Description
The Grade By Grade series utilizes the extensive Boosey & Hawkes collection of classical, contemporary, and educational works, featuring notable composers such as Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt, and Christopher Norton, along with traditional music arrangements by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray, and others. Curated by Iain Farrington, this comprehensive anthology serves as an essential resource for Grade 2 pianists, facilitating teaching, exam preparation, and performance. Each volume includes a varied selection of pieces with practical tips, grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire, new sight-reading and improvisation exercises, and specially commissioned aural awareness tasks, all accompanied by a CD of performance demonstrations and aural resources. Iain Farrington boasts a dynamic career as a pianist, organist, composer, and arranger, having performed globally, including at the London 2012 Olympics, and collaborated with prominent artists like Bryn Terfel and Sir Paul McCartney. His compositions and arrangements are widely performed, recorded, and broadcast internationally.
