ANZCA (Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts Limited) are a music examination board popular across Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. Based in Australia, they have been operating since 1938. ANZCA offers comprehensive programmes for most instruments and this year they have just published a new piano syllabus. There are three syllabus…
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Margaret Lyell and her Piano Concerto Part 4: Julian Jacobson
Pianist and teacher Julian Jacobson has written this post which marks the fourth in a series dedicated to the piano concerto composed by his mother Margaret Lyell. Julian will be performing the piece tomorrow night in Birmingham: to find out more and purchase your ticket to this event, click here. And so the abstract score…
Margaret Lyell and her Piano Concerto Part 3: Julian Jacobson
Pianist and teacher Julian Jacobson continues this series focusing on his mother’s music (pictured above), and specifically her piano concerto which he will be performing on May 30th at the CBSO Centre Birmingham with the Romantic Revival Orchestra and conductor Tommaso Nista. You can purchase your tickets for this concert by clicking here. In this…
Margaret Lyell and her Piano Concerto Part 1: Julian Jacobson
Pianist and teacher Julian Jacobson is my guest writer for this bank holiday post. Julian is no stranger to my blog having written many interesting and informative articles and several guest series. This new series will focus on his mother Margaret Lyell (pictured above), and more specifically, her piano music. As a musician and writer…
Schott Student Edition: Album pour les tout-petits by Mélanie Bonis
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…
Music & Drama Education Expo 2025
I’m looking forward to the Music & Drama Education Expo in London next week. This two-day event is held every year and has been through several transformations since its inception twelve years ago. According to its website, the Expo consists of ‘a mix of practical workshops, CPD sessions, seminars and networking for music and drama…
New RSL Awards Classical Piano Exam Repertoire
For the past eighteen months I’ve been working with the music examination board RSL Awards. RSL are renowned for their rock and pop exams known as Rockschool. This arm of their work is popular the world over but probably less known is their classical exam syllabus. They published the classical piano exam syllabus in 2020…