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LEEDS MUSIC NEWS:
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LEEDS ARTS:
Arts Council Yorkshire
British Arts Website
LEEDS CLASSICAL
MUSIC:
Leeds International
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Leeds City Council
LEEDS JAZZ:
Leeds Jazz News,
Tickets and reviews
JAZZ YORKSHIRE:
JAZZYORKSHIRE was set up in 2003 with support from Arts Council England
(Yorkshire) with a mission to celebrate and develop jazz in Yorkshire
and the Humber.
LEEDS LIVE
MUSIC VENUES:
The Wardrobe
Seven Arts
The Cockpit
Coopers
Jazz Club
Harrogate
Jazz Club
The Spin
Off
LEEDS MUSIC GROUPS:
LIMA - Leeds Improvised Music Association
FUSELEEDS: Aims to increase the provision of high quality contemporary
music
in Leeds and the region
LEEDS MUSIC EDUCATION:
Leeds College of Music
Leeds
College of Music on Myspace
The School of Music
at the University of Leeds
North Leeds Music Centre
Chevin Music Education
LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO LESSONS:
Online Piano Lessons - a comprehensive website
about online piano lessons. Want to Learn Piano? Our Music Teachers Rate
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Wikipedia on the Piano
Bechstein - The Art of the Piano
Ages of Steinway
Marycliff productions - Piano tuition for adult beginners
The Piano Book - Bookside Press
Bechstein
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Boston
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Pianist Magazine
Tel: (0)113 2002929 email: enquiries@pianistmagazine.com
- Pianist is the piano magazine for people who love to play the instrument.
After all, you don't just read Pianist - you can play it too! Whether you're
an amateur,
an advanced player, or someone who is returning after years of neglect, you’ll
find that Pianist is just what you need.
International Piano
Tel: +44 (0)20 7618 3095 email: enquiries@orpheuspublications.com
- magazine for pianists and piano enthusiasts.
Piano Magazine
Tel: +44 (0)20 7333 1724 email: piano@rhinegold.co.uk
- Piano magazine is a unique bi-monthly publication for pianists and serious
enthusiasts alike. In regular 'Performers' Symposiums', Editor Jeremy Siepmann
brings together many of the world's greatest pianists.
BBC Music Magazine
- Monthly classical music magazine. CD reviews, concert listings, features and
more.
Piano Professional
email: admin@epta-uk.org
- Piano Professional is THE magazine for the Teaching Pianist, published to coincide
with the beginning of each school term, in January, April and September each
year. Free to EPTA UK members or available from the Administrator.
Music Teacher
Tel: +44 (0)20 7333 1747 email: music.teacher
@ rhinegold.co.uk
- Music Teacher
sets
outs to keep instrumental
teachers in touch with one another’s work and with the changing world of
music education.
Classroom
Music
Tel: +44 (0)20 7333 1747 email: music.teacher
@ rhinegold.co.uk
- Classroom Music
is designed to provide experienced and non-specialist teachers with expert guidance
on delivering all
aspects of the music curriculum, from KS3 through to A2.
RHINEGOLD GUIDE TO MUSIC EDUCATION
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- Provides contact information, course details, scholarship policy and entry
requirements for all independent schools, conservatoires, colleges and universities
nationwide.
BRITISH & INTERNATIONAL
MUSIC YEARBOOK
Tel: 020 7333 1720 email: classical.music
@ rhinegold.co.uk - The British & International
Music Yearbook comes in one volume and contains details of over 18,000 organisations
and performers from every sector of the music industry both in the UK and,
increasingly, abroad.
BRITISH PERFORMING ARTS YEARBOOK
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- The complete guide to venues, performers, festivals, arts courses, support
organisations and services for the arts professional.
RHINEGOLD DICTIONARY OF MUSIC IN SOUND
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- The Rhinegold Dictionary of Music in Sound is a comprehensive multi-dimensional
guide by David Bowman defining the language used to describe Western art music.
It is a unique reference that can be used by students, teachers, enthusiastic
listeners and professional musicians.
Classical Music
Tel: +44 (0)20 7333 1742 email: classical.music
@ rhinegold.co.uk
- Classical
Music is the magazine of the classical music profession; focusing on venue
managers,
agents, composers,
festival
directors, marketing and public relations experts and, of course, musicians.
An Annual Guide to Music Competitions 2007
Tel: +44 020 7333 1720
- Published each NOVEMBER. What competitions are offer in both the UK and abroad?
