Young Composers
— From the composer: “‘In Adagio in A Minor,’ the rhythm keeps changing under the same time signature of 9/8, with very few common features between different bars. This piece does...
— From the composer: “‘Vivace in F major’ is one of my most special compositions. For one thing, it is my shortest. The bigger reason is that it has a time...
— Kathleen · WerthDoubleRainbow.m4a Signs of rainbows today. And I wonder what the lyricists would say. For I’m wondering, What it could mean? Oh, do you and I know nothing? Been...
— First Flight Fern Hadley, 12 Why not try playing the music for yourself? You can download a PDF copy of all three pages here. The poem First Flight, based on this...
— Moonlight Waltz Micah Lim, 11 “Moonlight Waltz” is a new piece written for piano, saxophone, and drums. I was inspired to compose this when I started learning about jazz style....
— I am the one who composed and performed this piano piece on the recording. I composed it last year. It is in the key of C Major and it was...
— I wrote this piece thinking of something that should flow as a river. I didn’t want the title to be “The River,” but rather something that was more creative and...
— This clarinet trio was inspired by two ideas. First was my perspective from my own apartment. Skyscrapers, bridges, Central Park, and construction outlined the melody of my piece, given to...
— I have been playing saxophone since I moved to Los Angeles from the mountains of Colorado four years ago. This year, I wrote a piece for piano and submitted it...
— I started to compose when I was about 9 years old and wrote about 5 pieces of music. Back then I had played the piano for about 5 years already. I...
— Rik Bhattacharyya, who is twelve, in 2017 wrote this piano piece in response to some of the turmoil taking place in the world today. This is his thinking behind the...
— This lovely song by Kathleen Werth, 8, is beautiful musical moment. There are big formal pieces of music but there are also in all of our lives the songs we...
— This March was composed by Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) when he was six years old. Frederick grew up to become a composer of church music. He started composing at the age of...
— This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 11. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada.
— Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) was a British musician and composer. He specialized in church music. He started writing music when he was three — his sister transcribed those first pieces. A...
— This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 10. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada. This is what he says about the piece, “My video is about waking up...
— Nathan Grabow, a young American composer and pianist performs his original composition entitled Concertino in G Minor for Piano and Strings. He wrote the piece when he was twelve years...
— Joey Alexander (born Josiah Alexander Sila; June 25, 2003) is one of the world’s most recognized child composer/musicians. Born in Bali, Indonesia, he began playing jazz at the age of six....
— One of the most extraordinary things about the world we live in today is that is possible for people who would have had no way to be heard or discovered...
— British Composer, Alma Deutscher (born 2005) is one of the many young composers who are invariably compared by TV interviewers with Mozart, the composer who lived a couple hundred years ago....