- Location:
- San Diego, California
- Travel Radius:
- Will travel up to 100 miles from San Diego.
- Pay Range:
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$150-$575 per event
- Member Since:
- 2004
- Primary Category:
- Organ
- Additional Categories:
- Keyboards, Piano
- Genre:
- Classical, New Age, Opera
- Influences:
- Ilana Mysior,George Shearing, E. Power Biggs, David Nevue,Lori Line, Amethystium,Andrei Gavrilov,Ennio Morricone,Chopin,Isaac Albeniz,Johannes Linstead,Keiko Matsui,Mozart,Itzak Pearlman,Tony Bennett,Yann Thiersen,Beethoven, Tom Barrabas.
Group Members
- Wendy Greene - VOCALIST classical + jazz
- Zaira de la Cerda - Vocal operatic and sacred
Description
Carmen has performed at weddings,receptions,CHRISTMAS and HOLIDAY and Corporate events as background pianist and at private parties. She has a wide array of background music for cocktail parties and has performed for over 400 weddings in San Diego at various venues and churches. She is quite familiar with the Catholic Wedding ceremony and musical selections for the other traditional and non traditional ceremonies. Go to my website to hear my selections of wedding music at livingbalanced. and my music page shows up there.
SHE IS THE PIANIST/ORGANIST FOR THE LOCAL MILITARY base at Miramar HERE IN SAN DIEGO AND WILL DISCOUNT FOR any Military couple.
She has also a Kurzweil synthesizer to take with her if no piano is available at your site.
She has also played at other weddings,receptions, private parties around San diego county for many years. She also played background piano music for the San Diego Art institute at their quarterly wine and cheese parties .
She performs music on piano from Cole Porter to light classical music.
She studied chamber music at Fontainebleau Fine arts and music schools outside Paris with Nadia Boulanger and is also an accomplished violist who performs with other musicians at weddings and parties.
She has performed in 10 countries on piano and with orchestra and happy to live in San diego now.
Special requests gladly accepted, and she will accomodate for a memorable event.She can accompany vocalists singing jazz standards and light classical favorites too. Visit her website at and click on (MY MUSIC page) to hear music samples on piano and organ.
Song List
- A Day in the Life of a Fool
- Alfie
- Always
- All the Things You Are
- Amazing Grace
- And I Love Her
- And This Is My Beloved
- April in Paris
- As Time Goes By
- Ave Maria (Gounod)
- Ave Maria (Schubert)
- CANON IN D
- Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- Climb Every Mountain
- Cry Me A River
- Danny Boy
- Danza espanola #5
- Deep Purple
- Embraceable You
- From a Distance
- And a lot more plus your requests!
- WEDDING MARCH
- TRUMPET VOLUNTARY
- AIR
- Jesu Joy of OUr Desiring
- plus many many more
Available For:
Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Celebrations, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Clubs, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Festivals, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Hotels, Private Parties, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Showers, Studio Session, Weddings
Feedback
- Carmen was wonderful. -- Nanci F, San Diego, CA, 4/26/2008
- Carmen was very professional, she played beautifully and she was affordable. I don't feel any regret for hiring her and I would recommend her to my friends. -- Genevieve O, San Diego, CA, 12/22/2006
- Carmen played a wonderful selection of music. Our guests praised her all evening. The event was a great success and Carmen was a big part of it! I would highly recommend her for other events and would book her again in the future should an opportunity arise. -- Rhonda V, Scottsdale, AZ, 12/4/2005
- Carmen was professional and helpful. She made me feel comfortable and secure that our wedding music would be wonderful and it was.
Thanks -- Marin D, Alpine, CA, 7/30/2005
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Photos
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Upcoming Appearances
- Saturday, April 10, 2010
- 2:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- San Diego, CA
= Booked through GigMasters
Past Appearances
- Saturday, August 15, 2009
- 4:00PM - Admiral Kidd Club wedding reception cocktail hour
- san Diego, CA
- Friday, July 31, 2009
- 7:00PM - Private Party Wedding Reeption in Talmage Home
- San Diego, CA
- Friday, July 31, 2009
- 7:00PM - Wedding Reception
- San Diego, CA
- Saturday, July 11, 2009
- 11:00AM - El Cajon Masonic Lodge WEDDING/ Piano only
- El Cajon, CA
- Saturday, July 11, 2009
- 2:30AM - Wedding
- El Cajon, CA
- Sunday, June 28, 2009
- 9:30AM - Marine Corps Chapel Miramar Sunday service organ / piano
- Miramar, CA
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- 4:00PM - miramar MCAS chapel base WEDDING
- san diego, CA
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- 4:00PM - MCAS MIramar wedding
- san diego, CA
- Sunday, June 21, 2009
- 9:30AM - Marine Corps Chapel Miramar Sunday service organ / piano
- Miramar, CA
- Saturday, June 20, 2009
- 11:30AM - Wedding Ceremony
- Oceanside, CA
Click here for more past appearances= Booked through GigMasters