A GUIDE TO MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- This annual supplement brings together a series of feature articles providing
invaluable advice for parents, teachers and students. There are also dozens of
ads from independent schools setting out their own scholarship policy for gifted
musicians.
An Annual Guide to SUMMER SCHOOLS
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- New Edition Published Feb 2008. For musicians, summer schools and music courses
provide a chance to spend a concentrated time with a group of like-minded people,
often in a beautiful setting, pursuing an activity that gives an immense amount
of pleasure. As this guide shows, there are summer schools which cater for people
with every musical taste and ability. From professional opera singers to budding
recorder players, from string enthusiasts to brass band aficionados - there is
a course to suit you.
An
Annual Guide to Music Festivals
Tel: 020 7333 1720
- Feature articles pinpointing the highlights of a number of key festivals plus
detailed LISTINGS of more than 200 music festivals in the United Kingdom as well
as some key international festivals providing names, contact details and dates.
Published each MAY .
PIANO SHEET MUSIC & TABLATURE:
ABRSM Publishing is the publishing company of the Associated Board of the
Royal
Schools of Music.
Huge selection of Sheet Music Online for all instruments. Discounts. Quick shipping.
Sheet music and songbooks for all instruments.
Free delivery over £20 within
UK.
For a Huge Selection of Sheet Music,
Songbooks, Tutor Books and Lots More. Discount
for music tutors.
Sheet Music Online. Classical Piano Free Downloads.
Free Piano Sheet Music Directory
FREE PIANO MUSIC
Free Piano Sheet Music, Lessons & Resources
Acadia Early Music Archive
Sheet music archive
Music scores
PIANO TUNING AND RESTORATION:
The Association of Blind Piano Tuners
UK Piano Page
A Wealth of Information on Piano Tuning, Piano History, Makers, Movers, and Piano
Teachers in the UK
Reuben Katz
Reuben Katz is a sought after piano tuner and restorer with a good
selection of new and restored pianos for sale. Winner of the Broadwood Prize.
PIANO ACCESSORIES:
Piano Accessory Shop
- One stop
shop for all your piano accessory needs.
PIANO PARTS:
H.J Fletcher & Newman
Ltd
Tel: 01732
884789 email: fn@talk21.com
- Tuning tools, action parts, hinges, castors, pedals,
tuning pins, removal equipment, glues and polishes and much more!
ONLINE PIANO LINKS DIRECTORIES:
Play piano
Directory of Piano & Music Sites
Touch Leeds
Leeds's largest and most comprehensive business directory and community porta
Splut
directory of UK websites
directory.leeds.biz
local search and directory
www.mycartel.co.uk
uk business directory
GREAT MOVIE CLIPS FEATURING PIANOS:
BBC
footage from The Culture show - Lang Lang performs The Hungarian Rhapsody
by Franz Liszt.
You Tube Clip -
This fascinating video shows how the Mason & Hamlin company
manufactures a piano.
You Tube
Clip - Beethoven piano concerto no 4 : Rubinstein.
You Tube
Clip - Glenn Gould plays Bach.
You Tube
Clip - Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2.
You Tube
Clip - Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata D. 960 part 1-1.
You Tube
Clip - Artur Rubinstein Plays Beethoven Piano sonata No.23 1st.Mov.
You Tube
Clip - Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin, Nocturne Op.55.
You Tube
Clip - Jazz Piano Workshop 1965 Jaki Byard.
You Tube
Clip - Lennie Tristano-Berlin Jazz Piano Workshop.
You Tube Clip -
Monty Python Sviatoslav Richter attempts to play Tchaikovsky.
You Tube Clip -
Corpse Bride Piano Duet.
You Tube Clip -
The Muppet Show - Chickens on Piano.
You Tube Clip -
Mickey Mouse Piano Solo - The Opry House (1929).
You Tube Clip -
Bugs Bunny Rhapsody Rabbit.
You Tube Clip -
Tom and Jerry piano concerto.
You Tube Clip -
Tom and Jerry - Johann Mouse.
MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC LINKS OF INTEREST:
Association of Professional Music Therapists
The Association of Professional
Music Therapists (APMT) was established in 1976 to support and develop the
profession.
PRSF
The PRSF is looking to support music creators, performers and promoters
who are involved in creatively adventurous or pioneering musical activity.
LISTEN TO MUSIC ONLINE:
Free Internet Radio and Online Music
Offers free Internet radio stations including
live radio and music stations. Free online music is easier to find than ever
with the multitude of Internet radio stations now available to listeners. There's
no better guide to all of the free radio stations available on the Internet
than OnlineRadioStations.com! Join the digital revolution today and learn how
much
free radio stations on the Internet have to offer.
