I have a talented 15 year old who's just passed Grade 5 piano with distinction - we're all thrilled!
She took Grade 4 last autumn and wanted to do Grade 5 straight away, so I agreed. She also recently passed Grade 7 on clarinet, so it's been quite a busy time for her with exams and now I want her to explore lots of other kinds of piano music before even thinking about Grade 6.
I do have a cupboard full of piano music and have always let her take different books of pieces home to use in addition to her exam stuff. She's a very good sight reader, so she's able to try things on her own and use them for fun.
I'd appreciate any suggestions from other piano teachers about different things to let her try at this stage.

Thanks!

I think it would be nice to ask her what she wants to do as a kind of reward for all her effot this year. MIght be nice to direct into other styles of musics that she's maybe not encountered before ?

A thread has been running on this. See thread called 'inbetween Grade 5 and 6' under adult learneers section. Theres a lot of ideas there.

I've put together odd lists of 'should explore' repertoire in the past for intermediate students - happy to email or pm if they may be useful.

I've just tried to search for this thread, but with no luck. How do I find it?

It's here

PS> I've found the search function not the most reliable when looking for a specific thread, so in this case it may be easier if you just go to main forum page and then look under Adult Learners

Thanks!!

I haven't looked at the thread mentioned, so might be repeating something, but just in case

My lot love the Recital Gems books (1 and 2) published by Alfred and edited by Carole Bigler and Valery Lloyd-Watts.

Great pieces in there from grade 6-8 ranging from Baroque to modern

It also has CDs of performance which some like to hear before chosing which one to start with, though we love all the pieces

Another idea is anything by Jon Schmidt. Google him. He has a website with mp3s and pdfs of the music to buy. Very good value too!!

All my lot really enjoy his music, especially the boys. All of Me, Waterfall, To the Summit. Got to admit that I'm sure half of the teen boys would have given up by now if it wasn't for the Jon Schmidt music. Really impressive stuff and he has great little notes on the music. eg. explanation for rubato followed by 'the girls dig it' etc.

There's a fair amount of his music being 'performed' on youtube. Check it out...it's excellent.

This all sounds very interesting - I will investigate over the summer holidays

Me, too. Thank you so much!! The girl in question called round today for her certificate and mark sheet and we talked about what she was going to do next. She's very open to any suggestions and likes the idea of playing lots of different types of pieces.
Although she's a very quiet, shy girl, she showed me a recording of her recent school concert where she was singing and playing a Tori Amos song, which she did with lots of confidence. Hard to believe that this is the same girl who finds it so difficult to sing out in her aural tests!!