This past weekend at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, the winners of the 19th annual Music Merchandise Retailer Dealers’ Choice Awards were announced, and I’m delighted to report that Sibelius 7 won the Software Line of the Year award for 2011.
These awards were voted for by more than 650 retailers, so it’s especially gratifying to see that Sibelius 7 was chosen by the people who are out there selling software to musicians every day.
Versatile enough to meet the needs of beginning students as well as professional-level composers, this latest generation of Avid’s iconic music notation software scored a solid hit in 2011.
Avid products picked up a total of six awards over the course of the NAMM weekend, with Pro Tools, Pro Tools HD Native and VENUE all sharing in the honours. We’re thrilled that Sibelius 7 has been honoured with this award, and we’re looking forward to another year of delivering great products to our customers.
In March of last year, I posted about a competition being run by Abbey Road Studios in London to celebrate the historic studio’s 80th birthday. Eight winners were eventually chosen from more than 900 entries, and of course many of the entries were composed or prepared in Sibelius. One of the winners is an anthem called The Angel by composer Tina Andersson from Gothenburg, Sweden. Read on to find out more about Tina, and hear her winning entry in its entirety.
David Robertson conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Photo courtesy Chris Lee)
Every year the Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall’s music education and community programming arm, presents a Creative Learning Project as part of its program season. In just a few weeks, works by a trio of young composers—Gabriel Smallwood from Florence, South Carolina, Anthony Constantino from Tucson, Arizona and Thomas Reeves from New York City—will be performed live at Carnegie Hall on 5 February 2012, to be directed by David Robertson.
I caught up with Samantha Nemeth from Carnegie Hall to find out more about this project and how Sibelius has played a part in helping these young composers bring their music to the stage.
Today marks the start of the winter NAMM Show at the convention centre in Anaheim, California. Naturally, Avid is there with its usual impressive stand in Hall A, Booth 6700, which is found right inside the main doors to the hall. You can check out Sibelius 7 and Avid’s other music and audio solutions both on the main stage and by walking up to the various pods on the stand.
If you’re not in the music trade, or can’t be in California this week (like me!), you can still keep up with all of the happenings on and around the Avid booth by checking out the special NAMM Show page on the Avid web site. There won’t be any specific Sibelius-related announcements at the show – we prefer to wait until products are shipping, rather than, say, hyping stuff up for weeks on our Twitter feed, and then putting out a press release containing scant details of a new product, with no information about availability or pricing, and precious few details about its functionality. We do have some very cool and completely unique things in the pipeline for the year ahead, but we’ll keep them under wraps until they’re ready for you to get your hands on them.
If you’re planning to be at the NAMM Show, do stop by the Avid booth and say hello to the good people who will be working the show, braving crowds, noise and a lack of anywhere decent to sit down for the next four days along with you!
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This past weekend at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, the winners of the 19th annual Music Merchandise Retailer Dealers’ Choice Awards were announced, and I’m delighted to report that Sibelius 7 won the Software Line of the Year award for 2011.
