Have You Ever Wanted to Be a Composer?
I started composing around the age of 9. Although my first pieces sounded a lot like the Czerny Etudes my piano teacher was having me practice at the time, that didn’t stop me from continuing to explore this talent I had. I continued to compose because I had musical ideas flowing through my mind that I simply had to put on paper. Over the past few years, my repertoire has grown from that one-page piano piece I wrote when I was 9, to pop songs, choral arrangements, orchestral pieces, film music, and numerous other piano solo works.
My most recent project is a piano album which consists of Christmas arrangements for intermediate-level pianists. I am going to publish it this fall in Romania, my home country. I have been working on these piano arrangement for the past three months, and I couldn’t be more excited. Most of them are Romanian Christmas carols, but I also included other well-known international songs, such as Silent Night, Away in a Manger, and Jingle Bells. Each arrangement presents a different aspect of music that the young pianist will develop technically:
- 4-part hymn-style
- melody + accompaniment
- melody in the left hand
- church bells
- jazz chords
- contrapuntal writing
- syncopated accompaniment
– Raluca Bojor, Piano Teacher at the Jerry Evans School of Music
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