What I want is 24-hour turnaround, custom on-demand classical accompaniment — sent to my email as mp3s!
When I’m visiting my parents, it’s not convenient to call around to hire an accompanist to come to my house and play so that my grandmother can hear me sing. (Even worse would be having to get their old piano tuned — yow!) I want a site where I can go to find a real pianist with mad skills who can accept my music by email, record the accompaniment with some basic tempo input from me (preferably using a metronome for accuracy), and email the mp3s right back to me. I’d be thrilled to pay per song, with price tiers for difficulty. The pianist should be technologically savvy, brilliant with piano accompaniment, truly knowledgeable about pauses for breathing and traditional tempos versus accepted variations, friendly, warm, and reliable.
