Takeru Saito Pianist Jazz Pianist from New York City, NY
Will travel up to 120 miles
- Avg 5.0 | 3 Reviews
- 9 Verified Bookings
- Member Since 2024
- 1 Award or Badge
- Accepts Online Payment
- Starting at $200 per event
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Award-winning pianist, composer, and educator based on New York City. Offering solo, acoustic bass duo, or jazz piano trio performances. Music tailored for any occasion including weddings, cocktail hours, baby shower, private party, celebrations, corporate event, etc. I can play a diverse selection of music, from classical and jazz to pop, rock, Broadway, film scores, Disney classics, and holiday songs. I’m also happy to accommodate any special song requests! Bio- In 2014 he was awarded a scholarship both from TOMODACHI Suntory Music Scholarship Fund and Rotary Club Japan to attend Berklee College Of Music, where he studied with notable musicians including Joanne Brackeen, Darren Barrett, David Santoro, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Billy Kilson. While in school he was selected to perform at U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference held in Tokyo, an event Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Sinzo Abe, Japanese former Prime Minister participated in. He recorded with Grammy award-winning trumpeter Darren Barrett for his project, But Beautiful “Time For Romance”, which was released in 2018. In 2022, he was chosen to perform with Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Jack Walrath at Dizzy’s Club Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. In the same year he earned Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies from Manhattan School Of Music. He has toured throughout the US as well as Japan. Currently he is based in New York, where he has been actively performing in various venues in the city.
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- A Change Is Gonna Come | Sam Cooke
- A Thousand Years | Christina Perri
- A Whole New World | Alan Menken (from Aladdin)
- All of Me | John Legend
- All You Need Is Love | The Beatles
- American Boy | Estelle ft. Kanye West
- Any Jazz Standards | Great American Songbook
- Back to Black | Amy Winehouse
- Bad Guy | Billie Eilish
- Bad Romance | Lady Gaga
- Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken (from Beauty and the Beast)
- Bennie And The Jets | Elton John
- Best Part | Daniel Caesar & H.E.R
- Birds of a Feather | Billie Eilish
- Blackbird | The Beatles
- Blinding Lights | The Weeknd
- Bring It On Home To Me | Sam Cooke
- Call Me Maybe | Carley Rae Jepsen
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You | Frankie Valli
- Circles | Post Malone
- Clocks | Coldplay
- Clocks | Coldplay
- Close to You | The Carpenters
- Cold Heart | Dua Lipa
- Cold Heart | Elton John & Dua Lipa
- Come Together | The Beatles
- Crazy | Gnarls Barkley
- Creep | Radiohead
- Crocodile Rock | Elton John
- Cruisin' | Smokey Robinson
- Cupid | Sam Cooke
- Dance Monkey | Tones And I
- Dancing Queen | ABBA
- Don't Know Why | Norah Jones
- Don't Start Now | Dua Lipa
- Don't Stop Believin' | Journey
- Don’t You Worry 'Bout a Thing | Stevie Wonder
- Dreams | Fleetwood Mac
- Every Breath You Take | Police
- Fever | Peggy Lee
- Forget You | CeeLo Green
- Girl From Ipanema | Antônio Carlos Jobim
- Happy | Pharrell Williams
- Happy | Pharrell Williams
- Hit the Road Jack | Ray Charles
- I Feel Good | James Brown
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine | Marvin Gaye
- I Want It That Way | Backstreet Boys
- I Want You Back | Jackson Five
- I Will Survive | Gloria Gaynor
- I'm Your Baby Tonight | Whitney Houston
- Just My Imagination | The Temptations
- Just the Two of Us | Bill Withers
- Just the Way You Are | Bruno Mars
- Just the Way You Are | Billy Joel
- Killing Me Softly with His Song | Fugees
- Lean On Me | Bill Withers
- Let It Be | The Beatles
- Let It Go | Idina Menzel (from Disney's Frozen)
- Let's Stay Together | Al Green
- Levitating | Dua Lipa
- Lovely Day | Bill Withers
- Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan
- Mamma Mia | ABBA
- Manhattan | Ella Fitzgerald
- Moon River | Henry Mancini
- Moondance | Van Morrison
- My Favorite Things | Rodgers and Hammerstein(Sound of Music)
- Nature Boy | Michael Jackson
- New York State of Mind | Billy Joel
- No Scrubs | TLC
- Only the Good Die Young | Billy Joel
- Ordinary People | John Legend
- Overjoyed | Stevie Wonder
- Overjoyed | Stevie Wonder
- Piano Man | Billy Joel
- Poker Face | Lady Gaga
- Put Your Records On | Corinne Bailey Rae
- Rehab | Amy Winehouse
- Respect | Aretha Franklin
- River Flows in You | Yiruma
- Rock With You | Michael Jackson
- Rock Your Body | Justin Timberlake
- Rocket Man | Elton John
- Runaway Baby | Bruno Mars
- Santeria | Sublime
- Senorita | Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
- September | Earth, Wind & Fire
- Shake It Off | Taylor Swift
- Shape of You | Ed Sheeran
- Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay | Otis Redding
- Smooth Operator | Sade
- So Sick | Ne-Yo
- Someone Like You | Adele
- Son of a Preacher Man | Dusty Springfield
- Sorry | Justin Bieber
- Stairway to Heaven | Led Zeppelin
- Stand By Me | Ben E. King
- Step Into Christmas | Elton John
- Sunday Morning | Maroon 5
- Superstition | Stevie Wonder
- Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond
- Take Five | Dave Brubeck
- The Way You Look Tonight | Frank Sinatra
- Thinking Out Loud | Ed Sheeran
- Thinking Out Loud | Ed Sheeran
- Uptown Funk | Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
- Use Me | Bill Withers
- Valerie | Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
- Virtual Insanity | Jamiroquai
- Viva La Vida | Coldplay
- Waiting in Vain | Bob Marley
- Waiting On The World To Change | John Mayer
- Watermelon Sugar | Harry Styles
- What a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong
- What's Going On | Marvin Gaye
- When You Wish Upon a Star | Leigh Harline (from Pinocchio)
- Where Are You Going | Dave Matthews Band
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