Sibelius Software Ltd establishes
Sibelius Australia

Sibelius Software Ltd acquires Australian distributor and establishes Sibelius Australia

London - 13 June 2005 - Sibelius Software Limited today announced the acquisition of its distribution team in Australia – and the formation of Sibelius Australia.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Sibelius Software Ltd, Sibelius Australia has been created through the acquisition of certain assets of Intelliware, Australia and through the bringing together of the entire Intelliware management team and staff around the expanding range of Sibelius music software applications and products as well as key third party products.

The business, which will begin trading formally on July 1st 2005, will be based in Adelaide, S. Australia with specialist staff in key locations throughout Australia. Sibelius Australia will be marketing and distributing all of the Sibelius range including the world's best-selling notation software Sibelius, the Sibelius Education Suite and G7 the guitarists' tool of choice.

Jeremy Silver, CEO Sibelius Software Ltd says, “Australia has always been a key market for Sibelius Software Ltd with the Sibelius brand and products having grown steadily and having achieved huge popularity and sales amongst professionals, educators and students. The trends in music education in the Australian education sector are often more advanced than in other markets and the benefits this brings to the global business in terms of market knowledge and product acceptability are immense.”

“We are thrilled to be in a position to have a dedicated and talented team in place to focus on Sibelius business and to be able to invest considerably more resources on dealer support and marketing as we move even further along the road of becoming the leading source of music education applications and solutions.”

Sibelius Australia will be led by; Managing Director, John Bienvenue, previously MD of Intelliware Pty Ltd who have been the distributor of Sibelius products in Australia for almost 10 years.

He comments: “This is a dream ticket for all of us at the newly formed company, to be able to be part of the team responsible for the world's most imaginative and successful music technology and to continue to forge ahead with our mission to bring the best products and services to Australian educators and professionals. We will continue building relationships with the education sector whilst providing creative solutions for music teaching and learning and making full use of our strong dealer network to bring the whole range of Sibelius' products to even more professionals, students, teachers, schools and institutions across Australia .”

Glenn Dodson, Managing Director of Roland Corporation, Australia and co-director of Intelliware said:

“The music industry in Australia is well familiar with the profile and success of Sibelius in Australia and in going forward, we wish Sibelius Australia managing director John Bienvenue and all the Adelaide team, the very best success in their exciting new venture.”

Editor's Note

Sibelius is the number one music notation software in Australia and is used extensively in high schools, universities and conservatoire and by many leading music publishers. Over 50 % of high schools use Sibelius for teaching composition, arranging and theory. Some of the many notable individuals who regularly use and endorse the product are James Morrison, internationally renowned jazz and classical trumpeter, Richard Tognetti, Musical Director of the award winning Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian composer Laurie Whiffin.

Roland Corporation, Australia are the majority shareholders of Intelliware from whom Sibelius Software acquired its assets. Intelliware Australia will continue to operate as an importer and distributor of music technology products.

Web site: www.sibelius.com - Sibelius Australia web site: www.sibelius.com.a