For everyone who can't wait until 5th July when the new exam books will be published, I have found out what one of the grade 4 pieces will be. "The Little Peruvian Girl" from "Piano pieces for children under 100 years of age" by Frederico Ruiz. There is even a sample of a couple of lines from the piece if you see the green box at the right side of this site:

http://www.spartanpress.co.uk/spweb/details.php?catno=SP1188

How's that for an early piece of news!

Love the title of the book! Sounds a nice little piece - hoping to have some grade 4 people next year, so look forward to trying it out.

Thanks, porilo!

I also believe that Blue Sky Blues has been chosen for the Grade 3 list

Sample is on the web site:

http://jazzjazzjazzmusic.tumblr.com/

I fear I'm going to get sick of that one rather quickly.

Thanks Porilo!

Exciting time of year! I wonder what the 'theme' will be? Going off the one you mentioned, maybe Latin American? I loved exploring the Spanish themes this year.

Hello Porilo :-))))) and everyone

Here is a performance video for the said piece. I am excited to bring this up before the syllabus comes out !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STiS9EUvuVQ

Alan

So how have you found out about this? Or would you have to kill me if you told me?

Hi Guys, here is the sheetmusic video with kind permission of the Composer, Dave Stapleton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsk6mh03G_s

Enjoy!

I will make a performance video soon :-)

Alan

I received an email from the composer some months ago saying that he has published a new book called JazzJazzJazz and that the Blue Sky Blues piece had been chosen for the 2013-2014 Grade 3 syllabus

I like this one - looking forward to trying it out.