Oliver Parikian: Jazz Musician

About me

Songs, arrangements, and piano performances.

I am a South London based jazz pianist, drummer, singer songwriter and composer.

I am currently studying at King’s College London, where I am the president of the jazz society, I am studying arranging, songwriting, and jazz piano with Jay Verma (Olivia Dean, Anatole Muster, Mackwood, Sam Ryder), and I am a member of Tomorrow’s Warriors, an organisation through which I have had the opportunity to learn from some of the greats of the UK Jazz scene such as Denys Baptiste, Ruben Fox and Sultan Stevenson.

As a band leader and songwriter, I have performed at prestigious London venues such as the Spice of Life in Soho and as a pianist I have performed at multiple venues and events including Pizza Express Live, the Vortex Jazz club, A Love Supreme, We Out Here and Cheltenham Jazz festivals, and the Royal Albert Hall.

I have 5 years of arranging experience, for groups ranging from string quartets to big bands to function bands to choirs, and I have been composing for a similar range of groups since I was 15.