Last FM
Based on what you listen to, Last.fm recommends you new music.
MISCELLANEOUS COOL LINKS:
DirPedia.com - combining
a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a web directory
Kwmap - A Keyword Map for
the Internet
Business-Inc.Net -
web directory for business
Music Ecards at 123greetings.com
- free "Music" Ecards
JOBS IN MUSIC:
Looking for a job in music?
- For a selection of the recruitment ads currently being advertised in Classical
Music magazine.
UK MUSIC FESTIVALS:
Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians
Aldershot & Farnborough Festival
Of Music & Art
Harrogate Festival
Since the Harrogate International Festival was launched
in 1966, we’ve grown into one of the region’s leading cultural organisations,
working year round to bring the finest in performing arts, literature and community
participation to Harrogate and Yorkshire.
CLASSICAL MUSIC UK:
Academy of Ancient Music
One of the world’s first period-instrument
ensembles now in its fourth decade as one of the world’s finest
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
The Academy of St Martin
in the Fields was formed in 1958 as a small, conductorless chamber ensemble.
ArkivMusic
- find and buy classical music recordings
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
The British Music Information Centre
Birmingham The British Music Information
Centre is a leading resource for 20th and 21st century new music in the UK
Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia is a flexible ensemble composed of the
finest chamber musicians in Europe.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The City of London Sinfonia
The City of London Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra,
founded in 1971.
The English National Opera
The Halle Orchestra
The Hallé, Britain's longest-established symphony
orchestra
The London Festival Orchestra
London Festival Orchestra was established in
the 50's as an elite house orchestra for the great Decca Recording Studios.
The London Soloists Orchestra
The MCPS-PRS Alliance
The MCPS-PRS Alliance is the home of the world's best
songwriters, composers and music publishers, apparently.
The Musicians' Union
The Musicians' Union represents over thirty thousand
musicians working in all sectors of the music business.
The National Youth Orchestra
The National Youth Orchestra is one of the world's
finest youth orchestras which draws together each year over 150 talented musicians,
aged between 13 and 19 years, from all over the UK.
The Royal College of Music
Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music enjoys
a reputation as one of the world's leading conservatoires, providing specialised
musical education and professional training at the highest international level
for performers, conductors and composers.
The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra was founded in 1945,
primarily as a recording orchestra.
Emma Abbate
London
Tel: 07817 150802
Staff accompanist at TCM. Italian vocal coach. Performs regularly as a
soloist and chamber musician in England and abroad.
Jocelyn Abbott
London
Tel: 020 7720 8660
Email:jabbott@cubittmusic.co.uk
Anthony Adkins
Surrey
Tel: 020 8948 0425
Has performed throughout Europe to much critical acclaim, and has recorded
for radio and TV.
Email:anthony@adkins50.freeserve.co.uk
Marcus Andrews
London,
Tel: 07714 796108
Performs regularly as recital and concert soloist and duo partner. Accompanist
for auditions and examinations, staff accompanist at TCM.
Email:marcus@marcusandrews.com
Eleanor Bailie
London
Lecture-recitals, workshops, courses.
Email:retallack.bailie@virgin.net
Raymond Banning
Cambs.
Tel: 01223 523026
Email:rban1@aol.com
Timothy Barratt
London
Tel: 020 8670 4904 or 07761 373732
Piano Accompanist. Piano Soloist. Email:barratttim@hotmail.com
Daniel Brotherton
Tel: 0161 427 5332
One of the northwest's leading freelance pianists, Daniel has earned quite
a reputation over several years, with an extensive collection of beautiful
music from the great composers Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin
and many more.
Email:danielbrotherton@msn.com
Richard Burnett
Tel: 01580 211702
Email:katrina@finchcocks.co.uk
Timothy Carey
Essex
Tel: 01245 474709 or 07787 531600
Email:KeysTim@aol.com
Jonas Cedervall
Glasgow, Scotland
Tel: 07988823782
Jonas plays piano for all events including weddings, parties and corporate
functions. His repertoire includes jazz, easy-listening, light classical
and contemporary music. Covering all of Scotland and the North of England,
he can provide a high-spec digital piano if required.
Email:jonas@cedervallmusic.co.uk
Caroline Clemmow
North Lincs.
Tel: 01724 720475
Busy career as chamber music performer; flourishing piano duo with husband,
Anthony Goldstone. Many CDs (Goldstone & Clemmow and Hartley Trio).
