Jason began his piano lessons at the age of five. While growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, he continued pursuing his love of music by playing bass in his high school's Jazz Band and singing in Jazz Choir. Jason has been a resident of Orlando for nearly 20 years, and began his Dueling Piano career in 2009. He has performed all over Florida as well as internationally. After being mentored by the best in the business, he decided to branch out on his own and in 2020, created The Copper Piano.
Tyler Robinson
Tyler Robinson brings 10 years of professional experience to the table. Originally from Illinois, he has called Florida home for 7 years. Having played various venues around the country, including bars, restaurants, retirement homes, private parties, grocery stores, theme parks and resorts, he brings a wide variety of music, and entertainment value to any event! From the 40s to now, he will try almost anything!
Ddendyl
Her unique name might be what is remembered first, but when you hear the small town girl with the giant voice sing, everything about singer/ songwriter Ddendyl Hoyt becomes unforgettable.
Born in South Carolina but raised in rural Western New York, Ddendyl began her musical career as a child studying classical violin, opera and teaching herself the piano. She grew up listening to Gospel and Country, being inspired by artists such as Johnny Cash and Reba McEntire. Ddendyl’s compelling voice and emotional storytelling, make for an authentic musical mix of rock, pop, and blues.
Ddendyl has opened for artists such as Hunter Hayes, Scotty McCreery, Collective Soul, Sebastian Mikael, Elle Varner, and along side colleagues for Justin Moore following her appearances on Season 6 of NBC’s “The Voice”. In addition, Batavia Daily News named Ddendyl the “2014 Artist of the Year” for Western New York. Ddendyl was also named the Nash Next 2017 New York Winner and most recently the 2021 Henderson, NV Battle of the Bands winner.
For the last decade Ddendyl has held multiple performance residencies in Las Vegas, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington DC. She also performs for weddings, corporate and private events nation wide.
Scott Lyles
Scott is a high energy musician originally from Tennessee. He has over ten years of experience performing on cruise ships, country clubs, restaurants, and dueling piano bars all over the country. His vast repertoire of hits spanning the past 100 years provides an element of variety to his show most musicians don't have. When you come into the piano bar with Scott, you can expect a fun environment with all requests, sing-a-longs and many laughs throughout the night.
Josh Grimes
From Tallahassee Florida, Josh has been performing his entire life, hitting the stage as an infant. Briefly working with bands from the label of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Josh was introduced to the world of touring and has been hooked since. Recently coming off a 4 year touring stint with Grammy Winner Trae Pierce, Josh has been using Orlando as his home base for entertaining. With over 15 instruments under his belt, he has found a passion in keyboards.
Donovan Peters
Donovan is an accomplished and critically acclaimed pianist/keyboardist, composer and singer. He is a favorite performer in many upscale hotels, resorts, Cruise ships and “Dueling Piano” bars across the US, Europe and the Caribbean. He was one of the original players who opened Pat O'Briens at Universal Studios in 1998.
Over the years, Donovan has had the privilege of working with some legendary stars of the music industry, including Andy Williams and Della Reese. During his time in Chicago, he was fortunate enough to play with some of Chicago’s iconic blues greats.
Donovan has done guest appearances with smooth jazz artists like Steve Reid (formerly of the 70’s multi-Grammy groups ABBA and SUPERTRAMP and founding member of smooth jazz and Grammy Award winning group The Rippington’s), as well as smooth jazz solo artist Jeff Kashawa and many others.
As for his dueling piano performances, Donovan currently performs nationwide as well as internationally with some of the best players in the business, in the some of the most premier venues from Las Vegas to LA… from New York to the Caribbean and Europe. He is the epitome of FUN as he solidly performs Pop, Rock, Classic R&B/Soul, Motown, Country, Blues and timeless standards from artists known and embraced by generations. You say it…He’ll play it!
