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Music Composition and Media Scoring at SFA Do you want to be a composer? Have you ever thought of working in the film and media industry? Join us at The Stephen F. Austin State University School of M...

Applications are now being accepted! $20,000 per year award for each member, plus additional funding provided to the group for competitions, touring, and professional development. https://www.sfasu.edu/music/academics/graduate-string-quartet

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SFA Wind Ensemble to premiere Composing in the Wilderness program pieces « Everything Nac Six composers who drew inspiration from Lake Clark National Park’s serene and wild setting, pictured here, during the 2023 Composing in the Wilderness program will have their works premiered Oct. 15 at the Stephen F. Austin State University Wind Ensemble’s first performance of the 2024-25 school...

A reminder for those who want to help support the wonderful teaching going on here in the Micky Elliot College of Fine Arts at SFA. The campaign ends September 18th!

Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts - Stephen F. Austin State University Giving Day

Also very encouraging on-ramp for Finale users from MuseScore!

MuseScore Studio is dedicated to supporting Finale users MuseScore Studio: A New Alternative to Finale Historically, MuseScore Studio was developed as an alternative to Finale, designed to be simpler and easier to…

Thanks, Daniel Spreadbury for this great tribute to the impact of Finale and for helping those who are taking the path forward in Dorico.

After sunset: your path from Finale to Dorico – Dorico Steinberg and MakeMusic have today announced a strategic partnership to provide a pathway for users of Finale to make the transition to Dorico Pro, following MakeMusic’s decision to sunset Finale. To read the official announcement from MakeMusic, click here. How we got here We should first take a ...

After reposting the astonishing news this morning, I've had a heavy first day of teaching, so I've only been able to glance at the many discussions briefly. I share everyone else's surprise, and I also have decades of my older pieces that I'll have to start converting now. I feel your pain and share it.

Having been an early adopter of Dorico, I will only encourage everyone that this is a fantastic piece of software. The transition is not easy, but that is because Dorico's way of approaching music is somewhat different from Finale/Sibelius. But once I made the transition (a matter of a few weeks of frustration), I have been a full convert ever since. I won't enumerate the reasons here, but I say that only to encourage everyone that the transition is worth the pain.

I vividly remember how transformative my first exposure to Finale was in the late 80s, and my creative development over the following decades was entirely within that program. I feel a deep debt of gratitude and much sadness at its departure.