Zinfonia News

Fennica Gehrman is the leading publisher of classical and contemporary music in Finland and the owner of the valuable Finnish musical treasure consisting of ca 12000 titles previously owned by Edition Fazer and Warner/Chappell Music Finland.

They have established partnerships with such leading composers as Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kalevi Aho, Kimmo Hakola, Mikko Heiniö and Olli Kortekangas, and their catalogue also includes gems by Jean Sibelius, Uuno Klami and others. Apart from orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music they also publish pedagogical materials, e.g. books for the famous Colourstrings method.

Click here to view works by Fennica Gehrman in Zinfonia

Click here to go to the Fennica Gehrman Website

PWM Edition is the largest musical publishing house in Poland. For sixty years, it has played a crucial role in Polish musical life as a dynamic centre of musical culture development.

The PWM Edition Hire Catalogue represents the finest collections of Polish music, including the works of 20th century Polish composers such as Lutosławski, Górecki and Kilar. PWM published the first complete edition of Chopin and Moniuszko works, most of compositions of Szymanowski and Karłowicz, the editions of Polish old music (Zieleński) and scores of contemporary Polish composers as well as Musica Viva - the anthology including the masterpieces of Polish and world music. Currently PWM is cooperating with such composers as Wojciech Kilar, Zygmunt Krauze, Aleksander Lasoń, Eugeniusz Knapik, Paweł Mykietyn, Marta Ptaszyńska, Agata Zubel and Aleksander Nowak.

The Publisher's headquarters is located in Cracow, and the Library of Orchestral Materials - in Warsaw.

Click here to view works by PWM Edition in Zinfonia

Click here to go to the PWM Edition Website

Please note that there may be disruptions to Zinfonia’s services every Sunday between the hours of 03:00 and 05:00 GMT to allow us to perform system maintenance.

To view the dates and times of the next scheduled maintenance window in your time zone, please click here

We are very pleased to announce that Zinfonia.com is now ready to accept hire/rental orders for more than 40,000 titles from some of the world’s most distinguished publishing houses including: Boosey & Hawkes, Bote & Bock, Peters, Ricordi, Durand, Eschig, Salabert, AMP, Wilhelm Hansen, Chester Music and Novello.

Distribution networks continue to be established in some countries and so if your request is not sent directly to the local agent, request will be forwarded on by the original publisher. New composers, titles and publishers are being added daily, so please check back often or let us know if a work you seek is not currently listed.

Over the next few months we will be creating tutorials to help you get the most from Zinfonia. Your feedback is welcome and you can click here to let us know how we are doing.

We are working hard to get everything ready to start receiving your orders by July 1st, 2011.

This includes the ongoing testing of our service, complete title listings from our publishing partners, all available translations and the configuration of the distribution networks.

You are free to register, search and even place orders through Zinfonia now and you can be assured your requests will be forwarded to the publisher or distributor.

If you experience any problems or have a suggestion to improve the service, please click here to contact us.

Peter Grimshaw will be making a brief presentation about Zinfonia to delegates of the 2011 29th Annual Conference of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association at 2.30pm May 15th in the Henry Wood Hall, London United Kingdom.

Zinfonia was launched today at the Frankfurt Musikmesse by Peter Grimshaw of BTM Innovation and his partners from Boosey & Hawkes, Edition Peters Group, The Music Sales Group and Universal Music Publishing Classical.

At launch time some 40,000 titles and 4,000 composers were available from the 40 publishers represented on the system.

Although Zinfonia is fully operational, it will be a few more months before the German, French and Italian translations are complete and all of catalogues represented by Zinfonia are ready.

We expect to have everything finalised by the end of May by which time the service will be promoted internationally.

Zinfonia will be launched on Thursday, April 7 at the Frankfurt MusikMesse. The launch will be followed by a more technical session explaining in detail how the Zinfonia system works. If you are interested in attending, please contact Peter Grimshaw at admin@zinfonia.com for more information.

The Zinfonia website is currently being under construction. For this reason we apologise if selections are unavailable or do not work. Keep an eye on the news section for more information about the launch in 2011.

The Zinfonia system recently moved its resources into the “Cloud” to take advantage of all that this new technological concept has to offer. Cloud Computing promises many advantages to all of Zinfonia’s users including a more efficient service with high availability even under peak loads.

Peter Grimshaw from BTM Innovation will be attending the Frankfurt Musikmessse and available for meetings to discuss Zinfonia on Thursday March 25th and Friday March 26th. A meeting of existing stakeholders is also scheduled to occur during the fair.

Please contact me at info@zinfonia.com to arrange an appointment.

A meeting at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2009 hosted by Peter Grimshaw of BTM Innovation with representatives from some of the leading publishers of classical music agreed to collaborate on a new enterprise called Zinfonia. The main goal of the Zinfonia program is to create a website that combines the catalogues of all member publishers into a single searchable online catalogue. Not only will Zinfonia provide a valuable resource for classical music research, but it aims also to simplify the process of hiring or buying performance material by directing requests to the appropriate agent or website based on the country of origin.

Zinfonia is planned to be launched in 2010.