The theme from the BBC TV serial “EastEnders” was the first arrangement I wrote for electronic organ – an easier one around Yamaha Grade 8 level. It’s now been digitised and tidied up; I had written an introduction, but I’ve left it off to enable it to fit neatly on…
The newest arrangement added to the new Music With Simone Shop is one that I completed today, of a piece I’ve been eager to play at our monthly Theatre Organ Society concerts. I have a number of versions of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” in my own library, but I’ve found them frustrating…
Frank Mills’ “Happy Song” was the first organ arrangement that I ever wrote down, around the age of 9 years old! Writing arrangements was a requirement for the Yamaha Organ exams I completed, and I’m so glad that I had to arrange songs from an early age, as I soon…
Congratulations to Arita and Neerav for their hard work, with the certificates for their video performances sent in to the Australian Guild of Music & Speech’s 2025 Virtual Festival over the weekend having come in with some lovely comments.
When I was 11 years old, I wrote a rather advanced arrangement of Saint-Saens’ “The Carnival of the Animals” to perform on the Yamaha Electone HX-1 at the 1989 Yamaha Electone Festival. It was my first arrangement for the HX-1, as in previous years I played the FX-20. The significantly…
Congratulations to Ilisha and Sethuli for both earning Platinum awards in the 2025 AGMS Virtual Festival. It’s wonderful that this festival provides students with a performance goal to work towards, and that beginners are able to access it as well as students at higher levels.
I’ve decided to move my arrangements of sheet music to a dedicate website on a subdomain of this one, so that I can handle all the sales of pieces in the public domain in house. I discovered that most traffic to my arrangements was coming to my website first and…
Congratulations to Melissa Almeida Mangiapia for earning a Platinum Award in the 2025 Australian Guild of Music & Speech Virtual Festival for her performance of “Ode to Joy” in the Step 2 Piano category.
Congratulations to Emma, who successfully completed her Rockschool Grade 5 Piano exam back in March with very pleasing results just 8 months after completing her Grade 4 exam. The certificate finally arrived today.
I’m thrilled to see yet another Platinum Award for a student entering the 2025 Australian Guild of Music and Speech’s 2025 Virtual Festival. Congratulations to Anay for such a wonderful result for his Step 2 entry.
