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Hildur Guðnadóttir Wins At Golden Globes
6th January 2020
Hildur Guðnadóttir has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for her haunting soundtrack to Joker. Nominated alongside Randy Newman, Alexandre Desplat, Thomas Newman and Daniel Pemberton, Guðnadóttir's win makes her the...
Embassy Music Publishing signs publishing agreement with Australian pop duo The Beamish Brothers
20th August 2019
Embassy Music Publishing is excited to announce a worldwide* publishing agreement with rising Australian pop duo The Beamish Brothers, for their debut EP ‘Brutalism’. Ben and Jeremy Beamish, the multi-talented siblings who hail from...
2019 TIFF Premieres Announced
8th August 2019
The lineup of premieres for this year's Toronto International Film Festival has been announced and among the many high-profile features are a number of projects for which Music Sales composers have composed original scores. Hildur...
Ludovico Einaudi Commits Music Publishing Future To Music Sales Group
8th August 2019
The Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has agreed a new, exclusive long-term publishing contract with Chester Music Limited, part of The Music Sales Group of Companies. Ludovico Einaudi comments: 'Music Sales is like a big...
MSC Catalog Acquisition: Curtis Knight feat. Jimi Hendrix / Harts Honours Hendrix
4th July 2019
MSC Catalog Acquisition - Curtis Knight feat. Jimi HendrixHarlem soul singer Curtis Knight met Jimi Hendrix at the Americana hotel in 1965 and their musical collaborating began. Several early recording sessions yielded such songs as “How...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Returns To Australia
15th January 2019
After sell-out seasons in 2017, Christopher Wheeldon’s madcap Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is coming to Brisbane this February 2019. Follow Alice down the rabbit hole into a world of colour, fun, and fantasy in this dazzling...
Zeal & Ardor Announce Australia and New Zealand Tour
14th January 2019
Avant-garde metal group Zeal & Ardor have announced their inaugural Australian and New Zealand tour. The one-time experiment of Swedish-American mastermind Manuel Gagneux, the group combines African American spirituals and black metal to...
G. Schirmer Acquires Worldwide Publishing Rights To Florence Price's Catalogue
29th November 2018
NEW YORK, NY November 15th, 2018 – G. Schirmer, Inc., part of The Music Sales Group, announces it has acquired the worldwide publishing rights to classical composer Florence Price's catalog.Florence Price was one of the first...
Tan Dun Australian Premiere of 'Buddha Passion' With Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
29th November 2018
'The composer follows a highly individual path but the work’s emotional character serves as a modern-day transformation of one of Western music’s more impressive structures.' - The Sydney Morning Herald 'Flawlessly combining the classic...
Hauschka Releases New Single, 'Curious', From Upcoming Album
25th October 2018
Hauschka has released the first single, 'Curious', from their forthcoming new album, A Different Forest. The new album, which will be released by Sony Classical in February 2019, was first recorded with unprepared piano. The new pieces are...
Harts New Single 'Shake Ya Pants' Out Now!
26th September 2018
Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer, Harts aka Darren Harts, has released a brand new track, 'Shake Ya Pants' ahead of his National tour and imminent album release. “Shake Ya Pants is a light-hearted and...
Tan Dun Australian Premiere Of 'Buddha Passion' With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
26th September 2018
Tan Dun, world-renowned artist and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, has made an indelible mark on the world's music scene with a creative repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and...
Sydney Dance Company Perform 'Frame Of Mind' with Australian String Quartet
13th September 2018
Sydney Dance Company's award-winning production 'Frame Of Mind' will return to Sydney theatres this October, following extensive international performances. Choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, this piece is set to three emotionally charged...
The Australian Ballet Premiere Alice Topp's 'Aurum'
13th September 2018
The Australian Ballet premiered 'Aurum', a brand-new work by Alice Topp, as part of their triple bill programme 'Verve' to stunned crowds. Set to three works by Ludovico Einaudi - 'Run', 'Underwood' and 'Choros' - the premiere of 'Aurum'...
Harts new single, 'Wishfulness', out now!
27th August 2018
Harts is the nom de plume of Indian-born, Australian-based musician, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer Darren Hart, whose singular blend of funk, jazz, blues, psychedelic rock, and indie electronic has...
The Long Forgotten Dream
31st July 2018
William Barton's World Premiere of The Long Forgotten Dream Leading didgeridoo player and Music Sales composer William Barton has been commissioned to compose the score for Sydney Theatre Company's latest production, "The Long Forgotten...
Harts Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal with Embassy Music Publishing
27th June 2018
Embassy Music Publishing is excited to announce the signing of Australian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, Harts, to an exclusive Worldwide publishing deal. The talented musician and his eclectic music catalogue will be a...
Snow White
4th June 2018
Featuring costumes by legendary haute couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier, lavish sets by Thierry Leproust and music by Gustav Mahler, this wickedly dark retelling of the classic tale is guaranteed to leave you spellbound.Inspired by the...
Zeal & Ardor Return With 'Gravedigger's Chant'
3rd April 2018
Creative firebrand Manuel Gagneux has returned with a brand new Zeal & Ardor single. ‘Gravedigger's Chant’ was released on March 30th and serves as an omen of what's to come from his forthcoming second Zeal & Ardor album, Stranger Fruit...
Memorial at Adelaide Festival
15th February 2018
“The Iliad is an important poem to me because I believe the soldiers it mentions were real people. It has always, I think, been read as an heroic epic rather than a lament. It would be wonderful if we could bring out this other, quieter...