Bruce Hebenton Graham

Born and educated in Dundee, Scotland, Bruce moved his base to London in 1961 to study and work with some of the leading names in music and theatre.

He worked alongside Sir John Dankworth, Dame Cleo Laine, Wayne Sleep, Julian Lloyd-Webber, Jeff Wayne, Ike Isaacs, Frankie Vaughen, Vince Hill, Tommy Steele, Lulu, Faith Brown, Tommy Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.,  Rock Hudson, Juliette Prowse, The Three Degrees, James Cagney and Edmund O'Brien, The Drifters, Buddy Greco, and two decades in West End musicals, incorporating seven shows for Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber, and on the original recording of Les Miserables for the French company.

He has performed on piano, tuned percussion, piano-accordion, orchestrated, and composed for the best of the British Orchestras, including three seasons at the London Palladium, and over fifty shows at the Royal Albert Hall.
     
Bruce has been associated with the following great orchestras.........

The National Philharmonic Orchestra, The London Concert Orchestra, The Miss World Orchestra, The New Bert Kaempfert Orchestra,  The BBC Radio Orchestra, The BBC Big Band, The BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, The BBC Northern Dance Orchestra, The BBC Midland Light Orchestra, The BBC Welsh Orchestra, The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra, The Ronnie Hazelhurst Orchestra, The Geoff Love Orchestra, The Bill Russo London Jazz Orch., The Phil Tate Orchestra, The John Dankworth Orchestra, The  London Palladium Orch.,  The Maynard Ferguson Big Band, The Tommy Steele Concert Orchestra,  The Roy Budd Orchestra, The Harry Leader Orch., The Les Reed Orch., The Len Phillips Orchestra, The Reader's Digest Orchestra, .........etc..          However, there were other enquiries for his services that had to be turned down due to previous work commitments such as tours with Dick Haymes, and Lorna Luft., and The Geraldo Orchestra

Bruce wrote the musical Robbie!, based on the life of the Scottish farmer-poet Robert Burns, which included a short ballet piece, which has now been extended into a complete ballet, and  been accepted by the Royal Scottish Ballet Company.  

In recent years Bruce has concentrated his composing skills towards the classical field, with ten Symphonies, and his Five Innovations For Solo Guitar And Orchestra which was  successfully premiered with shows over two weeks at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010.       It featured the famed Scottish guitar soloist Ged Brockie, and was conducted by the Hollywood film composer Hummie Mann.     It was also later issued as a video. with some interviews of Bruce and the cast included.   You will also find it on YouTube.

Bruce has been the Musical Director of the 18-piece Croydon Jazz Orchestra since 1997, and he still takes out his one-man family show, based on Victor Borge's piano-comedy style.

      
With his vast repertoire, Bruce is the number one call for a solo Piano stylist in the top Hotels and Function rooms in London's West End., such as the Kensington Gardens Suite, The Skyline, The Churchill, The Dorchester, The Mariott Hotel, St John's Wood, The Claremont, Charing Cross, The Leonardo Royal Hotel, St Pauls, The Function Room, Whitehall, The Royal Horseguards Hotel, The London Hilton, The Piccadilly Hotel, The Sheraton, Heathrow, The Holiday Inn Windsor, The Four Seasons, The Intercontinental, The Bonnington, Russell Square Hotel, The Mayfair Hotel, the Cafe De Paris, Le Prive, Les Ambassaddeurs, Quaglino's, The Savoy,  etc.,etc..

Whatever Bruce is involved with is LARGE, and the bigger, the better.     See the Music Page for details of his  SeemFunny Orchestra.

Charles Cleese