Sibelius to distribute Auralia and Musition Software - Items of Interest - Sibelius USA Inc. to distribute Rising Sofware's music education titles - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2003

Sibelius USA, Inc., announced that its parent company, Sibelius Software Ltd., has acquired the worldwide distribution of Australia-based Rising Software's leading educational titles Auralia and Musition.

Ben Finn, co-founder of Sibelius Software Ltd., said, "We are extremely excited to be distributing Auralia and Musition. With the addition of these high quality titles to the ones we acquired from MIDIWORKS last month, Sibelius is now providing students, teachers and professionals with complete solutions to music education. Sibelius is becoming the one-stop for the best educational software in the world."

Rising Software has a high reputation for developing and publishing educational music software for students and teachers. Schools, colleges and other educational institutions around the world already use its ear-training and theory-training programs daily to help provide quality education for their students.

Auralia is a comprehensive ear-training package available globally, covering intervals and scales, rhythm, chords, melody and pitch. Musition is a complete theory and musicianship package for students of all ages. Interactive, drill-based teaching makes learning music fundamentals fun and easy.

For more information contact Sibelius USA, Inc., at 1407 Oakland Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94596; (925) 280-0600, fax: (925) 280-0008; infoUSA@sibelius.com; www.sibelius.com.