Sibelius 7 Sounds template available from The Write Score

February 22, 2012

Hugh Smith is the author of the Sibelius 7 Sounds User Guide (an updated version of which is available for download from the Sibelius web site) and he is also the developer of sound sets and template scores that are designed to help you take best advantage of all of the instruments in various sample libraries. [...]

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Sibelius training in Cape Town, South Africa this Saturday

February 21, 2012

Last September, I posted about a training session being held by Sibelius expert Engela Fullard in Cape Town, South Africa. This coming Saturday, 25 February, Engela is holding a further public training session on Sibelius 7. Here’s what she told me about these latest sessions: There will be two sessions, a two-and-a-half hour session for [...]

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Salonen’s award-winning Violin Concerto scored in Sibelius

February 20, 2012

Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the world’s most celebrated conductors, with long and successful associations with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London – where he is presently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor – and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also a celebrated composer, and recently his 2009 Violin Concerto has been selected as the winner [...]

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Come and see Sibelius at the MMEA Midwinter Clinic this Friday

February 15, 2012

The Minnesota Music Educators Association holds its Mid-Winter In-Service Clinic at the Minneapolis Convention Center in beautiful Minneapolis, MN from February 16 to February 18. A. Eric Heukeshoven (who has featured on this blog before) is running a session about Sibelius 7 and Avid Scorch for iPad (which you can download and use today – no need [...]

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Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials book now available

February 9, 2012

Sibelius 7 Music Notation Essentials is the first Avid-certified book to be written about Sibelius. Part of the Avid Learning Series published by Cengage Learning, this new 350-page book forms the basis of a new curriculum for learning Sibelius 7 through a series of projects that you can complete in the comfort of your own home, [...]

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Pat Metheny: “Now is the greatest possible time to be a musician–for Sibelius alone!”

February 6, 2012

The February 2012 issue of International Musician, the magazine of the American Federation of Musicians, features guitarist-composer Pat Metheny on its cover, and an interview in its pages. In the interview, Pat discusses growing up in Kansas, the formative influence of jazz on his music, and how Canadian luthier Linda Manzer, who has built many unique [...]

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Sibelius helps Scarsdale students score hits for elementary orchestra

January 30, 2012

The Scarsdale Daily ran a story over the weekend about a joint effort between Quaker Ridge Elementary School and Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York to provide the elementary students who play in the school’s orchestra with some exciting new arrangements of songs by Bruno Mars, Adele and OneRepublic. Andy Sherman, a junior at [...]

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Sibelius 7 scores Software Line of the Year award for 2011

January 26, 2012

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 [...]

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Tina Andersson scores Abbey Road Anthem Competition win with Sibelius

January 23, 2012

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 [...]

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Sibelius helps young composers’ works to the stage in Carnegie Hall

January 20, 2012

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 [...]

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