Mike Gorman

Mike Gorman is a UK based musician,composer and arranger.

As a jazz pianist/organist he has worked/toured with many leading international artists including Marlena Shaw, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Manu Katche, Jimmy Witherspoon, Georgie Fame, China Moses, Scott Hamilton, Bill Watrous, Clare Teal, Stacey Kent & Charles McPherson.

He has also worked with many of the UK’s leading luminaries in the field including Don Weller, Guy Barker, Anita Wardell, Dave Cliff, Alan Skidmore, Bobby Wellins, Art Themen, Danny Moss and is a regular member of The Peter King Quartet & The Jim Mullen Organ Trio.

In the popular & commercial music field, Mike has worked and/or toured with many renowned artists including The Manfreds, Boy George and Culture Club, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Incognito, Us3, Trevor Horn, Lol Creme, Van Morrison, Mica Paris, Gwen McCrea, Rumer, Marty Pellow, Andrea Bocelli, Tom Robinson, Omar, Madeleine Bell, Rebecca Ferguson.

His work as an arranger/composer has been performed internationally by orchestras and big bands including the  Metropole Orkest, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Trier, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Filharmonia Szczecin, Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, Latvian Radio Big Band, WDR Big Band and others.

Mike performed in the BBC Double big band prom in 2017, and was in the Houseband for ITV’s The Imitation Game. He leads his own trio which can be seen at well known UK venues such as Ronnie Scotts Club and The 606 Club and runs his own Big Band for which he writes and/or arranges all the material.

Mike also has a following of over 55,000 people across social media for his educational content about jazz piano.