Summer Swee-Singh is a composer, music arranger, pianist, keyboardist, string contractor, music director, backing vocalist, and music educator based out of Orange County (Greater Los Angeles Area), California. At the age of twelve, Summer became the youngest person to pass the Level 5 Yamaha Music School’s piano performance and theory examination which earned her a Yamaha Music School Teaching Credential. She was both a violinist and pianist in high school as a part of The Webb Schools’ Honors String Sinfonia and was the official Vivian Webb Chapel pianist from 2004-2007, additionally performing as the pit orchestra pianist for Webb’s productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” (2006) and “Company” (2007). In spring of 2007, she took 1st place in the Claremont Region and 2nd place overall in the subsequent Southern California Regional of the Dan Stover Music Competition, having performed Chopin’s “Fantasie Impromptu”. Summer graduated from Vivian Webb in 2007 as Senior Class President and went on to attend UC Berkeley for her undergraduate degree. While at UC Berkeley, she also was the pianist and timpanist in a chamber orchestra for one semester and also took three semesters of African Drumming—two semesters of which she helped TA the class. From her sophomore undergraduate year onward, she stopped focusing on classical music and began working on classical crossover arrangements of modern pop, rock, hip-hop, electronica, etc., as well as playing in three different bands of just as varied genres. While Summer kept music as a large part of her extracurricular life in college, she then had her sights set on law school. She ended up studying abroad at the University of Cambridge for the summer quarter of 2010 as part of the Pembroke-King’s Programme before she graduated from UC Berkeley that December with a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and a Music Minor. After earning her bachelor’s degree, but prior to deciding to pursue a career in music, Summer worked full-time at the San Francisco office of Jones Day, and it was not until late 2014, when Summer moved to Southern California after a year abroad, that she decided to pursue a full-time career in music.

As she was transitioning into a music career, she was asked to perform for two TEDx events—TEDxUCSD 2013 in a piano-violin duo (“Dubutantes”, with violinist Miren Edelstein) and as a solo pianist at TEDxCambridgeUniversity 2014, while performing publicly and privately at luxury resorts across Southern California. Some of Summer’s notable private performance clientele include Sumner Redstone, Michael & Lydia Kives, Jerome & Nancy Felton, Keenan & Ciandra Allen, Wilmer Valderrama, etc. She also runs an all-female-identifying orchestral, studio/touring/luxury event ensemble who can be hired to perform alongside her, called “Summer Swee-Singh & the Heartstrings”. Summer is additionally the pianist of the luxury event piano-violin duo Yas & Sum and is the music director and keyboardist for the instrumental trio Slapback Club. Summer has held solo piano residencies throughout the years at the following establishments: Double Barrel Wine Bar (Livermore), Sliver Pizzeria (Berkeley), Balboa Bay Resort (Newport Beach), Newport Dunes Resort (Newport Beach), Citrus City Grille – Orange, SoHo House – West Hollywood, and Pendry Newport Beach.

NOTABLE STUDIO & TOURING / LIVE CREDITS (CV)

2017

• Alexandra Shipp – local shows (pianist / keyboardist, backing vocalist)
• Circa Survive – fall headline tour [partial] (keyboardist, string arranger & contractor)
• Until the Ribbon Breaks – collaborative studio release (pianist, string arranger & contractor)

2018

• Anthony Green – “Would You Still Be In Love” studio release (pianist, string arranger & contractor)
• Anthony Green – Avalon 10yr anniversary tour [partial] (keyboardist, flutist, string arranger & contractor)
• Chief Keef – Trap Symphony (pianist)
• Polyphia – New Levels New Devils medley (collaborative marketing–pianist, string arrangements)
• Chon – Holiday Tour (music director, keyboardist, string arranger & contractor, conductor, backing vocalist)

2019

• Anthony Green – “Would You Still Be With Strings (feat. Summer Swee-Singh)” studio release (pianist, flutist, composer, orchestral arranger + contractor)
• Roddy Ricch – Trap Symphony, Live at Peppermint Club (keyboardist)
• Bebe Rexha – “You Can’t Stop the Girl” on The Ellen Show (pianist)
• KSHMR – “Chords of KSHMR, Vol. 1: Summer Swee-Singh” – Splice beat pack collaborative release (co-composer)

2020

• Dayseeker / Rory Rodriguez – charity performance (keyboardist)
• Thunder Jackson – “Caroline” studio release (string arranger)
• grp – studio releases (pianist, producer, founding band member, string arranger)

2021

• Mothe – local shows (keyboards)
• Keiynan Lonsdale – local show (keyboards)
• Naia Izumi – local performances (keyboardist), World Expo 2020 performance (keyboardist)

2022

• Pianote – “Arranging for Solo Piano” course Coach (online course designer/educator for Musora)
• Naia Izumi – A Residency in the Los Angeles Area studio release (celeste, keyboardist, pianist)
• Polyphia – “Playing God (Acoustic)” studio release (pianist)
• grp – local show (keyboardist, music director, band member, creative director)
• Kings Elliot – US/CAN stadium/arena/amphitheatre tour opening for Macklemore and Imagine Dragons (keyboardist & triggers)
• Slapback Club – National Anthem performance at SD Wave FC’s sold-out inaugural game at Snapdragon Stadium (music director & keyboardist)
• Rob Scallon – “Song for Some Friends” (string arranger & contractor)

2023

• Nikitaa – local shows (keyboardist, music director
• Aespa – Outside Lands performance (keyboardist)
• myah – live studio release (music director, keyboardist, backing vocalist)
• Myles Smith – “Solo” studio release (string arranger & contractor)

2024

• Anthony Green – “I Don’t Want to Die by Strings” (pianist, string arranger & contractor)
• Giada Valenti – local show (pianist, ensemble leader)
• Lari Basilio – local show and Festival des Guitares du Monde performance (keyboardist)
• Jahmiu – “Silver Lake River” studio release (string arranger & contractor, flutist)
• Rob Scallon – “You & Me” studio release (string arranger & contractor, keyboardist)
• Pandora/SiriusXM – Rock & Rap Music Analyst II (FTE)
• Lip Critic – remote tour manager

2025

• Barry Can’t Swim – Lollapalooza (Chicago), Osheaga, and Spotify Live Room performances (auxiliary keyboardist)
• Myrone – local studio release show (auxiliary keyboards)

2026

• Gigi Perez – Coachella Festival performance (keyboards), Stateside Festival performance (keyboardist)
• Gigi Perez – summer tour direct support for Noah Kahan on Great Divide North American Tour (keyboards)