Home of the very best in the Scottish musical tradition played on the piano.
Muriel Johnstone has had an intimate relationship with music and the piano all her life, and has delighted music lovers and dancers all around the world with her superb renditions of Scottish traditional music. Her background, training, skill and taste is wide-ranging, which leaves you exposed to a repertoire of both traditional and self-composed modern Scottish music in a most unique manner.
Qualified in the study of classical music (B.Mus and L.R.A.M.) and adept in various Scottish idioms, she has become sought after as a performer, accompanist (especially for dance) and teacher, bringing into prominence the role of piano in traditional music.
Muriel has composed well over 1,000 pieces of music in the Scottish genre many of which are for dancing. Some of these compositions were commissioned to celebrate events, festivals and to complement newly devised dances. Her Scottish dance music includes reels, jigs, strathspeys, concert strathspeys, pastoral airs and waltzes while her additional repertoire encompasses other forms of music inspired variously by landscape, nature or the written word. Her renditions of some of the fiddle concert strathspeys and airs on the two ‘Masters of the Tradition’ CDs are superb.
She has recently completed a number of Christmas carols and recently had her first choral work celebrating Bannockburn premiered in Blair Castle. She is currently working on music to accompany a Scottish historical documentary.
Muriel’s latest CD, ‘Beneath the Ben’, includes a number of pieces of music inspired by living adjacent to Ben-y-Vrackie in Pitlochry and is a truly inspiring recording showing her incredible abilities both as a composer and pianist.
Browse the store to purchase some of Muriel’s work on CD or in music books, by adding them to your basket. The majority of the music and dance books in the store are now available in both hard copy and electronic downloadable format.
Enjoy listening or dancing to some of the best traditional Scottish music the world has to offer. You can read some of the reviews of Muriel’s work on the Reviews section of each product.
