For the consideration of event directors & private clients
Open-format DJ & musical director for weddings, galas, and evenings that ask for more than a playlist.
“The rare DJ who reads a room like a conductor reads a score.”Chicago Event Quarterly
“Our dance floor did not empty once in four hours.”The Langham, Gala Director
“Impeccable taste, impeccable timing, impeccable manners.”Vogue Weddings, Featured Vendor
The Artist
NightHawk began as a classically trained pianist and ended up behind turntables — a detour that explains everything about how he works. Every event is treated as a program: an opening movement, a build, a crescendo timed to the room rather than the clock.
Twelve years and six hundred events later, the approach hasn't changed. He meets every client before the date, studies the guest list like a seating chart, and arrives with a plan he is entirely prepared to abandon the moment the room asks for something better.
He performs open-format — jazz to house, Motown to modern — and carries the technical rig to do it anywhere, from a ballroom of eight hundred to a vineyard with one power outlet.
“The best compliment I receive is that nobody remembers looking at their phone.”
Engagements
The Performance
Highlights from the Whitfield wedding, the Art Institute winter gala, and a rooftop season closer.
Repertoire
Full musical direction from processional to last dance — ceremony sound, cocktail programming, dinner scoring, and the dance floor itself. One musician responsible for the entire arc of the day.
Institutional and corporate evenings where the music must flatter the room, honor the program, and still deliver a genuine dance floor once the speeches end. Discretion and black tie standard.
Milestone birthdays, estate parties, destination weekends. Smaller rooms, closer quarters, and programming built around the host's own record collection when they'll share it.
In Pictures
In Their Words
“We gave him a list of ten songs and a room of two hundred strangers. He gave us a wedding people still bring up at dinner parties, two years on.”Claire & Daniel Whitfield — Wedding, September 2025
“In fourteen years of producing this gala, he is the first DJ I have never once had to think about during the event.”M. Okafor — Director of Events, Field Museum
Particulars
Enquiries
Share the date and the occasion. You'll hear back within one business day with availability and a considered quote.