Posts Tagged "Recording Session"

I am currently working on a new very exciting concert event. Soul/pop singer SEVEN will join forces with the 21st Century Orchestra and perform a show together presenting highlights of his songs. Together with Robert Emery and Moritz Schneider, I’m working on the project, writing orchestrations for a 90min show by a 60+ member orchestra and a band. The concert will be played on September 20th and 21st already so it’s quite a tight time frame to write all this music, which is great fun and a real blast to put into new symphonic shapes. Tickets for the shows are available...

If you are a frequent user of Last.fm you might be delighted to hear that I just did a complete update of my profile there and put up a lot of audio files there. Click HERE to go to my Last.fm page.

After I get a lot of emails by people asking me whether I can send them some of my music as score sheets for studying purposes, I decided to put up a little section on my homepage which allows you to read through full orchestral score sheets and listen to the orchestral recordings of these cues. I will add more score sheets from time to time, make sure to become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter to be informed about the latest additions. You can access the new section by navigating to Tutorials-Score Sheets in the navigation menu or by clicking...

After quite a few months went by since the recording of my Violin Concerto for Anna Karkowska and the London Symphony Orchestra in July 2010, finally a CD has been released which contains the concerto together with selections from Paganini, Wienawski and Sarasate. The 2 CD set “Virtuosity” has been released by the lable Starlight Classics and can be ordered on their site: http://www.starlightclassics.com/. You can get more information about the CD as well as listen to some audio snippets on the site. The CD comes together with a nice paper digipak including a booklet with a few notes on the recording as well as the creation process of my concerto. However, as happy as I am about the release of this CD, I want to clearly express that I do not endorse...

Welcome to the Daily Film Scoring Bits Archive of 2010. If you want to read even more tips, tricks and hints, head over to the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS and the DAILY FILM SCORING BITS ARCHIVE 2011! Follow me on Twitter or Facebook to receive the most recent tips 12/31/10: One of the most common weaknesses of compositions by inexpierenced composers is the harmonic unclarity. This means that cruicial chord tones are left out over the accompanying structures, like missing the very important third of the chord on some occasions while having them in on others. This creates a very inhomogenous overall sound as the chords with missing chord tones will not create much of sonority whghile the complete ones will. It is important to have the chord fully...