Chester Music

Easy popular pieces for young pianists, selected and arranged by Jerry Lanning. This revised and updated collection of 15 popular tunes provides additional attractive repertoire to complement the firs...

Over the weekend of 7th July 2001, composers from many countries came together at La Leprara, in Marino near Rome in celebration of Hans Werner Henze's 75th Birthday. Eleven new works were performed,...

A solo piece for Piano aimed towards the young performer. Premiered on 6th December 1998 at the Collins performance centre in Rochester, New York.

Simon Holt began 'a book of colours' in 1988 when asked by the BBC to write a brief piece to commemorate the 80th birthday of Sir William Glock. Beginning with 'Duendecitos', he later added more short...

Simon Holt's 1985 composition, Tauromaquia is named after a series of etchings by Goya, all of which are studies of the art of bullfighting. This piece for Piano solo was commissioned by Ian Brown, wh...

Composer's Note YTA is Swedish for 'surface'; my series of three YTA's - YTA 1 (alto flute), YTA 2 (Piano), YTA 3 (Cello)- were written with particular performers/friends in mind, and in each piece I...

These seven pieces can be performed as a complete work, as they appear in the score. They can also be performed as free-standing pieces. Total duration 20 minutes. These seven piano pieces were writte...

Two pieces for piano commissioned by Hungarian Radio on the occasion of the Bela Bartok celebration.

For this centenary publication, Professor Peter Dickinson, who knew Berkeley and his work for many years, has brought together for the first time the complete solo piano output, including hitherto unp...

Work for Piano commissioned by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Written for solo piano. This work was commissioned by the English Chamber Orchestra and Music Society.

Celebrated film/TV composer Debbie Wiseman has written the music for the animated films made of three of the stories, first shown on Channel 4 in 2003: The Nightingale And The Rose, The Selfish Giant...

A sourcebook for teachers, full of ideas for Primary music lessons. Contains songs, dances, action poems and more. Includes standard notation and chord symbols, with lyrics where appropriate.

Children of Light' is a set of twenty piano pieces composed for children to perform. The theme of 'Children of Light' is wild animals in danger, and environmental problems; each of the animals named i...

A collection of solo Piano arrangements of the pieces from Once Around The Sun, Joby Talbot's musical journey through one year. Jointly commissioned by Classic FM and The PRS Foundation For New Music,...

Released in 2005, the album Once Around The Sun is the outcome of Joby Talbot's residency with Classic FM. During his year in residence, Talbot composed a new piece of music each month, scoredfor up...

This work was commissioned by KlaraFestival, Flanders, Belgium. It was first first performed by Sarah Nicolls at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels on 22nd September 2005, as part of KlaraFestival.

Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) is a Finnish composer of chamber music, opera, orchestral works and electroacoustic music. Ballade was written for Emanuel Ax, who premiered the work at Wigmore Hall (London)...

The Quiet Room is an ideal album pieces arranged for solo Piano, for moments of contemplation and reflection. It opens up a world of melodic, introspective, inspired contemporary classics featuring mu...

Migas is a selection of pieces composed over 33 years by, British Composer, Simon Holt. Migas translates, in English, to Crumbs. This collection of 11 brief Piano pieces was written over a period of 3...