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Melanie Spanswick

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Guest Articles

A series of random posts written by guest writers on many aspects of pianism and music education.

Music, the confessions of a low middlebrow: Peter Honey

May 29, 2023
My Compositional Journey: Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton

May 14, 2023
Variations on a Procul Theme: Tamara Barschak

April 30, 2023
Improvisation by Design: Susan Staples Bell

March 12, 2023
My Notebooks – A Personal Journey: Angeline Bell

February 11, 2023
Creatively Celebrating Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 150th Anniversary: Garreth Brooke

October 11, 2022
The Craft of Piano Tuning: Eric Tan

July 15, 2022
Birmingham International Piano Competition 2022

June 23, 2022
The concept of Flow in piano practice and performance: David Jones

June 19, 2022
Musical Life at Windsor Castle: Alex Robson

June 12, 2022
The Recording Process: Yuki Negishi

May 15, 2022
Studying at a Music Conservatoire: Evelyn Chang

April 10, 2022
Extreme Heterophony: a study in Javanese Gamelan for one or more pianists – John Pitts

March 20, 2022
12 Ideas to Help Reignite Motivation at the Piano: Lewis Kesterton

March 6, 2022
Compose Yourself! by Alison Mathews

February 20, 2022
Studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam: Yuki Negishi

January 9, 2022
The Thinking Pianist: David Jones

December 19, 2021
MicroJazz Refreshed: Christopher Norton

December 4, 2021
Border Tune by Christopher Norton

October 17, 2021
The Resilient Artist: Rachael Forsyth and Helen Sanderdon-White

October 11, 2021
Montecatini International Piano Competition 2021 | Online Edition

September 5, 2021
Studying in Hong Kong and the USA: Rachel Cheung

August 9, 2021
Go Compose North America Summer Festival 2021: Sonya Knussen

July 25, 2021
Studying at a Japanese Music Conservatoire: Yuki Negishi

July 11, 2021
Beginning Jazz Piano: Tim Richards

June 20, 2021
Studying at a Music Conservatoire: Yuki Negishi

May 23, 2021
The Second Prokofiev Festival: Yulia Chaplina

May 9, 2021
Flipping musical misperceptions on their heads: Erica Sipes

May 2, 2021
My work as a composer: Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton

April 18, 2021
Practice Tips for Exam Pieces: Christopher Norton

April 10, 2021
Compose Yourself!

February 21, 2021
24 Steinways in Cardiff

October 18, 2020
Kindly speaking the truth

July 2, 2020
Pianists From The Past: Lamar Crowson

May 17, 2020
ArtePiano Masterclasses

February 24, 2020
Real Ear Training: A guest post by Roland Perrin

February 21, 2020
Avoiding Apocalypse At All Costs – an interview with Lola Perrin

January 6, 2020
A Grade 7 Journey

August 20, 2019
The Joy of Duets: a guest post by Eleonor Bindman

August 6, 2019
An Interview with Anna Sutyagina

July 26, 2019
The Primrose Piano Quartet record Brahms Piano Quartets

April 26, 2019
How to Make a Professional Recording: 16 Tips

April 7, 2019
The Waco Variations: writing about music

March 18, 2019
Sounds of Intent

January 7, 2019
Beethoven Piano Concerto Project

December 19, 2018
Teaching Improvisation to Groups Part 2 by Christopher Norton

November 17, 2018
“Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit!”*) – Four Famous Composers at the Wiesn**)

October 6, 2018
A Canadian Playlist by Maggie Morrison

September 21, 2018
Teaching Improvisation to Groups by Christopher Norton

September 2, 2018
Composing: An underrated tool in teacher’s toolkits, by Jenni Pinnock

July 22, 2018
At the piano with Phyllis Sellick, by Clara Rodriguez

July 2, 2018
Harpsichord basics by Katharine May

June 23, 2018
Indian Raags for piano, by John Pitts

June 1, 2018
Teaching the tricky intermediate stages, by Karen Marshall

May 21, 2018
My Journey as a Composer by Lindsey Berwin

May 11, 2018
Composing Piano Music: a guest post by John McLachlan

April 25, 2018
Mindfulness in Music: Notes on finding life’s rhythm, by Mark Tanner

April 13, 2018
A New Exam Syllabus for Stringbabies

March 31, 2018
The Inception and Development of PIANO WEEK

March 25, 2018
Honest Insights and Some Forgotten Exercises

March 18, 2018
Intervals – training or teaching?

March 10, 2018
The 1st Birmingham International Piano Chamber Music Festival

March 1, 2018
Guest Post: Andreas Eggertsberger speaks out about Focal Dystonia

January 8, 2018
Chicken Wings

May 16, 2017
Guest Post: 11 ways to kick start your practice routine

March 29, 2017
Guest Post: A Young Pianist’s Journey

January 27, 2017
A Year At A British Music Conservatoire by Lewis Kesterton

October 31, 2016
The Mindful Pianist: An Interview with Mark Tanner

October 25, 2016
The Harpsichord: Guest Post by Katharine May

March 28, 2016
Memories of Moscow: a guest post by Alicja Fiderkiewicz

January 25, 2016
Guest Post: Maintaining Concentration in Piano Playing and Practice

November 24, 2015
Guest Post: Are you all fingers and thumbs?

June 30, 2013
Leeds Lieder Plus Festival: Guest post by Nico de Villiers

October 6, 2012

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