On these pages you will find comprehensive information regarding Michael and his works
All works can be viewed and ordered from The Scottish Music Centre.
alternatively you can contact Michael at the address or telephone number on the Works page
Michael is available for piano tution in the Edinburgh area. If you would like to find out more, please contact him direct.
Concert : Sunday 13th June
The Michael Garrett Ensemble
Perform works by Michael Garrett
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. 6pm
Admission free
New Recording
Michael's very first CD is now available consisting of piano works on the Polish label Acte Prèalable performed by the brilliant Barbara Karaśkiewicz. The UK distributor is : CD No.AP0232 Disc Imports Ltd. Magnus House. 8 Ashfield Road, Cheadle, Cheshire. Tel: 0161 491 6655 email:dimus@aol.com. A review of this CD by Jonathan Woolf and be found on the musicweb-international website.
New Publishing Deal
Europa Edition Ltd have recently added two songs to their catalogue : Searching for Spring and Galla water in a dual volume - available now.
Garrett and David Bowie...
...with Jack Bennett in a Film titled Pierrot in Turquoise is available from for purchase from the Scottish Film Archive, Glasgow. Excerpts can be seen on this YouTube page.
Pioneering On-line Music Publishing Company takes on Garrett Work
Fagus-Music.com have recently added Epithalamion I for Organ (op.203) to their catalogue. It will be available from their website soon.
New Work celebrating Burns Centenary
Michael recently completed settings of Galla Water in settings for Soprano & Piano, Mezzo Soprano & Piano and Flugelhorn & Piano.
Listen to excerpts :
Galla Water - Setting for Mezzo Soprano & Piano (Ishbel Kennedy Maltman, Michael Garrett)
Galla Water - Setting for Soprano & Piano (Coleen Nicoll, Michael Garrett)
Other new recordings available on the listen page include :
Epithalamion I for Organ - commissioned and performed live at St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, 2nd November 2008 by Elizabeth Day.
Symphony No.12 "Le Retour de Printemps" - commissioned and performed live at the Methodist Church, Nicholson Square, Edinburgh, 2nd November 2008 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra / Tim Paxton.
'Music from the heart, wide-ranging, a deep mind, painting wonderful colours'
Derek Watson: Master Musicians Series Author on Liszt and Bruckner. 18.03.06
'Garrett squeezes all kinds of possibilities out of his Mendelssohn arrangement without losing the essential lyricism of the piece. I found it invigorating to listen to - like an aural adventure, broadening the feelings. He seemed to get inside the music and expand it and bring the listener new insights and exhilaration - an architectural tour de force!'
From an article by Hayden McAllister (Author and Journalist) on Michael Garrett's arrangement of Mendelssohn's overture 'The Hebrides' for two pianos, commissioned by the New Kirkcudbright International Arts Festival, Scotland. August 2004. 11.12.04