JAMES WILDING
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Compositions
  • About
    • Bio
    • Photos
    • List of Works
  • Media
    • Reviews
    • Albums
    • Listen
    • Watch
  • Contact

SOUTH AFRICAN FOLK SONGS Published

A new collection of songs from South Africa is co-authored with Nkululeko Zungu and published by Hal Leonard
AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER OR DIGITAL BOOK
Picture
Purchase Score at Hal Leonard

Watch our Introductory Videos


SOUTH AFRICAN FOLK SONGS Reviewed in Pianodao

"Wilding and Zungu’s brilliant arrangements are as enjoyable as they are playable; exploring the collection proved an enriching experience, and these are pieces to which I will undoubtedly return."

Andrew Eales, piano educator
Read the full review here

WATCH: Hal Leonard’s Webinar Diverse New Repertoire for Fall

Picture

Jury Member in Foshan

The Final Round of the First Foshan Composers Contest was broadcast on 31 December 2022 
Picture
Picture
Picture

WATCH: the final round of the 1st Foshan Composers Contest


Recent Premiers

Bath, Ohio
Shavi

17 June 2022
Caroline Oltmanns, piano
Picture
Purchase Score
Ohio and Indiana
​​Other Worlds for saxophone quartet

3, 4, 5 April 2022

​The University of Akron
The Ohio State University
Butler University

The Iovi Quartet
Todd Gaffke
Michael Rene Torres
Heidi Radtke
J. Adam Briggs
Picture
Picture
Peruse the score
Purchase Score and Parts
Akron, Ohio
Two Pieces for orchestra
     1. Staying at Home
​     2. Together


​Sunday 14 November 2021 at 3 pm
North High School, Akron
Akron Youth Symphony

Eric Benjamin, conductor
Picture
Picture
Peruse the score
Purchase Score and Parts
Akron, Ohio
​Canons for saxophone, clarinet, and piano

Sunday 29 August 2021 at 3:00 pm
Guzzetta Recital Hall, The University of Akron
​Todd Gaffke, Stanislav Golovin, James Wilding
Picture
Picture
Peruse the score
Purchase Score and Parts
Youngstown, Ohio
The Garden Had Fallen Still for chamber orchestra

Sunday 2 May 2021 at 3:00 pm
Ford Family Recital Hall, DeYor Performing Arts Center, Youngstown, Ohio
The Dana Ensemble
Picture
Picture
Peruse the score
Purchase Score and Parts

New Sounds

Picture
Mbira: a Lamellophone from Southern Africa
During one of my many trips back to my native South Africa, I picked up one of these beautiful instruments. They are easily available at craft markets, tourist shops, or just sold by the side of the road. Part of the Venda and Shona traditions, this type of instrument is also found further North, where it may be known as a Kalimba or Sansa.

The tuning of each member of this family is unique. For my mbira, the lowest notes are in the middle, the highest on the left and right, with different pentatonic scales in each of these two registers.

​Read more and hear this instrument on my blog
Read My Blog

Sample Scores

Purchase Scores and Parts

WATCH: Composing and Creativity

James Wilding talks about his composition process on the January video of Urban Troubadour's Online Roving Adventures
Picture
Watch on Urban Troubadour

New Videos

Picture
Purchase Score
Picture
Purchase Score
Watch More Videos

Album PICTURES Reviewed in clevelandclassical.com

"In Pictures, the debut album from composer and pianist James Wilding, every piece was inspired by something outside the world of music, from the concrete (a particular sculpture) to the abstract (a vision of the end of the world)... perhaps the biggest draw of listening to Pictures is the unique glimpse it gives into one artist’s process of composition" - Jarrett Hoffman
Read Full Review Here
Purchase Album
Picture

Album Launch

Impressions from the album launch at Steinway Piano Galley on 4 April 2019
Photography by Missy Iler

Recording the Album

Video from the studio in Mount Vernon, New York
​Drops of Memory occur predictably, while the harmony changes gradually and unpredictably, forming a texture of individual notes dancing over a canvas of ever expanding and contracting harmonic progressions.
Inspired by a Zimbabwean stone sculpture of a maternal spirit, Nehanda Remembered uses quartal chords to represent the solid stone and the nurturing mother.

Preparing for the Project

The composer talks about the process of practicing his own music

Kaupo Kikkas Photography

Amazing shots by award-winning Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas

​© James Wilding 2023. All content owned or used with permission.
Privacy Policy
Picture
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Compositions
  • About
    • Bio
    • Photos
    • List of Works
  • Media
    • Reviews
    • Albums
    • Listen
    • Watch
  • Contact