Christopher Norton's popular Jazz Preludes Collection for piano, played by the US-based pianist Nicola Melville.

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Christopher Norton: Blue April from the Jazz Preludes Collection, played by Nicola Melville

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Christopher Norton, the composer of the world-famous Microjazz series, plays his own Rock Preludes Collection, as set of 14 intermediate pieces for solo piano. Published by Booset & Hawkes and available at www.boosey.com. Midi files of these pieces can be found at www.christophernortonmidi.com and videos performances on Youtube - christophermicrojazz. 

Christopher Norton: Barnyard Blues from the Rock Preludes Collection

This piece, which I wrote in 2016, is inspired by the first words spoken on the telephone -- "come here, I want to see you"; and the poem "Vernon Street" by Heather Christle. Broken phrases and stasis actualize the dichotomy between a modern abundance of communication and its tendency to occur in real-life isolation. 

Han Shi and George Meyer, violin
recorded by Jack Frerer

Come here come here (2016)

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Christopher Norton's Rock Duets, both parts played by the composer.

Christopher Norton is acclaimed as a composer, producer, arranger and educationalist and has written stage musicals, ballet scores, piano music, popular songs and orchestral music as well as jingles and signature tunes for TV and radio. He has become particularly well-known for his appealing, educationally sound pieces in popular styles, pre-eminently the Microjazz and Microstyles collections, published by Boosey & Hawkes, the world's leading classical music publisher. He is also well-known, particularly in North America, for his Connections series as well as for his innovative American Popular Piano series.  

Chris has presented in literally dozens of countries around the world, with recent touring taking him from to the USA and Canada, Australia and India. He has been the instigator of many Christopher Norton Piano Festivals around the world, which see him working with many students in both improvisation groups and master classes. 

Christopher’s publications are very well represented on examination boards and Festival and competition programs throughout the world, in particular the ABRSM in the UK, the Certificate of Merit in California, the RCME in Canada and the AMEB and ANZCA in Australia and Asia. Students always gravitate towards Christopher Norton pieces and are known to scour a new syllabus or Festival programmes to make sure there are some Christopher Norton pieces to choose from!

Christopher lectures all over the world on aspects of his work and likes to integrate traditional teaching methods with aspects of modern technology. He has also found time to produce huge numbers of albums for the gospel market, with releases worldwide selling in excess of 1,000,000 units.

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