Email:CarolineClemmow@aol.com
Robin Colvill
Herts.
Tel: 01727 848123 or 07941 166481
Email:colvill.concerts@ntlworld.com
Chris Connelly
Glasgow, Scotland
Tel: 07944 184 174
Covering an eclectic range including jazz standards, classic pop, bridal
marches and hymns, Chris will be delighted to assist you in creating a
bespoke package to make your event extra special.
Email:mail@chrisconnelly.co.uk
Vic Cracknell
Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex
Vic Cracknell is a professional pianist/vocalist available for bookings
in Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, Berkshire & London. Available for venues,
functions, parties and weddings.
Email:vic.cracknell@btinternet.com
Nikolai Demidenko
Tel: 020 8673 7179
Email:info@giamanagement.com
Winston Eade
Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire & London
Winston Eade is a professional pianist available for bookings in Surrey,
Berkshire, Hampshire & London. He will provide a personal devised program
at the piano for all weddings & functions
Email:info@pianist4you.co.uk
Clifford Evans
Suffolk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8673 7179
Piano recitals, lecture recitals and piano instruction videos.
Email:music@marycliff.co.uk
Jeffrey Faltskog & Maggie Faltskog UK
Email:Maggy219@aol.com
Jane Ford
Tel: 07773 879 491
Jane Ford is a thoughtful and exciting pianist, whose performances are
both intensely passionate and sublimely expressive. High quality classical
music for recitals,concertos, weddings and functions.
Anthony Fountain
Hull
Tel: 01482 827584
A professional pianist available for bookings in Hull and the Yorkshire
Region. Available for classical concerts, informal concerts, accompaniment
for singers, instrumentalists and choirs and light entertainment / cocktail
piano for Weddings, functions and other events. Piano and keyboard tuition
also available.
Email:A.W.Fountain@hull.ac.uk
Alan Fraser
Tel: +381 (21) 50 60 91
Regularly performs in recital and gives masterclasses in Uk, Germany, France
and US. Professor of piano at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Robert Greening
- Accomplished pianist, trained in both jazz and classical piano, available
for weddings, private parties and corporate functions.
Tel: 07961 023472
Email:enquiries@robertgreening.com
Dorian Griner
Email:dorian_griner@yahoo.co.uk
Michael Hancock
Cumbria
Tel: 01228 527106
Continues to pursue a busy career as a singer, pianist, conductor, teacher,
adjudicator and examiner. Email:hancockmichael@hotmail.com
Steven Harper
I offer wedding pianist and singing services
Email:web@amicreative.co.uk
Dean Headland
South Yorkshire
ARCM Cert Ed EPTA ISM.
Email: info@deanheadland.co.uk
Kevin James
Leeds
Pianist,
vocalist, songwriter, teacher
Contact: celandinerecords@yahoo.co.uk
Kevin has performed professionally for over fifteen years. Versatile and
imaginative. Specialises in jazz and popular styles. Trio or Quartet available
for weddings and parties.
Al James
Tel: 0131 664 8985
Professional piano & vocal entertainer for pianobars, pubs, hotels,
restaurants, nightclubs, weddings, functions and corporate.
Email:al@aljames.co.uk
David Johnson
Tel: 01692 536881
Professional Pianist based in East Anglia. Will suit all musical tastes.
Email:david@onetrackmusic.com
Helen Leach
York, N.Yorks
Expereienced pianist with portable, digital piano for weddings, receptions,
corporate events etc. A wide repertoire of Classical/Popular music.
Tel: 01904 639029
Angela Lear
Tel: 01279 871114
Email::mlartists@googlemail.com
Joanna MacGregor
Recognised as one of the world’s most wide-ranging and innovative
musicians and has pursued a life connecting many genres of music defying
categorizations.
Email:info@soundcircus.com
Oleg Marshev
Marshev is a phenomenon - master of every mood from strip-cartoon crispness
to thundering monster, but above all a controlling sensibility of intelligence
and feeling. Recitals and concerto appearances in Canada, Denmark, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland,
Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA.
Email:olegmarshev@libero.it
Murray McLachlan
Cheshire
Piano Accompanist. Piano Soloist.
Email:info@murraymclachlan.co.uk
Owen T Muir
Owen can play up to a two hour set of Cocktail Pianist material. His set-list
includes standards like Georgia on my Mind, Pop songs, Light Jazz and some
of his own compositions. Owen also sings as well, covering Blues and Rock
and Roll music which is always well received.
