Mark Tanner’s music covers a wide variety of styles and instruments, and is popular with ABRSM, Trinity College and London College. Around 50 pieces have been selected for piano, brass and woodwind syllabuses. His five volume piano series entitled ‘Scapes’ was shortlisted for the Best Print Resource at the Music Teacher Awards, and Mark’s piano music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.

Mark has perfomed extensively, having appeared on many occasions at London’s Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St John’s Smith Square. In excess of 300 recitals have been given at sea on all of the Cunard, Saga and P&O lines, many with flautist Gillian Poznansky, and his recordings, which have made an especial feature of new commissions and previously unrecorded works, have achieved consistently glowing reviews: “Magnificent playing”, Gramophone.

As well as having published over 70 volumes of compositions, transcriptions and arrangements with various publishing houses, Faber have published six books/repertoire volumes, including The Mindful Pianist (also published in Chinese) and The Piano in Black and White, the latter pitched at the independent adult learner. Mark has published around 50 feature-length ‘Masterclass’ articles for Pianist Magazine and has written hundreds of reviews and articles for a number of leading music publications. He has also published two books on mindfulness for Leaping Hare Press: Mindfulness in Music (also published in Spanish) and Mindfulness in Sound. Mark holds a PhD and Honorary degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

He is a member of Mensa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a veteran adjudicator for B.I.F.F. For ABRSM Mark has examined grades and diplomas for 20 years, having undertaken nearly 50 international tours to all continents. He has also adjudicated the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician.

Soundscapes is Book 5 of 5 in a series of original piano pieces, the others being Seascapes, Cityscapes, Dreamscapes and Nightscapes.

The music itself draws from…