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Sheet Music Publisher of the Year 2022 & 2023

(SME News Southern Enterprise Awards, August 2022 & August 2023)

Music Publishing Company of the Year 2023–2024

(Corporate LiveWire Global Awards, March 2024)

Fand Music Press is a publisher of high quality sheet music, CDs and books, all focussing on accessible 20th Century and contemporary composers and concentrating mainly on first editions. Please use the tabs at the top of the page to explore the catalogue. Further details, such as information about ordering, can be found on the Contact/Info page.


Spring 2024: Corporate LiveWire Global Award

Corporate LiveWire Global Award 2024 award page

Corporate LiveWire Global Award 2024

Having been awarded Sheet Music Publisher of the Year two years running by the SME News Southern Enterprise Awards, Fand Music Press’ reputation for quality and enterprise in music publishing has now been recognised internationally by its being granted a Corporate LiveWire Global Award for:

Music Publishing Company of the Year 2023–2024

In such a competitive market, Fand is delighted to learn of this recognition for its service to contemporary classical music publishing.

The award text (also available to download as a PDF) notes in particular “the quality of the publisher’s platform” and how it is “easy to explore the sheet music, recordings, and books that Fand Music Press offers in its impressive catalogue” of more than 40 composers, authors and recording artists.


November 2023: Blyton, Mitchell and Williams

Fand is excitied to announce a trio of orchestral character pieces by Carey Blyton, plus another new song cycle by John Mitchell and a didactic suite of piano pieces by Adrian Williams:

Mitchell: Secret Joys

Williams: Three Piano Pieces for Eugene

Blyton: Commuter Special

Blyton: Valse Musette

Blyton: Girl Friday

Mitchell: Secret Joys

Mary Webb (1881–1927) had a great love of her native Shropshire, where she spent most of her short life. Her most significant writing dates from her mid-thirties, and her collected poems were not published until shortly after her death. Much of her verse focuses on a detailed observation of the rural Shropshire landscape, with some notable descriptions of nature. The five poems selected for Secret Joys are in this category, and the songs to which they give rise have all been given titles referencing a colour. The name of the collection itself alludes to the original title of the fourth set poem: The Secret Joy.

FM271 John Mitchell
Secret Joys

Five Mary Webb Songs

for voice and piano
£11.25

Williams: Three Piano Pieces for Eugene

Continuing with our Adrian Williams series, we are delighted to present these Three Piano Pieces, a charming, rather English Sicilienne sandwiched between two very vivacious, fast moving numbers, Little Toccata and Scherzetto.

The set is very pianistically laid out and would suit aspiring Grade 6+ players; indeed they were originally written for Adrian’s son, Eugene, when he was about 10 years old. We are happy to report that he enjoyed them very much!

FM272 Adrian Williams
Three Piano Pieces for Eugene
£9.95

Blyton: Three first edition orchestral scores

These three orchestral works were written for different forces and are excellent repertoire, encores or ‘fillers’ for any orchestral concert programme. They are wonderfully tuneful and are thus memorable from a first hearing, and are sure to be loved by most audiences.

FM273 Carey Blyton
Commuter Special

for Orchestra
£8.50
FM274 Carey Blyton
Valse Musette

for Accordion, Harp and String Orchestra
£8.00
FM275 Carey Blyton
Girl Friday

for Piano and String Orchestra
£7.50


October 2023: Thompson: ’Cello Concertino

Thompson: Concertino for Violoncello and Orchestra

Peter Thompson’s ’Cello Concertino was written between 2000 and 2001, and is in three linked movements which run continuously. The second movement references music Thompson wrote at Cambridge Arts College in the early 1970s, specifically the Two Sonnets for Small Orchestra, which were prefaced by words of James Joyce: “Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away.” The Concertino is now available as both a full orchestral score and as a large-format Conductor Score. A piano reduction is also available for purchase. The solo ’cello part is included, and orchestral parts are available on request.

FM269 Peter Thompson
Concertino

for Violoncello and Orchestra
£20.00
FM270 Peter Thompson
Concertino

for Violoncello and Orchestra

Piano Reduction
£15.50


August 2023: Sheet Music Publisher of the Year again!

SME News Southern Enterprise Awards 2023

Fand Music Press is thrilled once again to announce that – for the second year running! – it has been awarded:

Sheet Music Publisher of the Year 2023

in SME News’ seventh annual Southern Enterprise Awards.

Also released this month…

Adrian Williams: Soliloquy for Piano

Williams: Soliloquy for Piano

Fand presents the third work to be published in our ongoing Adrian Williams collection. This piece was commissioned by the Gloucester Music Society and is dedicated to its Chairman, Christine Talbot-Cooper. It was subsequently premiered by Maria Marchant in the Ivor Gurney Hall, Gloucester on November 3rd, 2019. Stylistically contemporarily relevant, Soliloquy also has deep roots in an older tradition and is fabulously written by a composer whose own pianism is of the highest order.

FM268 Adrian Williams
Soliloquy

for Piano
£9.95


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