In this recording of our webinar (original event 8 March 2024), we talked about the options available to members for sourcing sheet music.
Music groups that use sheet music have limited budgets, yet like to play and sing a varied repertoire. Sourcing sheet music is a complicated juggling act between their artistic ambitions and their available budget, between the need to keep their participants interested and stretched and serving their audiences. In this event, we covered the entire ecosystem of sheet music suppliers, from free, to public, to online suppliers, to more traditional music publishers.
We heard from:
- Making Music about their music bank service
- Lee Noon, who works for Leeds Libraries and is a Chair at IAML (International Association of Music Libraries)
- Stephen Chartres about the council’s investment in an online booking system for the Nottingham Performing Arts Library and collaborating on a regional basis, as well as the challenges facing local authorities
- Mark Welling, Chair of NewSPAL
- Vicky Smith, Managing Director at PMLL, about their innovative Choir Licence
- Oliver Winstone, Manager at Hal Leonard
- Dan Goren, Director at Composers Edition
- Piers McLeish, CEO & Co-Founder of ChoirCommunity
- Emma Hakimi, Sales manager at Newzik
- Emory Southwick, Music Sales & Catalogue Coordinator at Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) about their catalogue of new music, available for hire and purchase
- David Greenhalgh, Trustee at The Light Music Society, about their extensive library of light orchestral and dance band music.
The views represented by the speakers in this webinar are their own, and do not represent the views of Making Music.
Useful links:
- Download the presentation slides from this event
- Encore21 - union catalogue of choral and orchestral performance sets held by libraries in Great Britain; search the database without needing to login
- ArrangeMe - owned and operated by Hal Leonard, this global platform enables songwriters, composers, and arrangers to sell their arrangements of popular songs, public domain works, and original compositions through the world's most-popular sheet music retailers
If you have any questions about this event topic, please contact info@makingmusic.org.uk
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