#EVERY
VOICE
CHALLENGE
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.
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!
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.
beginner
pieces
Grade 3
Portrait of Leonore (in G minor)
Brian Kim
We Real Cool: piano etude #4
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Passiflora
Yuji Takahashi (ed. K. Arku)
Hale Smith
grade 4
Valerie Capers
Kagayaki, Op.26 No.2
Sakri Abe (arr. K. Arku)
HB4A
Regina Harris Baiocchi
Scott Joplin (arr. Vaitzman Or)
Valerie Capers
Waltz for Miles
Valerie Capers
Ulysses Kay
Nkeiru Okoye
Hale Smith
grade 5
Scott Joplin
La femme complexe (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
Udje
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Ayevwiomo Dance no. 2
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Tunis
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Billie's Song
Valerie Capers
Valerie Capers
Mr. Satchmo
Valerie Capers
Cancion de la Havana
Valerie Capers
Breeze
Toru Takemitsu
Florence B. Price
Nkeiru Okoye
Buy
Rippling Spring Waltz
Estelle D. Ricketts
Lullaby
Bangambula Vindu
Lament in Tremelo Form
Laurindo Almeida
Piano Piece No. 2, Call and Response
Robert Mawuena Kwami
Cuban Liberty March
Anna Gardner Goodwin
grade 6
Miss Simmons
Julian Joseph (arr. Michael Csanyi-Wills)
La fille dans les nuages (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
La mère dans le marché (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
Juhi Bansal
with the kind permission of the Theodore Presser Company
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
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
Iroro
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Edo
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Pende (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Christian Onyeji
Nathaniel Dett
Howard Swanson
Prelude No. 2 'Poor Mourner's Got a Home'
Wallace M. Cheatham
Christian Onyeji
John W. Work III
J.H. Kwabena Nketia
Joshua Uzoigwe
Ulysses Kay
Prelude No. 1 'Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho'
Wallace M. Cheatham
Amadeo Roldan y Gardes
Florence B. Price
Akin Euba
Igbá Kìnní - Akèrè gbè Baba Emu
Akin Euba
Halim El-Dabh
Halim El-Dabh
J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Betty Jackson King
grade 7
Le garçon qui passe (from Portraits for piano)
Brittany J. Green
Deep River (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor
They Will Not Lend Me A Child/ A ba boleki nwana (from Twenty-Four Negro Melodies)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Duke Ellington
Julian Joseph
Scott Joplin
Yuji Takahashi
Moving Shadows Under Water (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
Night Music
Yuji Takahashi
Revelation from the Sea (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
Before Dawn (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
Juhi Bansal
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Mother Earth (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Agbadza
Fred Onovwerosuoke
If the Silver Bird Could Speak
Eleanor Alberga
Take Me Back
John W. Work III
Ludovic Lamothe
R. Nathaniel Dett
Oswald Russell
Florence B. Price
Oswald Russell
Variations on an Egyptian Folksong
Gamal Abdel-Rahim
Flowers in the Sand: Colours in the Dunes
Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Diana Arismendi
Prelude
George Walker
grade 8
Oren
Julian Joseph
Dispersed Calligraphy
Yuji Takahashi
Bachiana Afroasiatica (any movement)
Yuji Takahashi
kerokero kororo (graphic score)
Yuji Takahashi
Flowers in the Sand: After the First Rain
Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Wallace M. Cheatham
Scenes from Traditional Life No. 1
Akin Euba
Ed Bland
Tania Leon
Errollyn Wallen
Julia Perry
Caprice
George Walker
Joshua Uzoigwe
Troubled Water
Margaret Bonds
Gyimah Labi
Barka
Fred Onovwerosuoke
Raging River Dance (from 24 Studies in African Rhythms Vol. 2)
Fred Onovwerosuoke
grade 8+
To Anacreon in the US
Anthony R. Green
Bluedream
Brittany J. Green
Halim El-Dabh
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Florence B. Price
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Humoresque No. 1
Oswald Russell
H. Leslie Adams
Ali Osman
Joshua Uzoigwe
Lettie Beckon Alston
Toru Takemitsu