Discovering Sibelius was eye-opening for Béla Fleck, who used the notation software for his concerto for banjo and orchestra.
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Salonen’s award-winning Violin Concerto scored in Sibelius
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 […]
Béla Fleck says: “Sibelius is my new best friend!”
Béla Fleck, world-renowned banjo player, Grammy winner and composer, is using Sibelius software to create his Concerto For Banjo, a work commissioned by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (also a 2011 Grammy winner!). The piece will premiere this September in Nashville with acclaimed conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, and will later be featured with several major orchestras as […]
Bach harpsichord concerto revived with a little help from PhotoScore and Sibelius
Sibelius user Wheat Williams got in touch with me to tell me about an interesting and worthwhile project that he worked on through last Autumn, producing a new edition of Bach’s Triple Harpsichord Concerto in C (BWV 1064) for the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra to perform. Working from a blurry PDF of a late 19th century […]