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Victoria Proudler: Piano Grades are Go!
17th Oct 2024
Victoria Proudler talks about her series 'Piano Grades are Go!', and offers advice on taking music examinations. Read the full interview here.
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The First Piano Recital: Preparing Your Beginners For A Performance
2nd Oct 2024
Award-winning author Melanie Spanswick discusses supporting your students in their first piano recital.
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James Heather on Pulse Music
28th Aug 2024
Ahead of his performance at Presto Music tonight, the British composer-pianist talks to us about forging his own creative path, how a near-death experience affected his relationship with the piano, and his musical inspirations (ranging from Nirvana to Michael Nyman).
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Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026
6th Jun 2024
Now available, ABRSM's Piano Syllabuses for 2025 & 2026 feature refreshed repertoire lists with wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque and Classical to pop, stage and screen. Find out more.
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ABRSM Piano Star Series
16th Feb 2024
Piano Star is a series of repertoire books to inspire young pianists and help them to develop their musical skills. Find out more.
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Yiruma: SOLO
1st Dec 2023
Recently published by Faber Music, Yiruma's album SOLO is now available as a sheet music collection, in both original and simplified arrangements. The composer kindly took the time to answer our questions about his latest project and to discuss his background in classical music. Read the full interview here.
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Notebook for Johann Christian Bach
31st Oct 2023
The Notebook for Johann Christian Bach completes the collection of surviving instructional works from within the Bach family, following the highly praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Together, Bach’s Notebooks provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. Find out more.
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New Piano Exam Materials
8th Sep 2023
This week has seen the release of new piano publications for both ABRSM and Trinity College exams, with additional repertoire added to the Trinity exam syllabus, and two new piano collections for intermediate to advanced students by Isata Kanneh-Mason. Find out more.
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Expanding the Repertoire: Music of Black Composers by Leah Claiborne | Solo Piano
15th Aug 2023
Hal Leonard's Expanding the Repertoire series aims to bring previously unsung piano literature to students and teachers for memorable discoveries. Find out more.
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40 Years of Microjazz
18th Jul 2023
This year Boosey & Hawkes are celebrating forty years of the bestselling series Microjazz. Find out more.
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Andrew Eales on Naoko Ikeda: The Graded Collection
8th Jun 2023
Naoko Ikeda has composed many appealing piano works, introducing the world to the essence of Japan through music. Find out more.
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Daniel Grimwood on Adolph von Henselt
27th Apr 2023
Editor Daniel Grimwood is one of Adolph von Henselt's most highly regarded interpreters. After recently completing a new edition of Henselt's Etudes with Edition Peters, Daniel kindly took some time to talk to me about the new Urtext edition and the composer Adolph von Henselt.
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The Jazzin' About Piano Anthology
13th Apr 2023
The Jazzin’ About Piano Anthology celebrates Pam Wedgwood’s best-selling series in a collection of the author’s favourite pieces. Presented progressively for the first time in one volume, pieces range from early elementary to intermediate level. Find out more.
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Teachers' Choice, Selected Piano Repertory & Studies
26th Jan 2023
Containing popular choice pieces and alternative works from the ABRSM Piano syllabus, these pieces have been specially selected for examination purposes and general repertoire study. Teachers' Choice 2023 & 2024 offers teaching points and performance directions that help to develop technical assurance and stylistic awareness in the students.
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Easy Composer Series: My First Schubert
30th Aug 2022
Schott's Easy Composer Series features a wide selection of easier pieces by well-known composers, ideally suited to pianists looking to expand their repertoire, and perfect for music lessons and playing at home. The latest in the series, My First Schubert, is the perfect introduction to Romantic piano music. Find out more.
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Ethel Smyth: Complete Piano Works
28th Jun 2022
In this new collection by Breitkopf & Härtel, Ethel Smyth's complete piano works are arranged in order of progressive difficulty, shedding light on an often-overlooked part of Smyth's oeuvre. Find out more here.
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Women Composers: A Graded Anthology for Piano
24th Mar 2022
An indispensable addition to lessons and concerts, this three-volume series of piano music by women composers is a progressive compendium of educational literature. Featuring repertoire from the 17th century to the present day, each work includes additional biographical notes on the composers. Find out more here.
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HerStory: The Piano Collection
8th Mar 2022
Coinciding with International Women's Day, Karen Marshall's latest publication HerStory: The Piano Collection is now available. An invaluable resource for pianists, HerStory includes repertoire by remarkable female composers across the ages.
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ABRSM: Signature Series
17th Feb 2022
ABRSM's Signature Series is a range of authoratative performing editions of piano works, researched and edited by leading scholars. Find out more here.
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Ludovico Einaudi: Underwater
25th Jan 2022
Einaudi’s first full solo piano album for twenty years is a manifesto for life and a statement for the time when the world around him was quiet and silent. This beautiful matching folio features the album's twelve intimate piano tracks. Find out more here.
