I’ve been compiling and editing editions for the Schott student study series for a while and we have already published three volumes: click here to find out more. All my contributions to this series focus on highlighting music by female composers. I try to mix it up and combine the piano works of more well-known…
Tag: Elementary Piano Music
Lucky Charms For Piano and Harp
Lucky Charms is a collection of 21 elementary piano pieces. Published by 80 Days Publishing, the collection consists of works from preparatory (or pre-Grade 1) to approximately Grade 2 standard of the British exam board syllabus levels. Many of the pieces were previously written for Pianist Magazine, for whom I write an elementary piano piece…
New Piano Repertoire for the New Academic Year
It’s a new academic year and this means new piano repertoire. Today’s post focuses on educational piano repertoire which you may be interested in acquiring either for yourself or for your students. Earlier this month a new volume of Christmas music was released by US company Willis Music. I started working with Willis last year….
Forget-Me-Not: A Birthday Gift
Today is my birthday, and, as has been the custom over the past couple of years, I’m offering a free elementary piece for you to download and enjoy. ‘Forget-Me-Not’ was written a few years ago, and then re-written in 2021. It’s often the case that I ‘revisit’ pieces at a later date and alter them…
Snapchats Duets & Trios: New recordings by Christopher Norton
Snapchats was originally a collection of short piano duets which was published a few years ago. The volume was republished and updated in 2019, with the inclusion of extra duets and piano trios. This new version has proved popular with both children and adult students and I always enjoy using them in my own sight-reading…
An Angel’s Footsteps: A Birthday Gift
Today is my birthday, and I want to offer a birthday gift as part of the celebrations, which are certainly low-key this year, as might be expected! For those who teach the piano, or are just learning to play, I hope this free download will provide useful repertoire material. I wrote ‘An Angel’s Footsteps’ a…