Michelle Lord is the winner of the 2022 Composing Competition. Lord wowed the judges with. Full of unexpected twists and turns, the two-page composition will suit intermediate-level pianists with good sense of imagination. Lord says it took a while to get the piece in good shape: ‘I didn’t sit and compose it in one go. I kept going back until I was happy with it. I had two endings and I couldn’t decide which to do. I went with a Chopin left-hand style towards the end, because I felt that it displayed more of an understanding between different styles. And I used a tremolo in the last bar because I wanted a really dramatic ending!’
