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Whether you have journeyed here in search of a teacher, mentor, piano accompanist, composer, arranger, writer, or researcher, it’s a joy to welcome you to the David Barton Music website.

My mission is to create and facilitate an environment where you have the opportunity to grow, and to experience all that music offers, no matter where you are on that journey, and no matter how you engage with music.

Catalogue of Compositions & Arrangements

A large catalogue of works is available representing over 100 of my published pieces. Works are available for voice, choir, organ, piano, woodwind and chamber ensemble. Full details, including sheet music and audio samples are available where possible.

Flute, Piano & Singing Lessons

Here in Lichfield, Staffordshire, I offer a range of simple and flexible options to help students learn, all of which centre around creativity and imagination. Lessons can provide a gateway to a whole range of musical experiences, hours of enjoyment, and a lifetime’s fulfilment.

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Latest Blog Posts & Reviews

Review: Graded Piano Anthologies, Grades 5-8 2025-26

I’m always a little wary of published books whose focus is primarily on repertoire for music exams. Exams don’t feature hugely in my teaching, and there are still many teachers around who believe that the exam syllabus…

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Review: Piano Dreaming (Pam Wedgwood)

Piano Dreaming is a brand new publication from one of the world’s most popular composers for the educational market, Pam Wedgwood. Earlier this year, Pam won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Art of Piano…

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Review: The Musical Notebook

Released just in time for your Christmas list, Edition Peters’ The Musical Notebook may be every music-lover’s dream. The Musical Notebook is a high quality, hardback A5 notebook, containing 160 pages of 140gsm ivory cream paper. It…

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Concert Review: Birmingham Bach Choir, The Rainbow Comes & Goes (November 2024)

In many respects, this concert was never going to be easy, as we and a small, but appreciative audience of other music-lovers battled Storm Bert, the German Market and the craziness of the Birmingham Christmas shoppers to…

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🍂 Holding onto autumn for just a little while l

🍂 Holding onto autumn for just a little while longer.

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🌱 It’s incredible to think that in mid-Novemb

🌱 It’s incredible to think that in mid-November, this tiny, delicate rose is still clinging on. As the bitter snow and frost lie around its aching feet, it bows its head in grateful appreciation of seasons now passed. Soon it will lie down in peaceful slumber, drawing us towards the impending dormancy of the winter months ahead.

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✨ Today is celebrated the feast day of St Hilda,

✨ Today is celebrated the feast day of St Hilda, founder and first abbess of the abbey at Whitby. She has something of a special place in my family. From 649, she was the second abbess of Hartlepool Abbey, and some 1,200 years later, my own family settled in Hartlepool, living in St Hilda Street, a short distance from St Hilda’s Church, and the remains of the original abbey.

🌿 Of her, the Venerable Bede wrote ‘all who knew her called her mother because of her outstanding devotion and grace.’ The abbey is long gone, yet her name lives on, a reminder to give thanks for all those who have mothered us with grace and devotion in our own lives.

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✨ Have you ever paused to think about the space

✨ Have you ever paused to think about the space you’re currently in?

🍂 My Word of the Year for 2024 was space. When I chose it, I very much had in mind the notion of physical space, the environment in which we live and work, the home and the places we value most.

🌿 As I’ve journeyed through 2024, I’ve come to realise that important as these are, space is far greater than that. I sense that space in the mind is perhaps more important than the physical space, yet often overlooked.

🍁 We can, with relative ease, describe the physical space we’re currently in, but what about the space in our mind, our body and our soul? How often do we dig deep into those?

🌱 I’m discovering that nurturing and nourishing those spaces is, perhaps, of far greater importance. Will you join me on a journey to uncover those hidden but essential spaces at the heart of our very beings?

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✨ How are you feeling right now? 🌿 I’m jus

✨ How are you feeling right now?

🌿 I’m just coming to end of what are probably the busiest and most stressful two weeks in the year. The same two weeks, every year. I’m guilty at times like this of worrying that I’m not keeping up. I feel as if I’m on a constant quest to catch up, even though I never really do.

🍂 So if, like me, you need to hear these gentle reminders right now:

- The cloud will lift and the sun will shine again
- You can only do what you can do, and that’s OK
- Surrender that which is beyond your control
- There is a time for everything in its own season
- Slow and simple living is not a magic bullet to perpetual calm
- Breathe deeply, accepting the moment
- We are part of something far greater, with a past, a present and a future
- There will be time again

🙏 Be kind to yourself.

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