Steinway introduces new piano library

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2005

The Steinway Library of Piano Music, Ekay Music, Inc., 2 Depot Plaza, Bedford Hills, NY 10590; (914) 244-8500 or (718) 721-2600; info@steinway.com.

Steinway & Sons has begun publishing new piano music in collaboration with Ekay Music, publisher of Piano Today and Sheet Music Magazine, among many other music publications. The new piano music book venture already has six titles in print, a dozen more in production and additional piano music books planned for release over the next two years.

Along with individual titles, the Steinway Library of Piano Music has launched a number of series, such as Piano Stylings of the Great Standards, a ten-volume collection of professionally crafted renditions of songs by such composers as Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin; Easy Piano: Big Hits, a multi-volume, easy-to-play pop series for early grade pianists; Simply Elegant Piano, offering playable interpretations of song hits for early-intermediate to intermediate grades; and You Plus an Orchestra, a book-plus-CD series that gives pianists the opportunity to play professional arrangements, or improvise, along with orchestral and combo backgrounds.

In addition, music education and self-help books will include Applied Jazz Piano, a new jazz method series; A Treasury of Little Pieces for Young People; 500 Introductions for Popular Pianists; and The Steinway Compendium of Piano Exercises for Technical Excellence.

Recently released is 100 Classics To Grow On, an extensive collection of graded pieces by master composers, written for their students.

For more information contact The Steinway Library of Piano Music.