Email:Owentmuir27@hotmail.com
Liam Mullany
Poole and Bournemouth
Tel: 0793 2783592
I play songs of wide variety to suit all audiences from light swing songs
to slow romantic songs. I have pieces and songs which I have written, as
well as popular covers and traditional jazz and romantic piano pieces.
My influences vary for each song from singers such as Robbie Williams and
Frank Sinatra to rock bands such as Muse and Jazz performers such as Gordon
Haskell and Jools Holland. I have a great understanding of music and am
able to produce and perform new songs of a high standard quickly and easily.
Email:liam_mullany@hotmail.com
Steven Osborne
Concerto Repertoire. Recital Programmes.
Email:sgmo@stevenosborne.com
Jill Owen
Email:livemusicagency@blueyonder.co.uk
Andrew Parnell
Tel: 01727 832889 or 07974 421579
Organist for solo recitals and specialises in choral accompaniment. Choral
and orchestral conductor devoted to maximising the potential of amateur
musicians.
Email:andrewparnell@tesco.net
Eugene Portman
Tel: 01342 835394
Email:enquiries@eugeneportman.com
Martin Reid
Highly acclaimed London-based pianist, renowned for his arrangements of
American music from the 1920's, '30's and '40's.
Email:martin.read@tinyworld.co.uk
Romantic Piano
West Midlands
Tel: 0121 3233154 or 07742 880186
Award winning pianist offering a rwide range of music for weddings, receptions,
banquets, corporate events, civil ceremionies and special occasions.
Email:romantic_piano@hotmail.com
Samuel Ryall
Dorset
Available for recitals, accompaniments, functions including weddings. Classical,
jazz, pop, rock, soul and more. Bands and other ensembles also available
through the website. Tuition for piano, organ, synthesizers and theory
too.
Email:sam@musicalsam.com
Paul Seeley
West Yorkshire
Tel: 01274 544847
Former repetiteur and orchestral manager with D'Oyly
Carte. MD/accompanist specialising in Gilbert and Sullivan, Viennese Operetta.
Soloist (lecture-recitals).
Matthew Sim
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Tel: 0785 5049915 for bookings and enquiries. Professional Leeds Based
Cocktail Pianist, happy to travel, ideal for restaurants/hotels/parties.
Email:mattiesim@yahoo.co.uk
Evgeny Soifertis
Tel: 020 8989 1357
Email:evgeny@margaretmurphy.com
Oliver Stevenson
South East
A professional jazz pianist based in the South East of England.
Email:mail@oksmusic.co.uk
Susie Summers
PGDip Royal Academy of Music, MA(Hons)Cambridge University
Prizewinning Piano Accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music. Regularly
performs chamber music in London and throughout UK. Wide repertoire.
Email:susie@susiesummers.co.uk
Clive Swan Hertfordshire, UK
Professional cocktail pianist available for weddings, civil ceremonies
and parties across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North
London Email:clive@night-people.co.uk
Web:http://www.cliveswan.co.uk
Michael Ward
North Yorkshire
Tel: 01757 268452 or 07786 817600
Concerts, recordings, TV & radio broadcasts, compositions, throughout
the UK and abroad. Orchestrator and arranger. International competition
winner. Principal Conductor of Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra.
Email:DrMichaelWard@ward202020.fsnet.co.uk
John Scott Whiteley
York
Tel:01904 627554 or 07818 627258
BBC2 organist for '21st Century Bach'. Organist, York Minster. Worldwide
concert organist. Email:jhtswhiteley@msn.com
Nick Wiley
Tel: 01902-851636
A wide range of music - such as love ballads, musicals, shows and films,
but also melodic jazz such as Duke Ellington, some Gershwin, as well as
Queen, Elton John, Beatles etc. Range includes many songs from the 1930's.
Email:info@wedding-pianist.co.uk
Web:http://www.wedding-pianist.co.uk/
Stephen Wood
Lancs
Tel: 01204 307081 or 07970 229231
Performer and composer. Many broadcasts and recordings. Published compositions
and arrangements for piano by Taigh na Teud Music Publishers, Scotland.
Email:mail@stephenjwood.co.uk
Zinaida Zubova
Sheffield
Tel: 07968 175 457
Zinaida comes from the rich Russian virtuoso tradition of piano playing
and has given solo and chamber music recitals in UK and abroad. Winner
of international piano competitions and awards. Piano soloist/chamber music
artist.
Email:zzinaida@hotmail.com or info@northernensembles.com
