AUTHOR ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Author Articles & Reviews features blog posts written by Melanie focusing on her publications, compositions, and reviews, as well as reviews she has penned about various publications and concerts.
Author Articles
Anthem For A New Age: Coronation 2023
International Women’s Week: Composing For Schott Music
Most Popular Posts of The Year 2022
Music Teacher Associations and Webinar Events
Queen Elizabeth II and the Ghosts of Windsor Castle
Forget-Me-Not: A Birthday Gift!
Women Composer – A Graded Anthology For Piano: Pianist Magazine Competition and Schott Interview
First Repertoire For Little Pianists Webinar
First Repertoire For Little Pianists
Women Composers – A Graded Anthology For Piano
10th Anniversary Celebrations and The Classical Conversations Series
Snapchats Duets & Trios: New Recordings by Christopher Norton
Happy New Year: 10 Years Blogging
Lost in Thought: Practice Tips
An Angel’s Footsteps: A Birthday Gift
Chetham’s International Summer School Piano Teacher’s Course 2021
Pianist Magazine’s New Online Piano Courses
Chakra Suite for Clarinet and Piano
Jackdaws Piano Courses 2020/2021
Quarantine or Paradise: an interview with GéNIA
Simply Driven: 5 Virtuoso Pieces
Piano Workshops in Newcastle and York
A Piano Course in Frome & Chamber Music in Tokyo
A New Year and a New You. The Art of Manifesting
Play it again workshop in Frankfurt
International Women’s Day: the pianist as composer
Workshop at Millers Music and Tommy’s Piano Corner
No Words Necessary: 12 Original Pieces
A Piano Day at Ackerman’s Music Shop
New Piano Courses at Finchcocks
The 70th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival
Best Piano Resource Nomination
A few thoughts on publishing houses: a tour of Oxford University Press
Workshop for the Performing Arts Festival in Singapore
Polishing your piano technique: Jackdaws course 2018
Play it again: PIANO Review and Launch
A Student’s Memories: Patricia Carroll (1932 – 2017)
A Second Weekend at Jackdaws Music Education Trust
Meet the Judges: Live streamed event from Chicago
So You Want To Play The Piano? 2015 Publication
Judging the Chicago Amateur Piano Competition 2016
The Classical Conversation Series
A Weekend at Jackdaws Music Education Trust
Piano Course at Jackdaws Music Education Trust
Bilingual Master Classes in Germany
Piano Bench Mag Feature Article and Interview
Carnival of the Animals for Two Pianos
Improvisation on a Bach Chorale for Two Pianos by Busoni
Second Anniversary of the Classical Conversations Series
My First Article for Pianist Magazine – Get your copy here!
BBC Radio Three Counties Interview
It’s all about piano! Piano festival at the French Institute
My life as a guest entertainer
Reviews
Miniatures for Piano by Robert Bruce
Murray McLachlan plays Sonata No. 5 by John McLeod
Review in Pianofforte Magazine for Faber Music
Mastering the piano series by Lang Lang for Faber Music
Piano Bench Mag Celebrating it’s First Anniversary
Simultaneous Learning: The Definitive Guide by Paul Harris
Charles Owen’s Recital for Rhinegold LIVE
Andrew Litton at Rhinegold LIVE
Rhinegold LIVE Concert Series opens in style
The Art of Piano Fingering by Rami Bar-Niv
Alicia’s Gift: the Concert of the Novel
The Magic Link – a book review
‘Divine Fire’ at the Radcliffe Centre in Buckingham
Hungarian Dances at The Musical Museum
The Yellow Lounge with Valentina Lisitsa in Paris
Royal Overseas League 2013 Final
A life in music…Ruth Nye and the Arrau Heritage
It’s all about the piano – a piano festival with a difference
In Harmony Lambeth Winter Concert
BBC Radio 3 Piano Gala for Children in Need
Holiday Posts
Happy Christmas! And a trip down memory lane…
Melanie Spanswick 