Karen Tanaka: Children of Light
Ian Buckle Piano

Karen Tanaka’s Children of Light is a set of twenty-five piano pieces composed for children to perform. Its theme is animals in danger – because of climate change, persecution by poaching or other man-made changes to their habitat. These beguiling pieces appeared on various exam board syllabuses over the years and continue to do so (ABRSM Grade 6). Each animal depicted appeared on the 1996 IUCN Red List of threatened species.