Kevin Volans

Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is the first in a series of three books featuring fun and enjoyably challenging Piano miniatures composed by South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans.   If you're tired of playing the same old exercises the same old études or boring studies this book of Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is for you. Whether you're after somethingchallenging something fun or even something funny you can be sure that you'll never have heard any pieces like this before. Composer Kevin Volans invites pianists 'of all ages and sizes' to play his innovative andinteresting take on the Piano miniature.   All of these pieces are lovely and tuneful all provide a challenge and all are exciting thrilling confusing and sometimes even baffling. Each volume istechnically progressive meaning the Pint-Sized Piano Pieces is best for the beginner to the intermediate player although the tunes vary in length and difficulty. Equally as important even though the piecesare a lot of fun they also each explore a different aspect of crucial Piano technique allowing you to enjoy learning to play and perfecting your abilities.   The inventive and imaginative miniaturesincluded in the sheet music collection Pint-Sized Piano Pieces are guaranteed to get you having fun while practising. They are a pleasure to hear and a pleasure to play so make sure you check out thesefun and practical pieces today.    

Cicada was commissioned for Double Edge Piano Duo by the Mary Carey Foundation the first performance was given by Double Edge in Los Angeles 1994. The piece should be played half-pedal throughout and the pianos should beplaced as far apart as possible.

In the second book of South African pianist and composer Kevin Volans's Piano miniature series progressively more challenging pieces are presented for intermediate players while still retaining the fun and excitement ofthe previous edition. This truly is a collection of Pieces For Precocious Pianists. If you are looking for the antidote to all those boring Piano exercise books out there that claim to bebeneficial but are so dull it's hard to pull your head up off the keys look no further. This book contains nine fantastically fun and playful tunes that will get you interested in and enjoying practising as much as you possiblycan. As you play your way through the book you will be laughing scratching your head and sometimes crying but never not enjoying these pieces that resist all description. Not only are thesePieces For Precocious Pianists really great fun to play they also serve an educational purpose. As an accomplished pianist and composer Kevin Volans has crafted each piece to explore a singleaspect of essential Piano technique. This means that it will focus on a particular skill that you can hone while having fun with the pieces. These pieces are more challenging than the previous book in the series making this bookmore appropriate for the intermediate pianist although it makes a great progression if you've worked through the first. For a fun and thrilling ride through some inventive and innovative Piano miniatures Pieces For Precocious Pianists by Kevin Volans is a brilliant way to perfect particular techniques while having lots and lots of musical fun. Don't forget to checkout  Pint-Sized Piano Pieces  and  Progressively Prickly Piano

The score and parts for Kneeling Dance by Kevin Volans scored for Six Pianos. The piece was first performed by Piano Circus on 13th November 1992 at The Gantry in Southampton. Volans writes that the piece can be played on six separate Pianos or on four with minor adjustments.