The Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery is best known for her novels, particularly Anne of Green Gables. Anyone who has read her fiction will have come across her beautiful descriptions of…
I have been eagerly waiting for the next volume in Victoria Proudler's Piano Grades are Go! series to appear, and if you have too, you won't be disappointed. The two…
I love to sight-read! ...and yes, I can feel you groan as you read that! No one ever really taught me to sight-read, I just seemed to pick up the…
The new ABRSM Piano Syllabus seems to come round alarmingly quickly. It often feels as that no sooner have I reviewed one, the next one drops through the letterbox. The…
As the early-evening sun streamed through the beautiful stained glass windows, the high church surroundings of Birmingham’s St Alban the Martyr provided the perfect setting for a splendidly adventurous programme…
As you may have guessed, new volumes of Faber Music's The Piano Player series are released far quicker than I can keep up in reviewing them. The series is clearly…
Given that if I was really honest, quite a bit of the stuff I’m sent for review is, at worst, pretty awful, mediocre at best, it makes it even more…
When I completed my PhD back in 2020, one of my recommendations was that those involved in the music industry, specifically those organisations related to music education, should: 'consider developing…
If you haven't heard the name Yiruma, then even if it's unknowingly, I'm sure you've heard 'River Flows in You', probably his most iconic piano piece. South Korean-born pianist composer,…
Birmingham Bach Choir are an amateur choir with professional standards, and tonight’s concert in Lichfield Cathedral was no exception. Bach's setting of the Passion according to St Matthew was delivered…
These two new volumes from Faber Music, Lang Lang Music Theory, have been written to accompany The Lang Lang Piano Method. I confess, I've not seen this, but I note…
If you've had any experience of learning, playing or teaching the piano, you can't failed to have missed the extensive series of books, 'The Joy of...'. Some 50 volumes have…