#EVERY
VOICE
CHALLENGE
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Welcome to the #EveryVoiceChallenge! Our mission is to champion and celebrate diversity in the classical piano repertoire by promoting music by composers of colour. A curated collection of well-known classics, unearthed gems, and specially commissioned new pieces, Kamilla's passion project challenges music students and teachers alike to embrace the wealth of music for the piano by often neglected composers.
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The pieces in the Challenge are organised from beginner level to ABRSM Grade 8 and beyond, and each level contains works that are available free with the project, as well as ones that are available for purchase from third parties. Want to diversify your own collection? Get suggestions to start your own #EveryVoiceChallenge-inspired library HERE. And don’t hesitate to suggest your own work ― our database is growing by the day, and we’re keen to learn about music we may have missed!
You can find information about the composers in the collection HERE, and see the list below to listen to, download or purchase music. Then look out for email updates on upcoming #EveryVoiceChallenge Virtual Student Concerts.
Don't forget to follow and post on social media: @everyvoicechallenge #everyvoicechallenge.
Enjoy the collection, and we look forward to hearing your performances!
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It's Easy:
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PICK your piece from the collection
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PRACTICE it
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PERFORM it in #EveryVoiceChallenge Virtual Concerts!
Special thanks to composers and musicians who have composed for or donated works to this project: Anthony R. Green, Brittany J. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Alice H. Jones, Julian Joseph, Brian H. Kim, Wilbert Roget II, Alice Shyy, Ayo Vincent and Kaoru Wada.
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beginner
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin (arr. K Arku)
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A Brotherhood of Heroes (from Call of Duty WWII)
Wilbert Roget II (arr. K. Arku)
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Summer on the Fjord
Kamilla Arku
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Snap Hello!
Kamilla Arku
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Theme from 'Troubled Water'
Margaret Bonds (arr. K. Arku)
grade 2
pieces
Grade 3
Portrait of Leonore (in G minor)
Brian Kim
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We Real Cool: piano etude #4
Regina Harris Baiocchi
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Passiflora
Yuji Takahashi (ed. K. Arku)
Hale Smith
grade 4
Valerie Capers
Kagayaki, Op.26 No.2
Sakri Abe (arr. K. Arku)
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HB4A
Regina Harris Baiocchi
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Scott Joplin (arr. Vaitzman Or)
Valerie Capers
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Waltz for Miles
Valerie Capers
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Ulysses Kay
Nkeiru Okoye
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Hale Smith
grade 5
Scott Joplin
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La femme complexe (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
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Udje
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Ayevwiomo Dance no. 2
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Tunis
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Billie's Song
Valerie Capers
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Valerie Capers
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Mr. Satchmo
Valerie Capers
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Cancion de la Havana
Valerie Capers
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Breeze
Toru Takemitsu
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Florence B. Price
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Nkeiru Okoye
Buy
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Rippling Spring Waltz
Estelle D. Ricketts
Lullaby
Bangambula Vindu
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Lament in Tremelo Form
Laurindo Almeida
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Piano Piece No. 2, Call and Response
Robert Mawuena Kwami
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Cuban Liberty March
Anna Gardner Goodwin
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grade 6
Miss Simmons
Julian Joseph (arr. Michael Csanyi-Wills)
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La fille dans les nuages (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
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La mère dans le marché (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
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Juhi Bansal
with the kind permission of the Theodore Presser Company
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The Peacherine Rag
Scott Joplin
Humouresque op. 31 no. 1
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
At the Dawn of Day/ Loko ku ti ga (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
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The Stones Are Very Hard/ Maribye ma nonoha ngopfu (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Take Nabandkji (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Herero Wedding Dance
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Iroro
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Edo
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Pende (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Christian Onyeji
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Nathaniel Dett
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Howard Swanson
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Prelude No. 2 'Poor Mourner's Got a Home'
Wallace M. Cheatham
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Christian Onyeji
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John W. Work III
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J.H. Kwabena Nketia
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Joshua Uzoigwe
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Ulysses Kay
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Prelude No. 1 'Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho'
Wallace M. Cheatham
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Amadeo Roldan y Gardes
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Florence B. Price
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Akin Euba
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Igbá Kìnní - Akèrè gbè Baba Emu
Akin Euba
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Halim El-Dabh
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Halim El-Dabh
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J. H. Kwabena Nketia
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Betty Jackson King
grade 7
Le garçon qui passe (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
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Deep River (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor
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They Will Not Lend Me A Child/ A ba boleki nwana (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Duke Ellington
Julian Joseph
Scott Joplin
Yuji Takahashi
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Moving Shadows Under Water (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
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Night Music
Yuji Takahashi
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Revelation from the Sea (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
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Before Dawn (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
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Juhi Bansal
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Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Mother Earth (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Agbadza
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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If the Silver Bird Could Speak
Eleanor Alberga
Take Me Back
John W. Work III
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Ludovic Lamothe
R. Nathaniel Dett
Oswald Russell
Florence B. Price
Oswald Russell
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Variations on an Egyptian Folksong
Gamal Abdel-Rahim
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Flowers in the Sand: Colours in the Dunes
Bongani Ndodana-Breen
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Diana Arismendi
Prelude
George Walker
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grade 8
​​Oren
Julian Joseph
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Dispersed Calligraphy
Yuji Takahashi
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Bachiana Afroasiatica (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
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kerokero kororo (graphic score)
Yuji Takahashi
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Flowers in the Sand: After the First Rain
Bongani Ndodana-Breen
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Wallace M. Cheatham
Scenes from Traditional Life No. 1
Akin Euba
Ed Bland
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Tania Leon
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Errollyn Wallen
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Julia Perry
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Caprice
George Walker
Joshua Uzoigwe
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Troubled Water
Margaret Bonds
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Gyimah Labi
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Barka
Fred Onovwerosuoke
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Raging River Dance (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
grade 8+
To Anacreon in the US
Anthony R. Green
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Bluedream
Brittany J. Green
Halim El-Dabh
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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
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Florence B. Price
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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Humoresque No. 1
Oswald Russell
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H. Leslie Adams
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Ali Osman
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Joshua Uzoigwe
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Lettie Beckon Alston
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Toru Takemitsu
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