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Pianist James Lent

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Los Angeles, California

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Pianist James Lent

Piano

Los Angeles, California

(104 Reviews)

About

Pianist and Keyboardist James Lent received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance from Yale University, and is experienced in performing jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, broadway, classical, and dueling pianos or any of your other favorite selections for any occasion. He is currently on the staff at UCLA as a collaborative pianist and vocal coach for the music department, and as pianist and musical director at AMDA, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Hollywood. He frequently performs throughout Southern California, and recently in venues including the House of Blues, LA Live, the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the Studio City Hilton Hotel, and Hollywood's Boulevard 3. James is available by himself and he can provide additional singers or instrumentalists in any combination including strings, drums, winds, and/or brass. He has also served on the summer faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA and as pianist and opera coach for the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.

As a musical director he has directed and played for productions of Edges, Grease, Seussical, Sweet Charity, Willy Wonka, West Side Story, Sondheim Unscripted, for the LA Stage Star Competition and for numerous headlining shows at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City. As a pianist he has performed for productions of Cabaret, Chess, A Chorus Line, The Fantasticks, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, Oklahoma, The Boyfriend, Lady in the Dark, and Merrily We Roll Along.

As a concerto soloist, Mr. Lent made his Alabama Symphony debut performing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 to critical acclaim on 24 hours' notice to replace Andre Watts. James' numerous piano awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition in New York, the Salon de Virtuosi Awards in New York, the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Competition, and the title of Top Instrumentalist in the World Championships for the Performing Arts in Burbank, CA. Mr. Lent's other orchestral appearances include the Vancouver Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Torrence Symphony, Orchestra X, the Ocean City Pops, the Utah Symphony and the Florida West Coast Symphony. His solo recital appearances include performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lubeck, Germany; for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, a Boston recital debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he gave the world premiere of a new work written for him by noted contemporary American composer Frederic Rzewski. His performances have been heard on New York's WQXR and National Public Radio's Performance Today. Mr. Lent was invited to participate in the Pierre Boulez Workshop for Instrumentalists and Conductors at Carnegie Hall where he performed with the renowned Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Maestro Boulez in a sold-out concert at Weill Recital Hall. Mr. Lent was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal.

