Author Archives: Susan

News!March 2017

My piano piece, The Road Goes On was one of the winning entries selected by the CFMTA Call for Compositions. Click here to hear the piece performed on You Tube by the amazing pianist Arianne Ewing-Chow.

Recordings and PerformancesJanuary 2017

NEW! Arctic Voices Video Collection

You can see videos of all the pieces in the Arctic Voices collection on You Tube. Click here.

Syllabi and PublishingMarch 2016

Good News! My Jester’s Dance duet has been selected for publishing in the CNCM Early Intermediate Duets Collection. The collection will be released in August 2016 at the Summer Sizzle Convention in Yorkton Saskatchewan.

ReviewMay 2016

The CFMTA Canadian Music Teacher magazine published a lovely reivew of my Winter Collection.  You can read the review by opening this link CFMTA Review of Winter Collection.

World Premier Performance!May 2016

A sextet for Two Pianos, 12 Hands, Sixty Fingers, was commission by Margie Feduck and premiered at the 2016 Port Colbourne Music Festival of the Arts. Our six performers included Margie Feduck, Angela Willet, Sheila Brown, Lynne Brazeau, Linda Caldwell and Ted Ellis.

This sextet is a high energy, percusive musical romp with a few humorous moments along the way. This sextet is a big crowd pleaser and particularly well suited to close any recital programme.

A score sample and sound sample can be found on the  Composition/Ensembles page.

Composition WorkshopOctober 2015

In October I presented a Composition Workshop at the Piano Studio of Megan Newcombe in New Tecumseth Ontario. We focused on developing guidelines to teaching composition to students. It was wonderful to be able to share ideas and techniques with a very enthusiastic audience.

New Book Release!January 2016

A new piano duet Amaryllis for the intermediate player, about grade 5/6. Graceful, gentle, lush, sparkling and warm to add some sunshine to those bleak winter months. You can see some of the score on the Composition Ensembles page.

AdjudicatingNovember 2015

I had a wonderful time adjudicating all the amazing young musicians performing Canadian music at the Contemporary Showcase Festival in Toronto this November. The Festival is such a well run event and I received some wonderful feedback that I’d like to share. It’s not often we get input like this. Thank you to Belinda Huang. Link to Contemporary Showcase Toronto.

ReviewJanuary 2016

A wonderful review of Jester’s Dance duet by the Canadian Music Teacher Magazine. You can read the review by clicking on Jester review

New Book Release!July 2015

‘Hockey Sticks’!! A new solo guaranteed to excite the hockey fans in your studio! Fun to play as you get to score a goal at the end! You can see a score sample at Compositions/Piano Solos.

Syllabi and PublishingJuly 2015

My duet, ‘Willow’, (1 Piano 4 Hands) has just been published in the new CNCM (Canadian National Conservatory of Music) Northern Lights Late Elementary Piano Duets Collection. A sample of the score to be uploaded soon at  http://www.susangriesdale.com/duettrios/.

On the RoadJuly 2015

A wonderful time in Vancouver at the 2015 CFMTA Convention with fellow Red Leaf Composers  Teresa Richert, Martha Hill Duncan, Irene Voros, Beverly Porter.