the home of contemporary neo-classical piano music
Welcome to the home of Piano Hive. Here you will find our full range of Piano books from beginner, intermediate to advanced, covering grades 1 to 5. We recommend you take a look at our store and hope you will find a piano book to suit your needs.
When writing our piano pieces, we aim to make them enjoyable to play whilst achieving the required techniques and key signatures for your level. We hope you can use our piano books to improve your playing, help you to relax and advance your expressive playing and pedal technique.
Whatever it is, we appreciate you choosing a Piano Hive book and we invite you to get in touch if you have any questions or require any advice!
Enjoy, James and Janette
THE COMPOSERS
Janette Mason
Janette Mason is a jazz pianist, a composer for film and TV, an arranger and producer of all genres from jazz to soul to pop, and a dedicated and heartfelt musical communicator. Over the course of a thirty-year career she has quietly but emphatically made her presence felt, delighting audiences with her skills in all kinds of settings, from tiny jazz clubs to international film and TV projects. To those in the know she’s become a byword for artistic quality and emotional authenticity. Whether leading her own trio in jazz reworkings of pop classics, playing sessions with Oasis, Pulp, or Seal, working with legendary producer Tony Visconti’s and Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy, scoring for film and TV Janette always stays true to her core values – a commitment to musical excellence. Janette is currently Artist In Residence At The Exchange Theatre in Twickenham London.
James Alexander Thompson
James, a classically trained pianist from an early age, he went on to study jazz at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music before attaining a BA Hons in Pop Music from Leeds Conservatoire and winning the Friends Prize Award for his penultimate piano recital. He has been involved in many aspects of the music business since then from live performing and session work for TV ads to composing and educating. His music has been played on programs such as Coronation Street, Home & Away, Love is Blind, Emmerdale and Life in Colour with David Attenborough. Most recently he was nominated for a 2023 Music Production Award for his track ‘Love At First Sight’.