Mr. Lent is a native of Houston where he attended the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of Houston. Since completing his Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale in 2001, Mr. Lent has been based in Los Angeles.
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  • School Assemblies
  • Weddings
  • Wedding Ceremonies
  • Wedding Cocktail Hours
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  • A Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler
  • A Whole New World Aladdin
  • Ain't Misbehavin Standard
  • Air on the G String Bach
  • All I Ask of You Lloyd Webber
  • All That Jazz Kanders and Ebb
  • All in the Family TV
  • All of Me Standard
  • All the Things You Are Jerome Kern
  • Anthem Chess
  • Anything Goes Cole Porter
  • As Time Goes By from Casablanca
  • At Last Standard
  • Autumn Leaves Standard
  • Be My Friend (The Facebook Song) Pasek and Paul
  • Be Our Guest Beauty and the Beast
  • Beautiful Christina Aguilera
  • Beauty and the Beast Disney
  • Begin the Beguine Cole Porter
  • Bennie and the Jets Elton John
  • Bewitched Standard
  • Big Spender from Sweet Charity
  • Boogie Wonderland Earth Wind and Fire
  • Bridal Chorus Wagner
  • By the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz Strauss/Schulz-Evler
  • Cabaret Kanders and Ebb
  • California Dreamin Mamas and the Papas
  • California Girls Beach Boys
  • Can You Feel the Love Tonight Elton John
  • Can't Help Lovin that Man of Mine Jerome Kern
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off You Frankie Valli
  • Canon in D Pachabel
  • Chariots of Fire from Chariots of Fire
  • Cheers "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" TV
  • Clair de Lune Claude Debussy
  • Climb Every Mountain Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • Clocks Coldplay
  • Concerto No. 1 in Bb Minor, Op. 23 Tchaikovsky
  • Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Rachmaininoff
  • Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 Mozart
  • Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 Prokofieff
  • Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 Beethoven
  • Concerto in A Minor Grieg
  • Copacabana Barry Manilow
  • Crazy Patsy Cline
  • Crazy Gnarls Barkley
  • Crocodile Rock Elton John
  • Cry Me A River Standard
  • Dancing Queen ABBA
  • Daylight Coldplay
  • Delovely Cole Porter
  • Do Re Mi The Sound of Music
  • Don't Cry for me Argentina Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore Standard
  • Don't Stop Believing Journey
  • Don't go Breaking my Heart Elton John
  • Ebony and Ivory Wonder/McCartney
  • Evergreen Barbara Streisand
  • Flintstones TV
  • Fly Me To The Moon Standard
  • For the Longest Time Billy Joel
  • Forget You C Lo Green
  • Funkytown Lipps
  • Fur Elise Beethoven
  • Get Me To The Church On Time Lerner and Loewe
  • Ghostbusters Ray Charles
  • Girl from Ipanema Standard
  • Golden Girls TV
  • Good Vibrations Beach Boys
  • Grand Polonaise Brilliante, Op. 22 Chopin
  • Greased Lightning John Travolta
  • Great Balls of Fire Jerry Lewis
  • Gymnopedie No. 1 Satie
  • Hey Jude Beatles
  • Holiday Madonna
  • Hot Stuff Donna Summer
  • I Am 16 Going on 17 from The Sound of Music
  • I Am a Catholic Alter Boyz
  • I Could Have Danced All Night Lerner and Loewe
  • I Feel Pretty Bernstein
  • I Get A Kick Out of You Cole Porter
  • I Guess That's Why they Call it the Blues Elton John
  • I Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye
  • I Just Called to Say I Love You Stevie Wonder
  • I Love A Piano Irving Berlin
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand Beatles
  • I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston
  • I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
  • I Write the Songs Barry Manilow
  • I'll Be There Michael Jackson
  • I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair Standard
  • I've Got Rhythm Gershwin
  • I've Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter
  • If I Ain't Got You Alicia Keys
  • If I Only Had A Brain from The Wizard of Oz
  • Imagine John Lennon
  • Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Mendelssohn
  • It Had to be You Harry Connick Jr.
  • It's Raining Men Weather Girls
  • It's Small World After All Disney
  • It's Still Rock and Roll to Me Billy Joel
  • James Bond Theme James Bond
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach
  • Just the Way You Are Billy Joel
  • La Vie Rose Standard
  • Lady Marmelade Christina Aguilera
  • Last Dance Donna Summer
  • Laverne and Shirley TV
  • Le Jazz Hot Standard
  • Life On Mars David Bowie
  • Like A Prayer Madonna
  • Like A Virgin Madonna
  • Little Shop of Horrors from Little Shop of Horrors
  • Living on a Prayer Bon Jovi
  • Love Boat TV
  • Love Will Keep Us Together Captain and Tennille
  • Love and Marriage from Married With Children
  • Luck be a Lady Standard
  • Macho Man Village People
  • Makin Whoopie Standard
  • Making Love Out of Nothing At All Air Supply
  • Malaquena Lecuona
  • Mamma Mia ABBA
  • Man That Got Away Judy Garland
  • Man on the Moon REM
  • Manic Monday Bangles
  • Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin
  • Material Girl Madonna
  • Maybe This Time Kanders and Ebb
  • Memory Lloyd Webber
  • Misty as arranged by Oscar Peterson
  • Monster Mash
  • Monticello Pasek and Paul
  • Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Movin On Up TV
  • Music of the Night Lloyd Webber
  • My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music
  • My Funny Valentine Standard
  • My Girl Temptations
  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy Cole Porter
  • My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion
  • My Man Judy Garland
  • My Way Frank Sinatra
  • Neutron Dance Pointer Sisters
  • New York, New York Frank Sinatra
  • Nine to Five Dolly Parton
  • Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky
  • On My Own from Les Miserables
  • On the Street Where You Live Lerner and Loewe
  • One Moment in Time Whitney Houston
  • One Singular Sensation from A Chorus Line
  • Open Arms Journey
  • Our Love is Here to Stay Standard
  • Over the Rainbow Judy Garland
  • Part of Your World Disney
  • Phantom of the Opera Lloyd Webber
  • Philadelphia Freedom Elton John
  • Piano Man Billy Joel
  • Play That Funky Music
  • Please Don't Say No from
  • Purple People Eater
  • Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie
  • Reverie Debussy
  • Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin
  • Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Rachmaninoff
  • Rock the Boat
  • Rocket Man Elton John
  • Rondo Capriciosso, Op. 14 Mendelssohn
  • Rondo alla Turca Mozart
  • Route 66 Standard
  • Sara Lee Kanders and Ebb
  • Satisfaction Rolling Stones
  • Saving All My Love for You Whitney Houston
  • Sesame Street TV
  • Sign Your Name Terrance Trent Darby
  • Sit Down You're Rockin the Boat
  • Smooth Operator Sade
  • Some Enchanted Evening Rodgers and Hart
  • Someday my Prince Will Come from Snow White
  • Someone Like You Adele
  • Someone to Watch Over Me Gershwin
  • Somewhere Bernstein
  • Somewhere My Love Standard
  • Somewhere That's Green from Little Shop of Horrors
  • Somewhere in Time from Somewhere in Time
  • Stand By Me Ben E King
  • Stardust Hoagy Carmichael
  • Stop in the Name of Love Supremes
  • Stormy Weather Standard
  • Strangers in the Night Frank Sinatra
  • Summer Nights Grease
  • Summertime Gershwin
  • Super Bass Nicki Minaj
  • Superstition Stevie Wonder
  • Surfin USA Beach Boys
  • Sweet Child of Mine Bon Jovi
  • Sweet Love Anita Baker
  • Tea for Two Standard
  • That's Amore Frank Sinatra
  • The Addams Family from The Addams Family
  • The Brady Bunch Theme from The Brady Bunch
  • The Entertainer Scott Joplin
  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack
  • The Main Event Barbara Streisand
  • The Man I Love Gershwin
  • The Search is Over Surivivor
  • The Sound of Music Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • The Swan Saint-Saens
  • The Way We Were Barbara Streisand
  • There's No Business Like Show Business Standard
  • They Can't Take That Away from Me Gershwin
  • Thousand Miles Vanessa Carlton
  • Thriller Michael Jackson
  • Through the Eyes of Love from Ice Castles
  • Time After Time Cyndi Lauper
  • Tits and Ass Marvin Hamlish
  • Tomorrow from Annie
  • Tonight (from West Side Story) Bernstein
  • Traumerai (Dreams of Love) Schumann
  • Twist and Shout Beatles
  • Under the Rainbow Judy Garland
  • Variations on the Pink Panther Mancini/Lent
  • Vision of Love Mariah Carey
  • Walk of Life Dire Straits
  • Waltzes in Ab, Eb, and Db (Minute Waltz) Chopin
  • Water Music Handel
  • We Are Family
  • Wedding March Wagner
  • What A Wonderful World Standard
  • What I Did for Love Bacharach
  • When I Fall in Love Harry Connick Jr.
  • When I'm 64 Beatles
  • When You Wish Upon a Star Disney
  • Witchcraft Frank Sinatra
  • Xanadu Olivia Newton John
  • YMCA Village People
  • You Make Me Feel So Young Standard
  • You Raise Me Up Josh Grobin
  • You're the Inspiration Chicago
  • You're the Top Cole Porter
  • Your Song Elton John
  • 70's Hits Piano
  • 80's Hits Piano
  • 90's Hits Piano
  • Blues Piano
  • Broadway Piano
  • Cabaret Piano
  • Chamber Music Piano
  • Classical Piano
  • Jazz Keyboards
  • Jazz Piano
  • Piano
  • Pop Piano
  • Wedding Singer
Price Range
$150 - $1500 per event See recent bids
Members
James Lent
Piano
Influences
Michael Feinstein, Harry Connick Jr, Billy Joel, Elton John, Liberace, Van Cliburn, Martha Argerich

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In addition to Los Angeles, Pianist James Lent will also travel to Alhambra, Bell Gardens, Glendale, Huntington Park, Maywood, Monterey Park, Bell, Hollywood, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Montebello, South Gate, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, Culver City, Downey, El Monte, Lynwood, Pico Rivera, Toluca Lake, Universal City, Willowbrook, Compton, La Canada, Montrose, North Hollywood and many other locations in and around the Los Angeles area.

Pianist James Lent received an average rating of 5.0 stars out of 5, based on reviews by 104 GigMasters clients.

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