Solo Time for Cello
This exciting new 2-volume collection of repertoire from the Baroque to the modern age is now published. Book 1 suitable for intermediate players and book 2 for advanced players. See full details here.
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Solo Time for Violin
Most of the pieces in these books are now available to buy separately as digital downloads from selected retailers listed here.
Fiddle and Viola Time Joggers, third edition
We’re delighted to announce that third editions of Fiddle Time Joggers and Viola Time Joggers are now published! There’s audio on major streaming platforms and from the OUP website, 3 new pieces and all your favourite tunes. New pupil and piano and string accompaniment books.
Piano Star Theory
We’ve added some posters/worksheets to our website for pupils to complete and enjoy, that will help reinforce the knowledge they’ve gained from the book. Full details here.
Chinese Edition of Fiddle Time
Delighted to see that Fiddle Time is now published in a Chinese language edition! Short video of the launch on our Facebook page.
Fiddle Time Scales 1
We’ve added free playalong or download audios for all the scales and arpeggios in Fiddle Time Scales 1 on our website – here. We hope these offer useful practice to pupils as they do more work at home in these strange times! We’ll be adding audio for some of the pieces from the book in the next week or so.
ABRSM String Syllabus 2020-2023
We’re delighted to have a number of our pieces in the ABRSM string syllabus 2020-2023. See the full lists here: violin viola cello
Trinity String Syllabus 2020-2023
We’re very pleased that a number of our pieces have been selected for the Trinity College, London string syllabus. See the full lists here: violin viola cello
Audio tracks
No CD player? If you don’t have a CD player and require audio files of tracks from any of our books, please contact Oxford University Press at music.enquiry.uk@oup.com
Music Education Award
We were delighted to receive the Jacquie Bugeja Award for Significant Contribution to Music Education in Oxfordshire and Beyond from Oxfordshire County Music Service at a special award ceremony in Oxford on 23 September 2017. Many thanks to Head of Service Angela Turton and all who supported us and for a lovely evening!
ESTA UK Award
We were delighted and honoured to receive an award from ESTA UK in recognition of exceptional services to string teaching. This was presented to us at an inspiring weekend in May 2017 at Saffron Hall by Nicola Benedetti.
Starters - Rhythm variations
We’ve added fully written out versions of the pieces from the Starters books with rhythm variations to our Downloads page. Click here to download PDFs for violin, viola or cello.
The Strad - Ask the Experts
Kathy shares her ideas on a pupil sharing more than one teacher in the January 2017 edition of The Strad.
