Sibelius

Composer Douglas CuomoIf you’ve watched Sex and the City or Homicide: Life On The Streets, you have heard the music of composer Doug Cuomo. Over the past twenty years, Doug has written some of the most distinctive music heard on television, and his career is now moving into a new and exci...

The cover for Pat Metheny's Orchestrion. Click the picture for a larger version.This is, I believe, a first. Nestling among the musical paraphernalia on the front cover of Pat Metheny’s new album Orchestrion is an unusual artefact, at once both at home there and also strangely out of ...

If you’re based in the UK and Glasgow is within travelling distance, you may be interested to know that Martin Thomson of LoNote Music is running a series of one-day, hands-on Sibelius training courses through the first half of 2010.Martin says:My training courses are aimed at users at all ...

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Garritan to bring you a special offer on the new version of the world’s favourite orchestral sound library this holiday season.Garritan Personal Orchestra 4.0 is the latest version of Garritan’s award-winning orchestral sound library, and Sibe...

We are delighted to announce that Sibelius 6 has been honoured by Electronic Musician magazine in its Editors’ Choice awards for 2010, in the field of music notation software. EM singled out Sibelius 6’s revolutionary Magnetic Layout automatic collision avoidance feature and its ReWir...

Silent film star Charley ChaseComposer Maurice Saylor of The Snark Ensemble got in touch to let us know that Sibelius is featured in a documentary called The Sounds of Silence, which is a bonus feature included in the four-disc set Becoming Charley Chase, a collection of movies from one of the ...

Today sees the release of the new version of Sibelius Student, the best-selling entry-level version of Sibelius for students in secondary education.Based on the multi award-winning Sibelius 6, the new Sibelius Student includes many improvements that will help young musicians develop their composi...

American composer William PerryNew York-based copyist and orchestrator Bob Nowak has worked with some of the biggest names in the music business in a career spanning decades. In recent years he has developed a strong partnership with composer William Perry, who is most famous for composing and ...