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Gabriel Yared To Receive Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award
10th May 2019
French-Lebanese film composer Gabriel Yared will be awarded the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award at the Hollywood in Vienna Gala on 19 October. This award is given by the city of Vienna and past recipients include Hans Zimmer...
Music Sales At The 2019 BBC Proms
30th April 2019
The programme for the BBC Proms 2019 was announced on April 17 and numerous works by Music Sales composers will be performed in the festival. Running from July 19 to September 14, the BBC Proms feature a wide range of works from a long...
Anne Nikitin's Score For American Animals Nominated For Ivor Novello Award
29th April 2019
Anne Nikitin's score for the 2018 film American Animals has been nominated for best original score in the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards. The Bart Layton-directed film told the story of a group of friends who conspired to steal the rarest and...
Arrivals & Departures Available Now
12th April 2019
The Leisure Society's fifth album, Arrivals & Departures, is available now. The album comes almost exactly 10 years after their debut single and covers a very broad range of themes across the personal and the political. Towards the...
Atomos Coming To BBC Four
5th April 2019
Wayne McGregor production Atomos, scored by A Winged Victory For The Sullen, will be shown on BBC Four on April 7th. Taking creative points of departure from atomised film, music and biometric data, McGregor’s choreography is woven into an...
Bryce Dessner's El Chan Released
5th April 2019
Katia and Marielle Labeque present their new album dedicated entirely to American composer Bryce Dessner, founder and guitarist of the rock band The National. El Chan features debut recordings of three works: 'Concerto For Two Pianos'...
Anne Nikitin Scores The Trial of Ratko Mladic
3rd April 2019
Anne Nikitin has scored the The Trial of Ratko Mladic, a feature documentary produced by Sandpaper Films and broadcast on BBC Four as part of their Storyville strand. Capturing the final, momentous act in the Bosnian war, the film tells an...
Music Sales Signs Anna Aaron
3rd April 2019
Music Sales is proud to announce the signing of the Swiss artist and songwriter Anna Aaron. Her new album Pallas Dreams was released on 25 January through Radicalis Music. After earlier experimentations with acoustic folk and rock as well...
Volker Bertelmann Nominated For BAFTA TV Awards 2019
28th March 2019
The BAFTA TV nominations for 2019 have been announced, including an Original Music nomination for Volker Bertelmann’s score for the Sky Atlantic / Showtime series Patrick Melrose. In other categories, Casualty – scored by Justine Barker ...
Two Year Vacation Signs To Music Sales
27th March 2019
Music Sales are thrilled to announce our latest signing: the Swedish band Two Year Vacation. Their unique blend of disco and indie-pop generates a mixture of supremely danceable and feel-good vibes. The band will be have released their new...
For Emma Released By Craig Armstrong
15th March 2019
Craig Armstrong has released a 4-track EP based on his track 'For Emma' which originally appeared on his 2017 album Sun On You. In addition to the original work, the EP includes three new versions of the composition - a beautiful vocal...
Vivan & Ketan Bhatti Sign To Music Sales
12th March 2019
German composer and producer duo, Vivan & Ketan Bhatti have signed a publishing deal with Music Sales. The pair have built a broad following through their varied cross-genre work including music for film, stage music, dance...
Joe Stilgoe Signs To Music Sales
12th March 2019
The songwriter, singer and pianist Joe Stilgoe has signed an agreement for his future writing with The Music Sales Group of Companies. The deal also includes Stilgoe's music to Jessica Swale's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle...
Neil Cowley & Ben Lukas Boysen Release Grains & Motes
1st March 2019
Neil Cowley has released a collaborative EP with the Erased Tapes signed composer, producer and sound designer Ben Lukas Boysen. The Grains & Motes EP features four tracks recorded at Ben’s Berlin studio in the summer of 2018. With this...
New Music From Ludovico Einaudi
1st March 2019
‘Seven Days Walking’: seven bodies of music to be released over seven consecutive months. The first, ‘Seven Days Walking: Day One’, which interweaves piano and strings in his unmistakable style, is Einaudi’s 14th studio album and will be...
Dilili a Paris Wins At The César Awards
27th February 2019
Michel Ocelot's latest project Dilili a Paris, scored by Gabriel Yared, has been awarded Animated Film at the 2019 César Awards. The film tells the story of Kanak Dilili, who investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls...
Dirk Maassen Signs To Music Sales
22nd February 2019
German composer Dirk Maassen has signed to Music Sales. In the 1980s he was member of several bands and projects and started some experimental cross genre productions experimenting with different styles. In the 1990s Dirk toured with his...
Dylan Henner Releases Debut EP
22nd February 2019
Newcomer Dylan Henner, who describes his work as ‘bliss-out ambient’, releases his debut EP A Reason For Living through Phantom Limb on 22 February. The album was largely formed during Henner’s travels across India, the Middle East...
The Piano - Live in concert at the Barbican
21st February 2019
On Tuesday February 26 the world premiere of a special screening of the 1993 Academy-Award-winning Jane Campion film The Piano will be presented live to the renowned score by Michael Nyman by members of the London Contemporary Orchestra...
Queen Of Hearts Wins Sundance Audience Award
8th February 2019
A new Danish feature film premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The film features numerous tracks from the Music Sales and Storyville catalogues. The film, titled Dronningen (English title: Queen Of Hearts) was directed by...