Covering Oli - PDF copy

Before you buy the book, it’s a good idea to have a look. These thirteen pieces are well-crafted and beautiful but they’re not so easy to play as I originally intended. Hit the link! You can download it but, like most pianists, you’ll greatly enjoy having a handsome book produced with good quality paper and a sewn binding. Made to look just like our favourite piano music publisher, it will sit, unassumingly camouflaged, next to your other treasured volumes of wonderful piano music.

… from the Introduction to this book of new piano music …

“I wanted to honour Oliver’s music and send these tunes out for a fresh hearing. But I also wanted to write these pieces for a level of proficiency at which pianists often stop practicing and quit their lessons. When students advance to a level where they can handle some of the mainstays of the repertoire, their teachers often provide them with some of the warhorses that they themselves worked through. But if one is not technically and musically ready for those pieces, practice can stop being fun ... and anyway, you can’t really play a Brahms Intermezzo at a birthday party. If there were a way to keep young, talented pianists engaged a bit longer, they might come to see for themselves the incredible world of the master composers, and they might discover many other musical traditions as well. I hope that this collection of pieces can make a modest contribution toward the possibility of continued, enthusiastic engagement and a love of practice.”