This past Friday night, the 2012 Bafta Video Game Awards were handed out in a glitzy event at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel in London, and I’m delighted to report that the score for LA Noire by Simon Hale and Andrew Hale was recognised in the category of Best Original Music. LA Noire has featured on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sibelius has been nominated in the Music category for German web site Softwareload.de’s Software of the Year 2010 awards. Until 30 September, the awards’ organisers are inviting users of all of the nominated products to vote for their favourites, and then the eventual winners will be picked by a jury of prominent figures from the […]
The nominations for the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards were announced yesterday, and among the nominations for Best Classical Album is the first album of chamber music from Cuban American composer, Yalil Guerra, entitled Old Havana. Yalil has been featured on the blog before, so I got in touch with him to ask him about the […]
Last night’s Academy Awards ceremony honoured composer Michael Giacchino with the award for Best Original Score for his score for Disney/Pixar’s Up. The conductor’s score and parts were all prepared using Sibelius by the expert team of copyists led by Booker White in the music office at Disney Studios in Burbank, California, and Michael himself […]
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 ReWire support for synchronisation with DAWs as being particularly significant additions. For […]
We are delighted to announce that Sibelius 6 has been honoured by Tech & Learning magazine in their annual Awards of Excellence for 2009. The Awards of Excellence recognise the best education technology products of the year, and Sibelius 6 has won in the category of Best Upgraded Products. The complete list of winners is […]
Composer and Sibelius and Pro Tools user Howard Goodall recently added an Emmy to his long list of accolades when his soundtrack for the joint BBC-HBO production Into The Storm picked up the award for Music Composition for a Mini series, Movie, or Special (Dramatic Score). The film, which first aired in the US at […]
Last night at the Classical Brits awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sibelius user Howard Goodall won the award for Composer of the Year 2009 for his “requiem for the living,” Eternal Light. Commissioned by Mark Stephenson on behalf of London Musici to celebrate the orchestra’s 20th anniversary, Eternal Light: A Requiem is […]