Helen Marlais
Pianist, Pedagogue, Pedagogical author.
The advancing pianist will love this delightful mix of traditional carols and contemporary favorites! This collection is the perfect cure for the winter blues. Contents include: Mary’s Little Boy Child; Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree; I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus; Do You Hear What I Hear; Feliz Navidad; Angels We Have Heard On High;...
In Recital® for the Advancing Pianist – Popular, Book 1 is a collection of artistically-engaging arrangements by FJH composers Kevin Olson and Nancy Lau, and edited by Helen Marlais. This wide variety of popular works includes titles such as Fly Me to the Moon, The Alley Cat Song, Nola, Misty, Candle on the Water, Time...
Book 2 of In Recital® for the Advancing Pianist Popular continues the six-book In Recital® series with artistic arrangements for the early advanced pianist. The fabulous arrangements by Edwin McLean and Timothy Brown will capture the attention of audience. TABLE OF CONTENTS: My Foolish Heart Vaya Con Dios Dream a Little Dream of Me After...
In Recital® Ready, Set, Play! is a series which features pre-reading pieces for the beginner-level piano student. It is a fun and motivational series that is best used with the Preparatory level of Succeeding at the Piano®. In this book students reinforce pre-reading, finger numbers, as well as white and black key recognition skills. In...
This delightful collection of pre-reading original solos provides a terrific way for beginner-level students to reinforce skills such as white and black key recognition and finger numbers. In addition to reinforcement, these wonderful original pieces by top FJH pedagogical composers provide motivation for the youngest student to succeed. Includes a two-page fun writing activity. Best...
Focus on fabulous repertoire to motivate your students! These first two books in a new series introduce elementary level students to recital performance, with original, engaging pieces by outstanding FJH composers. Their wide-ranging styles offer teachers and students original solos and duets, arrangements of famous classical themes, and pieces for Halloween, Christmas, and the Fourth...
The outstanding FJH composers of Book 1 return to further engage and challenge more experienced elementary students in Book 2 of In Recital® Throughout the Year. New musical concepts are introduced (legato and staccato articulations, crescendo/ decrescendo, ritardando, rests, etc.), and familiar ones reinforced (note values, keys, hand positions, etc.). The companion recordings can be...
In this third In Recital® collection, Judith Strickland joins us, with a lyrical solo, Autumn Colors. The repertoire features arrangements of Puccini’s O mio babbino caro, Beethoven’s Allegretto, from Symphony No. 7, and the theme from Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, along with solos and duets from Bober, Brown, Greenleaf, McLean, and Olson. As part of...
In Book 4, we welcome contributions by Martín Cuéllar (a lyrical etude), David Karp (a Halloween piece and an equal-part duet), and Kevin Costley (an arrangement of America the Beautiful), along with showpieces by Melody Bober and Kevin Olson, who has also arranged a classical theme solo of Offenbach’s Barcarolle. New elements include: sixteenth note...
In Recital® Book 5 opens with an expressive Notturno by Valerie Roth Roubos, affording the chance to demonstrate beautifully sustained legato line, and other accomplishments, learned in earlier books. Equal-part duets by Bober, Olson, and McLean expand the student’s understanding of ensemble play, while four challenging new solos round out the repertoire. Triplets, one and...
