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Summer Swee-Singh is a classically-trained, award-winning pianist / keyboardist, music arranger, composer, string contractor, ensemble leader, music director, backing vocalist, and music educator. Masterful in a variety of genres, the UC Berkeley alumna performs classical crossover, rock, pop, hip-hop, electronic, indie, rap, reggae, neo-soul, funk, folk-pop, and more, as a solo pianist as well as a session and touring keyboardist.
Summer has performed with notable artists at prominent festivals, prestigious showcases, famed venues, and on national television including Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (Indio, 2026), Outside Lands Music Festival (San Francisco, 2023), Lollapalooza (Chicago, 2025), Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts (Montreal, 2025), World Expo 2020 – Dubai (December 2021, UAE), Stateside Festival (Kingston, 2026), Festival des Guitares du Monde (FGMAT 2024, Quebec), Spotify Live Room (2025), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2019), Rose Bowl Stadium (Pasadena), Fenway Park (Boston – 5x), Oracle Park (San Francisco), Wrigley Field (Chicago – 2x), Citi Field (Queens), Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas), Coors Field (Denver – 2x), Oracle Park (San Francisco), T-Mobile Park (Seattle – 2x), BC Place (Vancouver, BC), Petco Park (San Diego), Banc of California Stadium (Los Angeles), Snapdragon Stadium (San Diego), Rogers Center (Toronto, ON), PNC Park (Pittsburgh), Rogers Stadium (Toronto, ON), T-Mobile Center (Kansas City), Rice-Eccles Stadium (Salt Lake City), America First Field (Sandy), Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia), Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati), Nationals Park (Washington D.C.), Carter-Finley Stadium (Raleigh), Truist Park (Atlanta), Busch Stadium (St. Louis), Globe Life Field (Arlington), Target Field (Minneapolis), Kia Center (Orlando), Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Chicago (Tinley Park), The Shrine Expo Hall (Los Angeles), Terminal 5 (New York City), Egyptian Room at Old National Centre (Indianapolis), etc. for live audiences of up to 75,000 people and her studio credits have racked up more than 230 million streams; her studio/touring credits as a pianist/keyboardist, arranger (strings/keys/orchestral), composer, string contractor, flutist, and/or backing vocalist include the likes of Gigi Perez, Polyphia, Bebe Rexha, Circa Survive, KSHMR, Chon, Barry Can’t Swim, Naia Izumi, Roddy Ricch, Myles Smith, Anthony Green, Keiynan Lonsdale, Chief Keef, Kings Elliot, Mothé, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Lari Basilio, Thunder Jackson, Aespa, Alexandra Shipp, Psychic Barber, Dayseeker / Rory Rodriguez, Rob Scallon, Giada Valenti, Love, Alexa, Jahmiu, Nikitaa, Ariel Bellvalaire, Ginny Luke, Gashi, and more.
The likes of Skrillex, Matt Bellamy (of Muse), Anthony Green, Ed Banger Records, Polyphia, Mike Sapone, Campa (of the Cataracs), Steinway & Sons, Dustin Kensrue, Arnold Schwarzenegger, MainlyPiano, Audiomack, Buzzfeed, The Daily What, etc., have reposted and/or praised her instrumental arrangements and compositions resulting in Summer amassing over 2.5 million YouTube video views and 30,000 combined total followers on her various social media profiles (Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook), from her self-produced videos.
Summer has additionally been interviewed by LA Weekly, Pianist Magazine, Pianote, Voyage LA, Shoutout LA, etc. and was featured in a Jubilee video titled “Musicians Rank Themselves by Talent” which then received positive coverage from the likes of TwoSetViolin and ImDontai.
Summer also founded and leads an all-female ethnically-diverse piano and string ensemble (as its sole pianist and string arranger/composer), called “Summer Swee-Singh & the Heartstrings”, comprised of a rotating roster of top-notch string players based in LA, NYC, and ATX, and herself; she and her ensemble can be hired for studio work, music videos, and tours / live one-off performance, working directly with the artist, producers, or management. Summer is additionally the co-founder, music director, pianist/keyboardist, and orchestral arranger for Slapback Club (a trio comprised of Miren Edelstein, Anna Sentina, and Summer), also available to hire for studio and live/touring work.
Having performed as a soloist for crowds up to 10,000 people and having been interviewed and featured in LA Weekly (2012), Summer has become known a modern master of both performance and arranging–especially arranging medleys. She is also known as the “Piano DJ” because of her ability to seamlessly transition from piece to piece and genre to genre on the piano, much like a live DJ set. Aside from writing arrangements and performing, Summer discovered her love for composing in 2016. As a composer, Summer has been praised by the likes of Richard Clayderman, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Jonathan Estabrooks (Host of Classical Crossover Radio International), Joachim Horsley, and Kathy Parsons of Mainly Piano, among others. In 2016, Summer released her debut, piano-driven album of original pieces titled “Summer Swee-Singh & the Crazy 88”, and in 2017, she released her first professional music video for her composition “JFN (with Prelude)”. She released a collaborative album with Anthony Green in 2019, titled “Would You Still Be With Strings (feat. Summer Swee-Singh)”. Summer’s unique background, innate melodic sense, and passion for her work shine through in every note she plays and every melody she composes.
A music-adjacent project, Summer additionally founded and runs the AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Musicians blog and its corresponding Instagram; the blog website and Instagram account launched in May 2021 to kick off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). Since then she has interviewed 75+ professional AAPI musicians, music creators, and touring and industry professionals to feature–highlighting the stories and music of different AAPI artists, studio and touring musicians, composers, producers, engineers, backline techs, artist management, and music directors, in hopes to further representation and build a recognizable, collaborative, progressive, and inspiring AAPI community within the music industry. She upkeeps the blog with new interviews every May.
Summer also was a NEXT Class of 2021 program participant and additionally mentored for Diversify the Stage in 2021. Summer was awarded the Young Alumni Rising Star Award by The Webb Schools in 2022.
