Categorised for your specific playing level, and with top Studio Choice recommendations of the best material, the Pianodao Music Library is the place to discover your repertoire!
The library brings together all the publications which have been reviewed or otherwise featured on the site. As such it is a varied, extensive, inclusive, and expanding body of carefully curated music suitable for all players.
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The Joy of Graded Piano
These five inspiring collections bring together essential repertoire for players of all ages. The “greatest hits” of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic piano literature appear alongside brilliant newer pieces composed by women and men from all around the world, right up to the present day. Grades 1-5.
Graded Gillock • Three Essential Collections
William Gillock’ music continues to inspire piano students around the world with its catchy tunes and imaginative content. My three collections deliver 41 of his very best pieces, sorted by level and including my playing tips.
Naoko Ikeda Graded Collection
For this publication I have selected and edited 24 of Naoko Ikeda’s best solo works, presenting her pieces in approximate order of difficulty, grouped from Grade 2 to Grade 5 level.
Willis Student Recital Collection
‘The Willis Student Recital Collection’ offers a selection of 40 enjoyable performance pieces for elementary to late intermediate players, written by some of the world’s most acclaimed piano education composers.
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John Rutter • Complete Piano Album
John Rutter is rightly considered a national treasure, and publisher OUP Music are celebrating his 80th birthday year with this fresh compilation of his Christmas and solo Piano Album as one superb collection of 16 pieces.
Bluey: First Ever Piano Book
The ‘Bluey First Ever Piano Book’ is one of the most impressive educational resources I have seen this year. The imaginative marriage between musical learning and an established animated sensation is undeniably innovative, and works brilliantly!
Winter Piano Anthology
With their ‘Winter Piano Anthology’, Faber Music have again hit the bullseye, offering an essential collection that gathers an impressively diverse and inspiring array of evocative pieces to satisfy all tastes, including many that pianists are unlikely to already have elsewhere.
Christmas Imaginations
This selection of arrangements written by composers with very contrasting styles proves to be a collection with genuine educational and musical value, and one to which I expect to return as a teacher, and for my own personal pleasure, for many years to come. Truly superb!
Christmas Boogie and Jazz
For advanced players with a penchant for boogie and jazz piano, here’s where the Christmas party starts!
Christmas for Ten Fingers
OUP Music’s evergreen ‘Piano Time Carols’ book has been given a contemporary redesign, with added downloadable audio, and they have also published the excellent ‘Christmas for Ten Fingers’ for younger learners.
Pianoworks Christmas
Within my teaching practice, Pianoworks Christmas has proven to be a perennial chestnut, and my top, most tasty recommendation for a basic no-frills Christmas songbook.
Calming Christmas Carols for Graded Piano
With so many Christmas-themed piano books on the market, and with yet more appearing to challenge our established favourites each year, it takes something quite special and distinctive to stand out from the crowd. And here it is…
Music We Might Have Played
Written in partnership with musician and broadcaster Jack Pepper, with a foreword by Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, ‘Music We Might Have Played’ brings together nineteen stunning piano solos for early advanced players.
Essential Piano Technique: Levels 2-3
With the latest two additions to her growing series, Penelope Roskell provides a significant resource for ensuring players progressing through Late Elementary to Intermediate level, (Grades 1-4) develop a healthy playing technique.
Carolyn Miller • Piano Expressions
The obvious and very natural blend of musical inspiration and educational content to be found in these pieces make Carolyn Miller’s ‘Piano Expressions’ a superb addition to the intermediate piano education repertoire, indeed a truly magical one!
Edition Peters Piano Classics
This bumper selection of piano masterpieces will undoubtedly and significantly enrich the advancing pianist’s musical diet, bringing depth and understanding to their appreciation of our core literature. Superb!
Halloween Favourites
As Halloween approaches, many teachers and players ask about top choices of easy, but spooky, piano music to enjoy on these darker evenings. When it comes to whole collections dedicated to exploring the ghoulish and macabre, here are my top choices.
Jakub Metelka • Puppet Theatre
Early intermediate players who enjoy imaginative content presented within a fairly traditional framework, and who embrace challenge in their learning, will absolutely love this latest collection from award-winning composer Jakub Metelka…
The Eugénie Rocherolle Collection
Eugénie Rocherolle’s name and music remain too little known here in the UK; this beautifully presented valedictory tribute to her genius thus offers both a superb introduction, and a glowing memorial to one of the true greats of the piano pedagogy literature.
Essential Piano Education Resources 2025-26
It can feel overwhelming trying to keep track of all the latest and best piano education resources from one year to the next, so I am happy to publish this year’s annual Pianodao roundup!
Tunes for Ten Fingers
The Tunes For Ten Fingers series remains one of the top-selling methods for young beginners with good reason. With these new editions, OUP Music have given this evergreen resource a fresh, more diverse, contemporary look, audio, and many other tweaks…
Junior Performer
Rather boldly describing itself as “The Perfect Resource for Between Piano Grades”, the new ‘Junior Performer’ series from Willis Music clearly has ambitions…
Debbie Wiseman • Ten
Debbie Wiseman has been voted the most popular living composer by Classic FM listeners, and it’s easy to understand her wide appeal based on these attractive and winsome piano pieces, suitable for intermediate players. One of the must-have collections of 2025 so far…
Lang Lang • Piano Book
The ‘Lang Lang Piano Book’ is a brilliant achievement, which offers continuing appeal to a broad audience. With the Encore Edition, it remains an affordable anthology of great piano music for early advanced players, and as such it is still very hard to beat.
A Contemporary Sonatina Collection
The more time that I have spent playing these original contemporary works, the more certain I have become that this is a significant publication, and one which belongs in the collection of all late intermediate players and their teachers. Don’t miss it.
Ben Crosland’s Jazz Beans!
From beginner to proficient jazzer, the Jazz Beans series offers a delicious mix of styles and catchy melodies which will surely bring much enjoyment, and inspire players of all ages (and especially teenagers) to develop their groove!
Alexis Ffrench’s ‘Classical Soul’
This is my favourite album from Alexis Ffrench to date, the joyous work of a unique musician hitting a new creative peak, and confidently in command of his fully matured expressive gift…
Forest and Seaside Notebooks
Angeline Bell’s latest two intermediate collections bring her tally to five in the last three years. In this review I consider what they add, and who these books will best suit…
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