8 Simple Ways You Can Support Composers
Recently, I've become conscious of us all needing to support composers and arrangers, particularly after the lack of performances and sheet music sales over the past two years. I'm aware…
Recently, I've become conscious of us all needing to support composers and arrangers, particularly after the lack of performances and sheet music sales over the past two years. I'm aware…
[This post contains affiliate links] Instrumental teachers have long lamented the lack of books and resources for teaching composition. I can understand this, but I also know from experience, that…
[This post contains affiliate links] It seems to me that anyone who writes about Einaudi these days is opening themselves to an immediate torrent of social media abuse, simply for…
Over the past few years, a number of changes have been made to ABRSM Theory Exams. A syllabus change was quickly followed by the moving of the lower grades online.…
How to Practise Music by Andrew Eales is one of the best books related to instrumental teaching and learning I've read for years. It's essential reading for music teachers, students…
I was excited to hear earlier this year that Paul Harris has now completed his series for piano, A Piece a Week. There are now eight books in the series…
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm definitely in winding-down mode right now. As I type this, I have just a few teaching days left before the summer holidays,…
[This post contains affiliate links] I know I evangelise about Editions Musica Ferrum publications, but they really are some of the most beautiful and adventurous books for piano on the…
There's a running joke that all the music I play, no one else has ever heard of. To be fair, there's some truth in that, although I like to think…
The journey Birmingham Festival Choral Society (BFCS) have taken to reach this point hasn't been an easy one. It was only recently they discovered that the Lichfield Cathedral Chorus were…
[This post contains affiliate links] As many of you know, I'm a big fan of Editions Musica Ferrum publications, not least having recently reviewed James Welburn's Adventures and Accolades. Italian…
If I could only use one word to described the singing of the Birmingham Bach Choir, it would be effortless. That's not to devalue the huge amount of work it…