Mike Klinger of the Synthesis MIDI Workshop, who runs in-person training courses from his facilities in Washington state in the Pacific north-west corner of the United States, is broadening his training offering this summer by running a 10-week online course in Sibelius 7 via the online learning provider, WizIQ. Mike told me: Both my Sibelius 7 […]
Philip Rothman of NYC Music Services is running another Sibelius training course at The Juilliard School in New York City on 20 July, and registration is now open. There will be two sessions: a three-hour session for beginners from 10am, and a further three-hour session for intermediate users from 2.30pm. The session for beginners will […]
In this guest post, Bruce Munson, explains some of the advanced selection techniques you can employ in Sibelius. Bruce is a composer, arranger, copyist and Sibelius trainer, based in the San Francisco bay area, and runs regular training sessions for beginners, intermediate and advanced users at various venues in California and around the US. For more details […]
Mark H. Nichols recently had cause to contact Avid’s Sibelius support staff to help get his wife’s copy of Sibelius back up and running after a system reinstallation. He had such an excellent experience that he felt moved to write about it on his blog. He says: This morning I tried to install a fresh […]
Alexa Weber Morales is a singer-songwriter from Oakland, CA whom I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting in person, but with whom I have conversed a great deal on Twitter (find her @AlexaMorales). Recently she got in touch to tell me about her experience of using Sibelius First, our entry-level music notation software […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tdjXbVVWfM[/youtube] With just 73 days to go until the opening ceremony of the London Olympic and Paralympic games, the anticipation around the UK, and indeed the world, is building. One of the key ways in which LOCOG, who are staging the games, are getting young people excited about the games is through the mascots for […]
John Powell is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand composers, his music having graced more than 50 feature films. British-born, John has called the United States his home for the past fifteen years, during which time he has scored many top films, in addition to collaborating with fellow celebrated composers Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams. He […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDOV5WE4OxM[/youtube] We’re very pleased to announce that a new version of Sibelius’s little brother, Sibelius First, is available from today, with some great new features never before seen in music notation software (including Sibelius 7!). Sibelius First is designed for home users, students, instrumental teachers, songwriters, choir masters – anybody who needs to quickly and easily […]
The New York-based experimental string quartet ETHEL (@ETHELCentral) are one of the most exciting chamber music groups performing today. Founded in 1998 by graduates of Juilliard and Eastman / SUNY Stony Brook, the group has built a reputation both as champions of contemporary and new music, but also music education through its Foundation for the Arts. […]
Warning: this post gets a bit nerdy about software windowing models. If that doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, try this instead. Likewise, if you’re a Mac user, you might find all this a bit parochial. Like all good modern applications, Sibelius 7 uses the Single Document Interface (SDI) model, which means that each […]