I’m delighted to be featured on a compilation released by Less Records called Fugle - A Keybird Compilation alongside wonderful artists like Tom Blankenberg, Simeon Walker, and Raffael Seyfried, all performing on the unique Keybird XI piano.
My track was improvised on the day of recording and is called “Brushing The Strings”. It’s available now wherever you stream music.
Read More‘Beautiful Ache’, the fifth single from Life Through Loss, is out now. The music portrays longing and reflects the simple truth that there’s no grief without love.
Read MoreThe third single from Life Through Loss is called ‘Just Another Day (Without You)’. It captures the fleeting peace of waking before the memory of loss rushes in.
Read More‘Concrete Bunks’, the first single from my next album Life Through Loss, is out now.
This beautifully strange piano piece drifts through eerie harmonies that somehow offer solace, reflecting on the solemn spaces we build to visit our lost loved ones.
Find it wherever you listen to music.
Read MoreTwo of my projects have been nominated in the Best Digital Resource category at the 2025 Art of Piano Teaching Awards.
Piano Creativity is a site for piano teachers who want to use more improvisation and creativity in their piano lessons.
Piano Chords in All Keys is a set of two digital books co-written with Ruth Alberici. These help students to quickly understand chords in a practical, visual way.
Read MoreMy new single is a collaboration. Simeon Walker have known each other for getting close to a decade now. I love his music and really value his friendship, so I'm really delighted that we worked together on this piece.
My simple harmony is enhanced by Sim's melodic interjections, a nice metaphor for the many conversations about music and life that we've shared.
I've got a new single out. It's called 'Rethinking Bach'.
Read MoreMy latest piece, "Outlines Through Mist", is out now.
Read MoreTogether with Ruth Alberici, I’ve just published a book for piano teachers who want to teach chords — but want it to be fun and practical. I’m a bit biased but I think it’s the best chord book out there. I hope you’ll check it out!
Read MoreThis month’s edition of TopMusicMag is all about teaching creativity, and features a helpful guide to finding time for creativity in piano lessons written by me!
Read MoreMy latest single, "Dust of Snow" is out now. This one is inspired by the poem of the same name by Robert Frost, and was written in collaboration with a friend of mine, Mari Kanki.
Read MoreMy new track The Foehn Wind is out now. This swirling, unpredictable composition takes its name from the hot, dry wind that flows down from mountains. As I was writing it, I was thinking of balmy evenings drinking wine on a sun-baked terrace, looking out towards mountain ranges standing tall in the distance.
It has some unusual chord progressions and is in both 6/8 and 3/4 time. Sheet music is available!
Read MoreMy latest track is out now. The piece is part of Clemens Christian Poetzsch’s and Reentko Dirks’ latest album, Collateral Flow, and there's a vinyl that features my piece alongside music from other wonderful musicians like Cenk Erdoğan and Sven Helbig.
Read MoreMy new elegy is written for my friend Donna, who we called Doon. She died suddenly and unexpectedly a couple of years ago and it really shook me up. In this post I explain the composition process, talk about what I loved about my about my wonderful friend, and explore grief more generally. The full piece is available wherever you stream music — click here.
Read MoreMy new track, an Elegy for Colin, is out now.
If you'd like me to write a piece for your late partner, don't hesitate to ask. You can find out more about the project here: garrethbrooke.com/elegies
Read MoreMy new single, Enkindled Spring, is out now! It’s about the feeling of life returning to the Earth after a long winter and is named for D H Lawrence’s poem of the same name (click “read more” to find out more). You can stream it here.
This is one of my liveliest pieces that I've released recently and it switches between A dorian and F# minor, in what I think is one of the coolest modulations I've ever written. It's great fun to play! Sheet music is available.
Read MorePianoCreativity.com is for piano teachers who want to improvise and compose with their students but don’t know where to start. I've been writing it since March 2024 and there's now a lovely community of teachers. I hope you join us!
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