Andrew is one of the most versatile, energised, and talented figures in music education today. His superb blog Pianodao was launched in 2015 and continues to attract enormous interest, with an international following for its extensive range of articles and reviews. Ranked the number one piano education blog worldwide for three successive years, it is a bastion of support, insight and inspiration for piano teachers and players.  Read more >

Scottish composer Donald Thomson: Edinburgh’s ebullient, energised enthusiast in conversation with Murray McLachlan.

Please forgive my over-alliterative heading for this piece on Donald, a wonderful individual who, though not strictly from Edinburgh (he actually lives in East Lothian!) most certainly exudes positive, ‘can do’ energy. Indeed, everything about Donald reflects on his sincerity and warmth. Here is a bubbling, vibrant, musician who may have only recently had compositions of his own published, but who has had a lifetime’s love of music from which to springboard creatively from.  Alongside his remarkably prolific productivity and compositional successes over the past decade, Donald has continued to work on all cylinders as a pianist, in music education, and also in publishing. His extraordinary multi-faceted energy and endeavours seem to make him three or four individuals in one! Read more >

Nancy is a well-loved polymath in the world of music education, with a distinguished reputation as a sound adjudicator, examiner, pedagogue, and writer. Though she is experienced as a violinist and electronic keyboard player, it is as a pianist and teacher that she is perhaps best known. Read more >

Heather Hammond hardly needs an introduction. Her wonderfully vibrant, exquisitely crafted, and pedagogically relevant compositions are especially well known to young pianists and frequently feature not only as popular choices in examination syllabuses but equally as well-loved pieces for private study and concert use.   Read more >