MyScoreStore.com

No fewer than 60 composers from 20 countries have signed up to offer their work through MyScoreStore since its launch at the beginning of 2008. International awareness of MyScoreStore is growing rapidly, and the online platform has already attracted compositions for a variety of tastes and skill levels.

"The music being uploaded to our catalogue at the moment is mostly from the baroque, romantic, and contemporary classical genres", notes MyScoreStore founder Patrick Vergouwen. Piano, strings, and voice are the most offered instrumentations, although music for orchestra, brass band, small ensembles, and even niche instruments like the piccolo or the guitar-synthesizer can be found on the site as well.

With the goal of diversity in mind, Vergouwen aims to increase the number of works in thus-far underrepresented genres such as jazz, country and western, Latin, and children's music. MyScoreStore is also making an active effort to attract music from and for a truly worldwide clientele. At the moment, MyScoreStore has composers from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the USA, but Vergouwen hopes this list will soon be expanded.

"We place great importance on variety in our catalogue", comments Vergouwen. To that end, MyScoreStore has adopted a new approach to music publication. "Composers who wish to publish their work are often faced with the requirement that the work be of a minimum commercially potential. We, on the other hand, do not wish to act as a filter between composers and musicians. We are instead looking to offer our customers access to rare and original pieces and our composers the freedom to publish exactly what they want."