CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF MINNESOTA™

Making a Musical Difference

Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota, Inc.

Music Copying-Engraving/Arranging

www.obomn.com/copying

 

Music copying-engraving/arranging services suspended. This is necessary so that I can focus on Donna's, my wife, recovery/rehabilitation from a stroke and to get things back on track for the future. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Don Werdick  

Have your musical composition or ideas transformed into great looking sheet music. Engraving your music will allow easier readability for players and performers, more professional looking music, and correctly notated rhythmic and harmonic elements on the page.  It also allows you to share your music in a medium that other musicians and composers can use and understand.

Music preparation and copyist services include:

·      Engrave and format from handwritten or printed manuscript scores/parts, edit scores, transcribe musical parts from scores (manuscript, PDF file, Finale or Sibelius file and MIDI file formats accepted)

·       Creating parts for an already prepared score

·       Transposing music to a different key

·       Arranging or transcribing music for different instrumentation

·       Editing already prepared scores and/or rescoring and part preparation

·       Touch-up orchestral scores, parts and solo instrument sheet music

·       Copying and proofreading parts against the score

Copying/Engraving –  the art of putting written sheet music into a digital format using computer notation software. Specialty: Sibelius® & Finale®, the most powerful and popular professional notation-software programs on the market today. Genre focus: music for chamber groups, woodwind and string ensembles – Renaissance, baroque and classical era.

Arranging – sometimes a more effective way to communicate a musical composition or idea is by arranging it for a different type of ensemble or group of instruments. A solo piece can be quite impressive when played by itself, but if arranged for a woodwind or string quartet, it could develop a broader scope with a greater range of emotional overtones. It might start to move and flow in new ways just because of the way the instruments are designed.

Rates: Standard rate of $30/hour or .30 per measure of music, whichever is less. This includes work done inputting, transcribing, editing, transposing, arranging and proofing. All major credit cards accepted through PayPal®, 50% billed when project starts and balance after finished product accepted.

If you have a piece of music that you would like services for copying/engraving, or arranging for a different type of instrumentation, please contact me via email at oboe@cpinternet.com to see how I can help you realize that desire. Services are both affordable, versatile and work is not finalized until you are satisfied. Please provide any applicable information, direction or instruction you would like me to know about before working on the project.

Don Werdick background: Freelance professional Oboe, Oboe d’amore & English horn artist. He owns and operates the international double reed cane processing business Supérieure Cane Processing™, is an oboe Instructor, provides music copying/engraving and arranging services, and is a member of the American Federation of Musicians and the International Double Reed Society. He studied with Rhadames Angelucci, Principal Oboe, Minnesota Orchestra; Ita Loe-Vellek, Chicago Symphony; Ruben Haugen, McPhail School of Music; and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Recent performances as principal oboe include the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, Mesabi Orchestra, Chamber Ensemble of Minnesota and the Northern Lights Festival Orchestra. Prior to moving to northeastern Minnesota he performed in the Twin Cities with the Minnetonka Symphony, Bloomington Symphony and the Metropolitan Wind Ensemble. His signature pieces include Marcello’s Concerto in C minor for Oboe and Strings; Haydn’s Concerto in C for Oboe and Orchestra; Handel’s Concerto in G minor for Oboe and Strings and Bach’s Concerto in A for Oboe d’amore and Strings. He is a retired financial institution CEO and past U.S. Army Band Director & Commissioned officer.