Tchaikovsky Seasons Transcribed for Viola and Piano

You can find the music here on the Groth Music Company's website, or you can order it directly from the International Music Company via their new issues page.

Transcription: Lili Boulanger Nocturne and Cortege for Viola and Piano

Published by International Music Company and available through this link.

Transcription: Ysaye Reve d'enfant for viola and piano

This transcription is available from the International Music Company.

Arrangements: Elgar Salut d'Amour for Piano Quartet and for Viola and Piano

This is available from the Johnson Music Company. You can find an arrangement of the same piece for piano quintet here.

There is also an International edition of my transcription for viola and piano (they asked me to do all three). You can find it on this page.

Transcription: Ethel Smyth Cello Sonata, Opus 5, for Viola and Piano

You can find the music on this page of the IMSLP.

Transcription: Rachmaninoff Sonata, Opus 19

I love playing the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata on the viola, and I'm happy that the International Music Company liked my transcription (which can be used with the original piano part)! You can get it through the International Music Company's online shop.

Transcriptions: Adoration by Florence Price for Violin or Viola, Flute, Clarinet, or for String Orchestra or Chamber Orchestra

You can download the music for this transcription on this page of the IMSLP.

2019 UPDATE:



I made an arrangement for string orchestra. You can find the score and parts on the same page of the IMSLP, or you can find them here.

Here it is played by the Scottish Freelancers Ensemble



2020 UPDATE:

I made an arrangement for flute and piano that you can find here, and on the same page in the IMSLP as the violin and piano transcription.

This transcription for clarinet (or bass clarinet) and piano is also available on the same page of the IMSLP.

And here's a video of the violin and piano transcription, put together by violinist Augustin Hadelich (who is playing the piano part):

Here are the musicians Augustin is playing with:

Geneva Lewis, Patricia Cole, Akemi Takayama, Arun Asthagiri, Giuseppe Mengoli, Wei-Chung Chen, Karen Silva, Sharon Kwee, Nadia Ettinger, Joyce Kwak, Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Cheryl Gaudiano, Trent Ransom, Celina Bethoux, You-Jung Han, Malhar Kute, Mai Matsumoto, Savion Washington, Alberta Douglas, Jana Kaiser-Döge, Rachel Ginebra (guitar), Bruce Goldstein, Emily Corbett, Emily Kalish, Ion Scripcaru, Gonzalo Beltran, Amy Wang-Hiller, Phoebe Liu, Antoniu-Theodor Andreescu, Emilia Wagner, Natalie Wong, Sofia Nikas (viola), Raquel Pascual Peña, Selah Kwak, Mark Miller, Juan Luis Sosa and Bassam Nashawati.

Transcription: Ravel Sonata Posthume for Viola

You can find the violin part transcribed for viola on this page of the IMSLP. It works with the original piano part, and sounds great on the viola.

Transcription: Amanda Maier Pieces for Viola and Piano

Two of Amanda Maier's Six Pieces for Violin and Piano work beautifully when played down an octave on the viola, so I made this transcription to share the incredible wealth found in this music. You can find a score and a computer-generated recording on this page of the IMSLP Petrucci Library. You can also listen here.

Amanda Maier (1853-1894) was born into a Swedish working-class family, and in 1869 became the first woman to receive a music degree from the Stockholm Conservatory of Music. From 1873 to 1876 she studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Engelbert Röntgen, the concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. She married his piano-playing son Julius. Maier, her father-in-law, and her son all played the Lipinski Stradivarius, the instrument that was stolen in January 2014 from Frank Almond, and subsequently returned.

Maier and her husband entertained Johannes Brahms and Edward Grieg in their home. Both Brahms and Grieg (who were frequent guests in Maier’s home) admired her ability as a composer, but the ethos of the time prevailed, and when Amanda became a mother, her main musical outlet became teaching her sons. She taught them well: Julius Röntgen Jr. became the second violinist in the Kneisel Quartet, and Engelbert Röntgen Jr. became the principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Maier’s Sechs Stücke were published in 1879 by the Leipzig publisher Breitkopf & Hartel, one year after Swedish publication of her Violin Sonata.

UPDATE: I made an arrangement for string orchestra that you can listen to here:
You can find the music on the same page of the IMSLP.