Pianist

CLASSICAL SOLOIST

Rexleigh’s career as a professional pianist included performances with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Herbert Soudant (Chopin e minor concerto), Dalia Atlas (Prokoviev 3rd concerto) and Victor Yampolsky (Ravel G Major concerto). More of her solo work can be heard in the Classic FM interview People of Note, featured on the main Performance page of this website.

Conductor Viktor Yampolsky and professional classical pianist Rexleigh Bunyard after the performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra in 1987.

CABARET ACCOMPANIST

Rexleigh has a particular love for French Chansons and worked with vocalist Claudine Gunzburg in a duo called Claudine and Leigh in the mid 1980’s, in Cape Town and surrounds.

IMPROVISATIONS

Two solo free improvisations created in 2020

Bittersweet in favour of sweetness : free improvisation by Rexleigh Bunyard 2019

The Nameless : free improvisation by Rexleigh Bunyard 2019

Improvisations in the duo TANDEM: Rexleigh with cellist extraordinaire Francois (Ha!Man) le Roux.

Improvisation for St Valentine, at a private concert in Johannesburg where Rexleigh and Francois performed popular tango-themed music.

FÜR ELISE (with apologies to Beethoven) in memoriam Lisa Melman.