Reuel — Sideways

Reuel’s wide-ranging talent as a pianist gives every note he plays a unique resonance. He has years of experience in the worlds of classical, pop, film scoring and electronic dance music, allowing him to move smoothly between genres. He may be based in Las Vegas, but Reuel’s true home is the mansion of music he’s created with his keyboards, compositions and thrilling performances.

Reuel, regularly performs for performance arts centers and has performed his crossover piano show “Reuel Live” at Aria, Wynn, Fashion Show Mall, The Venetian, Caesar’s Palace, Four Seasons, and many other popular destinations on The Strip. Reuel also performs internationally with tours in South America, Asia, French Polynesia, and Canada.

This summer, he will travel to Turkey to perform as part of the Turkcell Platinum Istanbul Night Flight along with actor, director, and producer John Malkovich’s “The Music Critics Show”, Grammy-winner Yo-Yo Ma, and film score composer Joachim Horsley.

“My live shows are all over the place in style, size and structure,” Reuel explains. “I perform concerts of solo classical material, as well as solo pop piano with backing tracks. I have a five-piece pop band and a classically trained trio, with a cellist and violinist. We can play live, or augment the performance with produced backing tracks. I customize each show to what is needed, or affordable, for the venue or client. I’m continually adding more original music to my shows, along with creative arrangements of popular music. I’m always looking for ways to present my music in the biggest, most straightforward fashion.”

Reuel first caught the ears of the pop world in 2018 with album of iconic themes from Classical literature reimagined for solo piano, appropriately titled Classical. The album featured “‘Für Elise’ as You’ve Never Heard It” (Blogcritics) and rendition of “Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat minor”.

He followed later that year with a holiday themed album First Snow, featuring the original title track “a delicate, haunting tune with sweet string arpeggiations and whispery, lush vocals” (- Parade Magazine) that “updates his classic piano training, creating an approachable take on sophisticated instrumental.”(- Popdust)

In 2019, Reuel released Transformation (Lucky Hound Music), his sixth album that combines electronic dance tracks with piano melodies played in a classical style.

On the single “Polarized” the video finds Reuel, “giving his all as he delights us with this perfect blend of modern and classic, almost like Ludovico Einaudi and Pendulum teamed up and produced a song, this would be pretty much the result.” (-Vents Magazine)

Reuel ventures into the experimental world of Drum & Bass with “Polarized”: “I worked closely with electronic music producer Jordan Kolar to achieve the correct drums and sound design to successfully accompany an active lead piano melody.”

It also provided an opportunity for Reuel to revisit an unfinished melody creating the “perfect opportunity to turn this melody into a modern piano piece with added orchestral flare and sound design that invokes the vast beauty of nature” on the song “Earth Addictions.”

“Earth Addictions” has already reached over 100,000 plays on the official Apple Music playlist Classicaltronics.

Reuel continues to expand his portfolio of original material and reimagined cover arrangements in 2020.