Phillip Sear is a pianist of many parts - improviser of background music, accompanist, repetiteur, and solo recitalist. He is available for civil wedding ceremonies, wedding receptions, and corporate function; he can also play for rehearsals of opera or music theatre productions. Or he can accompany singers or instrumentalists, contributing solos from his large repertoire of rarely-heard and hard-to-obtain 19th and early 20th century piano music.

Whilst at school in Mid-Sussex Phillip Sear studied piano and organ, and gained early experience as a rehearsal pianist for school Gilbert & Sullivan productions. He went on to study Maths and Music at Royal Holloway, London, graduating with a First in 1976.

He then took several years out of concentrated music-making to qualify as an accountant in the City of London. While continuing his City career, in the 1980s he gradually returned to piano playing, first as accompanist to operatic societies for musical theatre and operetta productions, then as rehearsal pianist for Sussex opera groups, including New Sussex Opera, Regency Opera, and Heber Opera.

Phillip Sear attended Martino Tirimo's advanced piano class at Morley College for some years, and has given public or workshop performances of solo works by many neglected composers. A list of some of the composers he has championed is given below. He has also accompanied singers and instrumentalists in concerts in London and the South East.

As a provider of background music, Phillip Sear has played at corporate receptions at Trinity House, parties, and many wedding receptions, principally at Newick Park Country Estate. Sample tapes are available on request.

List of some composers whose solo piano works Phillip Sear plays:

Charles Martin (of Greenwich), Franz Hünten, Charles Mayer, Ignaz Moscheles, Henri Rosellen, Francesco Berger, Réné Favarger, Vincent Wallace, Adolf Jensen, Anton Rubinstein, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Viteslav Novak, Sergei Liapunov, Cyril Scott, Liza Lehmann, Maurice Besly, Ion Aulay, Erik Chisholm, John Heath, Emil Sjögren, Erkki Melartin, Rae da Costa, Leo Livens, Alec Rowley, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Joaquin Turina. On the lighter side: Rae da Costa, Zez Confrey, Ernesto Lecuona, Billy Mayerl, Franz Vienna.