Review: The Piano Player, Classical Chillout
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…
Review: 22 Nocturnes for Chopin
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…
Faber Music Teachers’ Community
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…
Review: Solo, Yiruma 20th Anniversary
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,…
Concert Review: St Matthew Passion (March 2024)
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…
Review: Lang Lang Music Theory, Levels 1 and 2
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…
Review: The Joy of Graded Piano, Grades 1-5
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…
Review: Naoko Ikeda, The Graded Collection
Teachers, and occasionally students, can sometimes be a little cautious when it comes to collections of music by only one composer. We think of anthologies and compilations containing works by…
The Art of Piano Education Awards
As some of you may have already seen on social media, Elena Cobb, founder of the EVC Music and the Star Prize Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, has announced…
Review: My Garden Notebook (Angeline Bell)
Sometimes a book drops into my review pile, and I wonder how on earth I'm going to write a whole page about it, not because it's so bad, but because…
Review: Piano Postcards (Nancy Litten)
Nancy Litten's Piano Postcards, subtitled '12 Recital Piano Works Inspired by Travel', is an imaginative collection of diverse pieces reflecting the diversity of the people and places around the world…
Review: The Piano Player, Christmas Time
If you've read some of my previous reviews of books in The Piano Player series (Wintertide and British Classics), you'll know that I like the covers almost more than the…