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< Back to listSteve Parry
Composer and Music Arrangement
Since turning professional at the age of 17, Steve has been involved in many musical situations - mainly The Official Tribute to the Blues Brothers. Steve joined the show in January 1997 as trumpet player and became Musical Director in June of that year. Since then, he has appeared with the show in the West End and toured the UK and Europe, playing trumpet, drums, keyboards and bass.
With other projects, he has played the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Ronnie Scott’s and a trip to Namibia under his own name, headlining the first Cheetah National Arts Festival in Otjiwarongo (2004). Also, the beginning of 2008 saw Steve’s big-screen debut (!) playing the Mercury Orchestra’s trumpet player in the feature film Me and Orson Welles, directed by Richard Linklater. He can currently be seen on UK tours playing keyboards and various other instruments with Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Show and also with Simply Big Band, on which Steve is the Arranger, Musical Director and Co-producer.
Steve has worked with many great performers, such as John Hurt, Liam Neeson, Richard E Grant, Richard Griffiths, Kenneth Branagh and Roger Moore, and also collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. He has performed at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, the Millennium Celebrations at the Millennium Dome (now the O2 Arena) and the CricketWorld Cup Final at Lords. Also: the V Festival, Glastonbury and Live Earth 2007 atWembley Stadium, with Corinne Bailey Rae and John Legend. Whilst being active as a player, Steve is equally active as a writer, composing music for West End/Broadway award-winning shows (The Play What I Wrote, Heroes, Calendar Girls), as well as bands such as the Trinity College Big Band, Peter Grant, and his own Steve Parry and the Big Band From Hell. And to add to that, he also has had jingles used on British national radio, including the well-loved ‘Beat the Busby’ theme, as featured on The Chris Evans Show on BBC Radio 2.