Composer Spotlight: Phillip Keveren

  Today I begin a new series of posts about composers.  I plan to feature a different composer every now and then and provide examples of their music.  

  Today's composer is a contemporary composer who is still actively composing music today.  His name is Phillip Keveren.  

   According to the website phillipkeveren.com, Mr. Keveren composes in many different genres.  A genre  of music is a style or kind of music.

  Mr. Keveren has written piano music for the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. He also has books of music called The Phillip Keveren Series. Some of you may have played some of his piano music.  
(You can find a list of some of his music here.)
  
  Piano music is not the only kind of music Mr. Keveren writes. He also creates orchestrations or music that is made for an orchestra to play.

In the videos below, you can watch performances of some of Phillip Keveren's piano music. Which pieces do you like the most?  Is there a piece you would like to learn someday?

Quick Spin in a Fast Car

Blue

A Misty Morning

All of these pieces were performed by Dr. Alan Huckleberry for The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project. This is a current project and they are adding piano music to it every week with the goal of recording 9,000 piano pieces that students can learn to play.