Saplings features twenty-one early intermediate piano solos and is the second anthology from the composers of Red Leaf Pianoworks. Following Red Leaf’s first elementary volume, Sprouts, this collection raises the technical and interpretive challenges while keeping the repertoire imaginative and inspiring for both the teacher and performer.

from the Fall 2023 review in the Canadian Music Teacher magazine:

“In the wide variety of styles and images represented, students and teachers will surely find many things to interest them, to challenge them, and to draw them into the diversity of 21st century music!

As in the first book, the extensive variety and diversity of moods and styles gives wide scope for using this music for challenge pieces, recital and festival work, and for expending student’s knowledge of 21st century composers and repertoire. This volume is sure to fire the imagination of both student and teacher alike!”  Joyce Janzen – British Columbia