Eric is a talented pianist whose influences and playing style has evolved from listening to and performing classical piano, popular music, blues and jazz standards. His performances are easy on the ear and based on melodic lines and inventive chord voicings, ideal for background piano music at receptions, weddings, corporate dinners, hotels and seasonal events.

Eric is the resident pianist at The Gleneagles Hotel, in the Strathearn Restaurant on Fridays, through Prompt Events. He played in the Strathearn, at Gleneagles during the prestigious 2014 Ryder Cup.

Eric has played at numerous venues including The Gleneagles Hotel, The Edinburgh Caledonian Hilton, The Doubletree by Hilton at Dunblane Hydro, Òran Mór, Xscape, and Strathclyde University. Clients include; The Variety Club Scotland, Glasgow City Council and The Law School Tutors.

Eric was bandleader and MD of Atlantic Avenue, a live band (no backing tracks or tapes), and one of Scotland’s top corporate and wedding bands. He has played at over 150 different venues throughout Central Scotland at prestigious corporate events and weddings over a 15-year period. Eric created all of the musical arrangements from original covers. Over this period he has worked almost exclusively with The Neil Drover Agency and Prompt Events with Atlantic Avenue, and as a solo pianist. He has also worked with his own clients in the corporate and wedding sectors.

He has been involved with various bands and musicians from: - SAHB, Slik, Salvation, Love and Money, Hue and Cry, The Eric Lovat Trio/Quartet, The Violet Leighton Trio, The Chris Clark Trio, over a 30-year period.

Eric is the resident pianist in the Strathearn restaurant in Gleneagles, on Friday's.

Styles

jazz • classical • popular

Events

corporate • weddings • hotels • receptions • private • seasonal • cruise ships • conventions

Contact Eric on: -

eric@ericlovatpianoman.com

h – 01698-821267

m – 07932-741087

Hear samples of his playing on: -

http://www.ericlovatpianoman.com

Set list for Piano Man

Pop

Street life – The Crusaders

Affirmation – George Benson

'Round midnight – Thelonius Monk

Mornin' – Al Jarreau

Your song – Elton John

Don't let the sun go down on me – Elton John

Song for Guy – Elton John

Creepin' – Stevie Wonder

Higher ground – Stevie Wonder

Livin' in the city – Stevie Wonder

Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder

Superstition – Stevie Wonder

Overjoyed – Stevie Wonder

Don't you worry 'bout a thing – Stevie Wonder

He's misstra know it all – Stevie Wonder

Too high – Stevie Wonder

Blame it on the sun – Stevie Wonder

Smile please – Stevie Wonder

My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder

Knocks me off my feet – Stevie Wonder

Hard habit to break - Chicago

You're my inspiration - Chicago

Just the way you are – Billy Joel

In your eyes – George Benson

After the love has gone – Earth, Wind & Fire

Got to get you into my life - Earth, Wind & Fire

I think it’s going to rain today – Randy Newman

Film night (I wish I knew how it would feel to be free) – Billy Taylor

The Hulk theme (The lonely man) – Joe Harnell

The odd couple – Neal Hefti

Hill street blues – Mike Post

Let it be – Paul McCartney

Hey Jude - Lennon & McCartney

The long and winding road - Lennon & McCartney

Imagine – John Lennon

Yesterday – Paul McCartney

This masquerade – Leon Russell

Sailing - Sting

Fragile - Sting

Peg – Donald Fagen

Ruby baby – Donald Fagen

I can't make you love me - Mike Reid & Allen Shamblin

Love me still – Bruce Hornsby & Chaka Khan

Killing me softly – Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel

Standards

Summertime – George Gershwin

You make me feel so young – Josef Myrow

I got rhythm – George Gershwin

Body & soul – Johnny Green

Willow weep for me – Ann Ronell

Georgia – Hoagy Carmichael

Try a little tenderness – Harry Woods

My funny valentine – Richard Rodgers

Can't we be friends? – Kay Swift

You don't know what love is – Gene de Paul

A foggy day in London Town – George Gershwin

Fly me to the moon – Bart Howard

Autumn leaves – Joseph Kosma

Love for sale – Cole Porter

Witchcraft – Cy Coleman

Night and day – Cole Porter

I can't give you anything but love – Jimmy McHugh

The way you look tonight – Jerome Kern

Speak softly love – Nino Rota

Ain't she sweet - Milton Ager & Jack Yellen

Angel eyes – Matt Dennis

As time goes by – Herman Hupfield

Autumn in New York – Vernon Duke

Brother can you spare a dime – Jay Gornay

But not for me – George Gershwin

Can't we talk it over – Victor Young

I get a kick out of you – Cole Porter

It's only a paper moon – Harold Arlen

Jeepers creepers – Johnny Mercer

Just one of those things – Cole Porter

Lulu's back in town – Harry Warren

Misty – Errol Garner

Skylark – Hoagy Carmichael

Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey

Tea for two – Vincent Youmans

Time after time – Julie Styne

You make me feel so young – Josef Myrow

All of me - Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks

Cherokee – Ray Nobel

Here's that rainy day – Jimmy Van Heusen

These foolish things - Jack Strachey & Harry Link

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller

It had to be you – Isham Jones

Who can I turn to - Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley

Tenderly – Walter Gross

Gee baby ain't I good to you - Andy Razaf & Don Redman

Moonlight in Vermont – Karl Suessdorf

Mean to me - Fred Ahlert & Roy Turk

Nobody knows you when you're down and out – Jimmie Cox

Basin street blues – Spencer Williams

Take the “A” Train – Billy Strayhorn

Body and Soul – Johnny Green

Rag

Maple leaf rag - Scott Joplin

The entertainer - Scott Joplin

Classical

Chopin

The Minute Waltz (Opus 64 Nr. 1)

The Revolutionary (Etude Opus 10 Nr.12)

Polonaise in Ab Major (Heroic Opus 53 Nr. 6)

Ballade in F minor (Opus 52 Nr. 4)

Rachmaninoff

Prelude in G minor (Opus 23 Nr.5)

Prelude in G# minor (Opus 32 Nr.12)

Mozart

Sonata in C K545

Bach

Prelude Nr 1

Prelude Nr. 2

C.P.E. Bach

Solfeggietto in C minor

Beethoven

Fur Elise

Moonlight Sonata (Opus 27 Nr.2)

Modern

The Piano - Michael Nyman