Since June 2021, Ian has been performing his piano music "live" on TikTok on a daily basis, and has built up a following of 540k, and produced 4 singles, "Floating on a Cloud" "Going Somewhere" "Where Do Lost Dreams Go?" "Remember Me" plus 6 albums "Beyond the Clouds" "Beyond the Stars"
"A New Galaxy" "David Copperfield" "Now & Then" and "We Need ANother Christmas Song" - all available on Spotify, Apple Music, Itunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, Pandora and Youtube.
To hear his music on Spotify play the link below or go to his Spotify page Ian Rae on Spotify
A video excerpt of one of his live performances on TikTok is at the bottom of the page
Ian Rae is a freelance musician / piano entertainer / jazz and wedding pianist, living in Kenley in Surrey.He recently retired from being a peripatetic music teacher at St Andrews School in Croydon, used to be a tutor at Richard Stilgoe's Orpheus Centre near Godstone, teaches jazz piano and keyboard styles, and is a freelance composer of music and songs for a video, television, radio and a number of theatrical productions, performed at the Fairfield Halls and Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon, Miller Centre, Caterham, Secombe Centre in Sutton as as well as Rochester and Chichester Cathedrals.
His musical "Olympus - The Musical " co-written with Chris Chambers was staged at a RSC showcase at the Questors Theatre in London, then had its premiere at the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon 9th to 12th May 2012, and then transferred to the Minack Theatre in Cornwall 17th to 19th May, in the run up to the London Olympics. For more details please visit Olympus - The Musical .
Ian's follow up musical "I Hate Musicals" had its premiere in South London in Late Nov early Dec 2012. For more information please feel free to visit the web site at I Hate Musicals
As well as providing entertainment on piano/keyboards, and working as a jazz and wedding pianist in South London, Surrey and Kent, Ian currently is the pianist with two jazz bands - Mirage (with his wife Morven) and One Foot In The Groove (without his wife Morven). For more information please visit The Irma Music Web site.
A specialist in the Musical Direction of Old Time Music Halls he has been MD for numerous shown for CODA and Croydon Stagers, and is currently resident MD for Croydon Masqueraders Old Time Music Hall Group - Croydon Masqueraders OTMH
A prolific music and song writer, has produced music for theatre, film and video and four of his songs have been recorded and released by Sony/EMI on an album called Showtunes, available on Amazon, Itunes, Shazam, Deezer and Spotify, and one of the songs "Things We Loved For Yesterday" features in a number of episodes of the Channel 4 catchup series "Professor T". The sheetmusic for "Things We Loved From Yesterday is now available here on SheetMusicPlus.
He has also released four albums on the Irma Music Label including Burns Banks and Braes by Ian & Morven Rae(10 of the love songs of Robert Burns set to original and haunting new tunes - "Ae Fond Kiss", "Ca' the Yowes", "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose", "Ye Banks and Braes" and "John Anderson my Jo" are set to the original well loved tunes and ,"Logan Braes", "(There'll Never be Peace) Till Jamie Comes Hame", "Thou Hast Left Me Ever Jamie" "My Heart's In the Highlands" and "Robin Adair" have been recreated with haunting new tunes specially composed by Ian, as part of the Robert Burns Love Song Project.
To see a promotional video or further information on where to purchase mp3 downloads or sheet music for a number of Roberts Burns' songs, visit www.RobertBurnsSongs.co.uk
For a complete listing to all Ian's folk song arrangements please access Irma Music UK
In the run up to recent Burns Nights, Ian produced 6 spoof video poems - Tae A Virus, Tae A Curry, Tae A Password, Tae A Celebrity, Tae A Fitba' and Tae a Mobile phone - accessible on his Ian Rae Youtube Channel The text of these poems can be seen and downloaded here
The other Irma Music albums are Sing Everyone Sing (New Christmas Carols for Modern Times distributed by Irma Music) and Olympus the Musical - Original cast sound track and the original cast album of I Hate Musicals was released in late November 2012.
And if you're looking for really silly songs for little children why not visit Thoughtz4Totz where you'll find really silly songs, videos and sheet music
So if you are looking for a jazz pianist for your restaurant, piano player to provide sing along songs at your party, or a piano entertainer for your wedding reception, private or corporate function contact
now. Or maybe you just wish to learn how to develop your piano or keyboard jazz & pop styles - email him on IR followed by @IanRae.co.uk) or call him on 020 8660 6910 or 07956 652444
The Twinkling Stars variations (based on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) played by Ian
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