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J. Evans Music Press

PIANO MUSIC

My piano music utilizes conventional techniques from canonical keyboard repertoire. It has been my goal to compose music for pianists that is both practical and engaging. Immediate accessibility, idiomatic keyboard writing, and stylistic eclecticism are three hallmarks of my piano music. Hopefully, I have composed piano music that appeals to students, teachers, amateurs, and virtuosos alike.

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Some of my piano music has been recognized in competitions including the New York City Contemporary Music Symposium- Call for Scores (Three Inventions-FINALIST) and New York City's Locrian Chamber Players- Call for Scores (Five Pages From A City Journal-WINNER). My piano music falls neatly into 5 categories: 1) Easy piano music (early intermediate to early advanced), 2) neoclassical works, 3) eclectic-contemporary works, 4) collaborative piano works, and 5) piano with orchestra. Below you will find links to SHEETMUSICDIRECT to purchase scores. 

Piano on Dim Stage

PIANO WORKS


EASY PIANO WORKS

(Early intermediate- early advanced)

 

Two Lyrical Sketches for the Young

1. The Cuckoo & the Nightingale

2. Carnival Fantasy

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Lyrical Sketchbook (12 easy pcs.)

1. Song Without Words

2. Wizards’ Dance

3. A Christmas Waltz

4. Constellation

5. Jukebox Boogie Woogie

6. Sentimental Souvenir

(to Florence Price)

7. Music Box Medley

8. Tarantella in A Minor

9. Preludium in C# Minor

10. Riverside Rag (to Scott Joplin)

11. El Toreador

12. Rejoice!

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Three Lyrical Duets

for piano 4-hands

1. Fantasia in D Minor

2. Song of the Meadowlark

3. Jubilee Texas

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Two Canzonas

1. Canzona in D Major

2. Canzona in Blue

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Four American Canvas Sketches

1. John Abbott McNeill Whistler,

Nocturne in Black & Gold

2. Mary Cassatt,

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

3. Henry Ossawa Tanner,

The Banjo Lesson

4. Winslow Homer,

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)

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Three American Bagatelles

1. Overture

2. Ballad

3. Reel

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NEOCLASSICAL

PIANO WORKS

(Advanced concert works)

 

Three Inventions

1. Heron’s Engine

2. Archimedes’ Spiral

3. Da Vinci’s Flying Machine

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Two Nocturnes

1. Nocturne

(For A World On Fire)

2. Nocturne

(For A World Frozen In Time)

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Toccata

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Sonatina

1. Ballad

2. Arietta-Interlude

3. Finale

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Sonata

1. Prelude

2. Basso Ostinato

3. Scherzo

4. Elegy

5. Finale

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Fantasia & Allegro Ostinato

1. Radiant and rhapsodic

2. Rustic and driving

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ECLECTIC-CONTEMPORARY

PIANO WORKS

(Advanced concert works)

 

Lyrical Etude in C

 

Three Epigraphs

1. Poetic with a steady tempo

2. Pensive and a bit subdued

3. Ruminating with expression

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Four Short Waltzes

1. Languid and sentimental

2. Nostalgically

3. With ease and simplicity

4. Melodious with a lilt

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Shades & Hues, BOOK 1 (1-7)

1. Maximum Red

2. Desert Sand

3. Jazzberry Jam

4. Midnight Blue

5. Royal Purple

6. Sea Foam Green

7. Black Leather Jacket

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Shades & Hues, BOOK 2 (8-14)

1. White Smoke

2. Palomino Gold

3. Ghost White

4. Tart Orange

5. Dark Gray

6. Tie-Dye Spiral

7. Raven Black

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Five Pages from a City Journal

1. Beat on the Street

2. Remembrance

3. Funny Page

4. Musing

5. Metropolitan Express

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COLLECTIONS

Collected Piano Works, BOOK 1

(Easy Works)

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Collected Piano Works, BOOK 2

(Neoclassical Works)

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Collected Piano Works, BOOK 3

(Eclectic-Contemporary Works)

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COLLABORATIVE
PIANO WORKS


Piano Trio:
Music for the Veneration of Two Saints 

for violin, cello, and piano
1. Kyrie
2. Vespers
3. Te Deum

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Piano Quartet: Memories of Summer
for Bb clarinet, violin, cello, & piano
1. Basso Ostinato
2. Commemoration
3. Scherzo
4. Soliloquy
5. Play Song
6. Gulf Breeze
7. Threnody
8. Introduction & Finale

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​PIANO WITH ORCHESTRA


Concerto

for piano and string orchestra
1. Prelude-Variations
2. Scherzo
3. Fantasy
4. Toccata
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