“This collection of 9 piano pieces is sure to delight the introspective pianist”.

 You can click on  Opus Review to read the entire review.

“Susan has given us a fine product in Piano Poems which teaches challenging musical concepts with an established artistic flair. The pieces are delicate, thoughtful works for the romantic in us all! These intermediate level pieces are excellent for teens/adults for Canadian Music Week recitals, quick study or Canadian own choice selections in music festivals. They are beautifully written at level 5 – 7 with dreamy titles some of wich include: “Lavender Dreams“, which is a study in even flowing continuous phrasing from LH to RH; “Dreamcatcher” has a calm, even, meandering melody; “Walk with Me“, a gently rocking song which explores much freedom and use of rubato throughout; “Remembering You” is charming though has a repetitive open fifth idiom; there is much opportunity for improvisation with “After the Rain” and “Antique Lace” is a great challenge with its sometimes tricky treatment of ledger lines; “Soliloquy” gives an interesting development of the simple opening theme when it returns; my favourite is “Sail Away“, for this soft easy melody at an andante tempo has a very calming effect. For me, it reaches to the heart!”.  Review by Catherine Fitch Bartlett

en garde! is written for two toy pianos, music box, table top drum, cymbal monkey, wooden mallet and acoustic grand piano. It will have it’s World Premier on Monday September 26th at the Colors of Music Festival in Barrie Ontario. The performance is at noon at Central United Church, 54 Ross St, Barrie Ontario.

A second performance will take place in Toronto at 7:00 PM on Friday September 30th at the North York Public Library’s Sounds of Adventure program as part of  Culture Days, Canada.

The amazing  junctQin keyboard collective will be performing. Not to be missed!

ORMTA Notes publication ran a review of Voices from the Earth for solo flute.

excerpt from the review….”Voices from the Earth is a collection of seven unaccompanied studies for flute. The collection ranges between intermediate and advanced flute playing levels and all are new, fresh, somewhat atonal and interesting. All of these studies are voices that create definite moods and pictures. This collection is a good addition to Canadian flute music, although intended to be used as studies, each piece could be used as a recital solo. Enjoy!”  

‘Piano Poems‘- a collection of dreamy, heartfelt piano pieces, all with beautiful melodies, designed to fall easily into the hands. Perfect for teens and adults, in the Romantic style.  For Intermediate level.  See sample scores and listen to sound samples on the Compositions Collections page.

‘Arctic Voices’ has won the CFMTA 2011 Call for Compositions in the Grade 3/4 category!  The music will be made available up until Canada Music Week in November to all teachers across Canada from the CFMTA website at http://www.cfmta.org/student_competitions/CallforCompositionsWinners2011.php. You can download the file here and listen to the sound sample. This piece is part of a Collection called ‘Little Arctic Suite’ that has not been published as yet.

Score Arctic Voices

Arctic Voices