and exhibitions. It celebrates interdisciplinary collaboration with writers and storytellers, visual artists, dancers and filmmakers (and beyond) to push the boundaries of what a classical concert can be and create the 'performance of the future.' Moonlight reimagines what a concert can be.

Our shows have received several five-star reviews in the press and collaborate with festivals across the UK including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Brighton Fringe:
"Matthew Shiel 'composed' a most enchanting concert" (Edinburgh Guide)
"Sim and Shiel both are masters of their crafts" ( Binge Fringe Magazine)
"Matthew Shiel shone" (Three Weeks)

Successful collaborations often develop into long-term creative partnerships beyond the Fringe.

Our website is moonlightconcerts.co.uk

Contract: Freelance
Fee:£468.70 (10 hours work in total; 8 hours performing and two hours rehearsing; rate of pay: £46.87 per hour)

The deadline is Thursday 10 July 2025 at 13:45.