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Originally published in Piano Sketches Duets, Book 1, 'The Glorious Pastime' is a baroque-inspired piece featuring dotted rhythms, changes in tonality and a variety of articulation.

With a simple, hopeful melody in the Primo part, and busy quavers in the Secondo, 'Wind of Spring' is a perfect piece for beginners wishing to practise ensemble playing and cross rhythms. Originally p...

Originally published in Piano Sketches Duets, Book 2, 'Tarantella' is a fast, fiery piece featuring a contrasting middle section. Perfect for practising compound time signatures and ensemble playing.

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this piano duet is in the style of South African township jazz, and contains an optional improvisation section.

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this Latin jazz piano duet combines the danzón, a traditional Cuban groove, and the cha-cha, with an optional improvisation section as bonus!

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this piano duet is inspired by the great jazz players and composers of the American Blue Note record label, and contains an optional improvisatio...

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this piano duet features the tresillo rhythm (3+3+2), the montuno common to Latin American music and jazz, and an optional improvisation section.

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this piano duet recalls the lush chords and mid-tempo grooves of 1970s disco.

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this relaxed piano duet has a bluesy country sound echoing rural gospel music, and an optional improvisation section as bonus!

First published in the book Grooves for Two (with CD), this jazz piano duet has a stride-piano feel, and written-out solo over a walking-bass pattern and chords reminiscent of pianist Thelonius Monk.

Beautifully crafted, this short work for 4 hands conjures up precisely the imagery the title suggests. Calm, lilting, melodic, but requiring technical skill, it is a welcome addition to the piano duet...

From the collection Jazz on a Summer's Day, 'East Coast Blues' is a blues tune inspired by Stanley Turrentine. Featuring a walking bass line and with written-out improvisation included, this is a fun...

Heart of Earth sets excerpts of poetry by Laura Purdie Salas that are rich in vivid descriptions of the natural world. The simple melodic lines are embellished with cross-rhythms, vocal scoops, and ha...

From the collection Jazz on a Summer's Day, 'Guava' is a robust jazz calypso inspired by Sonny Rollins. This jaunty piece makes an engaging addition to the repertoire of intermediate players.

Jackson's work couples the expressive language of a medieval Latin hymn with the Collect for St Margaret of Scotland. The use of hockets and isorhythms give the music a deep medieval grounding, whilst...

From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'Mwanzo' is a jazz township groove written by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles, inspired by Abdullah Ibrahim. An intermediate level piece, this is an engaging...

The Ballerina and the Clown develops a completely new story inspired by some of Hans Christian Andersen's charming papercuts, which are reproduced in the score. Alternative illustrations by Cecilia Ro...

Sounding heaven and earth is an organ piece inspired by Prayer, a sonnet by the metaphysical poet, George Herbert.

Larsen's flowing meditation on the 'Veni creator' tune was written as the Pentecost entry for a multi-composer anthology based on the liturgical year. It was given one of the highest rankings in a sur...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Songbook, 'The Runner' is a fast rhythmic piece setting a text by Walt Whitman. With chromatic inflections, close harmonies, and vocalizations to imitate the athlete's...

From the collection Hark, hark, the lark, 'When icicles hang by the wall' is a setting by Stephen Hatfield of words from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Scored for unaccompanied upper voices, this...

A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of 'A flower remembered', originally written in memory of the victims of the Tohoku area earthquake and tsunami, March 2011. Suitable for pianists...

A tribute to health and care professionals, this lyrical ballad is inspired by the song 'Somewhere over the rainbow', and is for pianists of modest ability and of all ages.

From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'Up on the Hill' is a contemporary lyrical jazz ballad by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. An intermediate level piece, this is an engaging addition to the r...