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London, UK, 15 August 2007 – Sibelius Software has been used by John Powell’s lead orchestrator, John Ashton Thomas, on the global blockbuster The Bourne Ultimatum – follow-up to The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy – and for many other hit movies scored by the legendary film composer.
In addition to The Bourne Ultimatum, John’s team used Sibelius to orchestrate stirring soundtracks for a whole host of successful films, including Happy Feet, X-Men: The Last Stand, United 93, Robots, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Italian Job, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Paycheck, Agent Cody Banks and Rat Race.
Sibelius was also used at a recent performance of works by John Powell by the BBC Concert Orchestra for the BBC Proms 2007 season. The program was used to re-orchestrate an excerpt from the score to Aardman Animation’s hit film Chicken Run.
“Sibelius is a very important part of the team that gets the music I write in front of the musicians,” says John Powell. “I have always found Sibelius to be very straightforward and highly musical,” adds lead orchestrator John Ashton Thomas. “It performs many of the tasks that could possibly become tedious with great speed!”
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In addition to films scored by John Powell, Sibelius has been used on a whole raft of Hollywood blockbusters including Casino Royale, The Last King of Scotland, Hot Fuzz, Shrek the Third, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Lord of the Rings, Love Actually and Independence Day. Films scored using Sibelius picked up 11 awards in last year’s Oscars and Baftas.
To help promote film scoring in UK schools, the company recently organized a film composition competition for secondary school students across the UK. Over 500 students registered and entries were judged by film score experts Lord Puttnam, David Arnold (Casino Royale), Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek), Michael Price (Music Editor on Love Actually) and Patrick Doyle (Harry Potter). Winners were awarded £500, Sibelius 5, and a day in Abbey Road studios to watch a score recording with Michael Price. Sibelius intends to repeat the competition on an annual basis.
To watch a video about the Sibelius National Young Film Composer Competition, visit www.sibelius.com/filmcompetition
For more information on TV and Film music created with Sibelius, visit www.sibelius.com/genres/tv
About Sibelius
- Sibelius is the world’s market leader in music notation software.
- Sibelius was founded in 1993 to sell music notation software for initially the Acorn computer and was released for Windows and Mac in 1998/99.
- Since then the Sibelius Group has developed 20 additional music products for the professional, educational and home user, ranging from Internet publishing to guitar software.
- Sibelius has customers in over 100 countries.
- Sibelius is used in 60% of schools in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
- Sibelius is endorsed by the Royal Academy of Music and is used by all the major music academies and colleges: the Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Juilliard School, Berklee School of Music, the Sibelius Academy in Finland, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
- The world’s leading music publishers including Music Sales, Hal Leonard and Yamaha use Sibelius.
- In 2005, Sibelius was awarded a prestigious Queen’s Award for Innovation.
- Sibelius was recently acquired by Avid Technology Inc the worldwide leaders in digital media editing and creation solutions. Sibelius is part of of Avid’s Audio division which also includes Digidesign, producers of Pro Tools, and M-Audio.
Sibelius is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in San Francisco, Adelaide and Tokyo.
15 August 2007
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