Refresh your repertoire with new music by Taylor Swift, Ian Higginson and Nikki Iles, plus an invaluable resource for diploma candidates, and a stunning contemporary music collection from Faber!

Nikki Iles & Friends: Jazz Pieces for Piano | Book 1 – £12.95 | Book 2 – £13.95

Out today! The popular and award-winning pianist and composer Nikki Iles commissioned this wide-ranging collection of new compositions and arrangements of classic songs to "reflect the breadth of jazz from its African American roots, through fusions with folk, classical and world music". Book 1 is ideal for pianists of about Grades 4-6 standard, and Book 2 for those at Grades 6-8.

The Faber Music Contemporary Piano Anthology – £20

As beautifully-presented as the preceding collections in Faber's series of piano anthologies, this excellent value 192-page collection offers 52 pieces, many of them never published before, including music from Aphex Twin, Einaudi, Enya, Philip Glass, Imogen Heap, Jóhann Jóhansson, Max Richter, Yann Tiersen and Nobuo Uematsu – all bound inside a striking reproduction of a Jackson Pollock!

A Recital Anthology (ATCL) – £28

Following the format of the Grade 8 Piano Anthology released every two years by Edition Peters for the ABRSM syllabus, Trinity have for the first time produced an anthology of 21 pieces selected from their ATCL diploma syllabus, edited with performance notes by acclaimed pianist Steven Osborne. Candidates can create a programme from this volume alone, and non-candidates too will enjoy both the stylistic scope and Osborne's expert insights.

Taylor Swift: Folklore & Evermore – £16.99 - £19.99

Awarded Album of the Year at the 2021 Grammy Awards, Folklore was the first of Swift's two surprise releases of 2020, both written and recorded since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and both reaching No. 1 in the US and UK. Now Folklore and its "sister record" Evermore are available in attractive sheet music albums, in versions for piano, voice and guitar, and for easy piano.

Ian Higginson: Piano Sound Colours, Vol. 1 – £15

Forsyth is delighted to distribute the music of British composer Ian Higginson, whose extensive catalogue of choral music – "expertly crafted, imaginative, practical", according to John Rutter – is already popular with choirs around the world. This is his first album of solo piano pieces, largely written during lockdown, and one of them has already been featured in the January/February issue of International Piano magazine!

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