Pianodao Music Library

Categorised for your level, by style and period, 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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Elementary
Initial – Grade 2

Intermediate
Grades 3/4

Late Intermediate
Grades 5/6

Early Advanced
Grades 7/8

Advanced
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ANDREW’S PUBLICATIONS

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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Piano Tales for Winnie-the-Pooh

‘Piano Tales for Winnie-the-Pooh’ is the latest title from best-selling jazz composer Nikki Iles, brought to us in a superbly presented publication from EVC Music. And it is sure to be treasured by players of all ages.

Piano Player • Anime

Anyone for Anime? These accessible solo piano arrangements are fundamentally true to the originals, presented in full, and in key. They can even be played along to the original soundtracks…

Echoes of the Orient

I have been a fan of Angeline Bell’s music since her first publications appeared, so it is a particular joy to welcome this more advanced collection, which so absorbingly brings to life the composer’s memories, and paints such a gorgeous musical picture of the East Asian landscape.

Naoko Ikeda • Kanade

Of the many gifted composers of intermediate piano music today, Naoko Ikeda remains a favourite, and it’s great to welcome this new collection of solo pieces, particularly as it is one of her most consistent and enjoyable yet.

First Steps Piano

Darragh Gilleece is an Irish pianist, composer and educator, whose pieces in these collections are traditional with a modern twist, imaginative, highly appealing, and packed with valuable learning content.

Piano Music of Latin American Composers

Here’s a series which can be highly recommended, and which brings an important body of little-known piano education repertoire to a wider global audience.

The Beatles • Graded Pieces

Here’s an easy publication to recommend, combining classic hit songs, solid progressive arrangements at five levels (Grade 1-5), with educational insight and helpful practice tips.

Peter and the Wolf

Here’s a delight! Featuring Prokofiev’s masterpiece of musical storytelling in a ‘simple arrangement for piano’ (by Hans-Günter Heumann) and with vivid colour illustrations throughout, this is very special…

Lang Lang Piano Book 2

Following the success of his first ‘Piano Book’, piano superstar Lang Lang returns with a second collection, which this time includes a rich blend of playable classics alongside neoclassical pieces and music from film, pop and video games…

ABRSM Jazz Piano Solos

As an addition to ABRSM’s existing jazz piano resources, their ‘Jazz Piano Solo Pieces’ for Grades 6-8 provide the sense of completion that has been lacking for so long… Rejoice!

Mélanie Bonis • Children’s Albums

The superb ‘Schott Student Edition’ series has recently grown to include two very welcome volumes of music for children by the Late Romantic French composer Mélanie Bonis, edited by Melanie Spanswick…

Mendelssohn • Masterpieces

With 144 pages almost entirely filled with genuinely seminal, breathtaking piano music, ‘Mendelssohn Masterpieces for Piano’ is another triumph in this beguilingly brilliant series from Edition Peters…

Kristina Arakelyan’s ‘Musical Vegetable Patch’

Kristina Arakelyan’s ‘Musical Vegetable Patch’ is fresh, original, and really quite brilliant. I can neither fault it, nor think of any comparable publication for young, elementary pianists.

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

Here’s one of the most impressive educational resources I have seen. The imaginative marriage between musical learning and an established animated sensation is undeniably innovative, and it 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!