Story-driven works with themes of emotions, strength, and dreams, are featured in this year’s String Orchestra Music 2024-2025 new release from Excelcia Music Publishing. Filled with pieces from many popular composers as well as exciting new voices, the new works are fun and engaging, making them excellent teaching pieces as well. Orchestra Directors will find sophisticated works for the earliest to the highest grade levels. The new release offers a piece for every concert, be it for Back-to-school, Holiday, Festival, and more. As it has done in prior years, the publisher’s 2024-2025 release includes live professional recordings and ScoreVideos of each piece, as well as unique Composer Insights videos, all of which can be used for easy review by directors as well as for tools with students. Professional recordings of the new music are streaming on all major platforms and on the publisher’s website.
“The works in our string catalog this year are an introspective look into the imagination and passion of our composers,” says Tyler Arcari, Director of Music Production and Editing. “Music can uncover so much of ourselves and our world, and our composers this season have certainly leaned into the idea of unlocking the strengths that reside within all of us.”
The publisher’s 2024-2025 String Orchestra release includes new pieces from composers and arrangers Alan Lee Silva, Sean O’Loughlin, Yukiko Nishimura, Caryn Wiegand Neidhold, Laura Estes, Larry Clark, and Tyler Arcari. The publisher welcomes composers David Samuel, Christina Huss, and Jeffery Hart to its orchestra catalog this year.
Each score, and its accompanying parts, are meticulously edited and beautifully set for ease of reading and include unique features to increase accessibility and help facilitate efficient rehearsals. Optional bowings have been carefully selected, and optional percussion parts have been added to certain pieces to provide an additional layer to the orchestra’s sound. Published in Excelcia Music Publishing’s signature color-coded series, the string orchestra music follows the strict and consistent six-part grading system: Prelude (grade .5), Da Capo (grade 1), Harmony (grade 1.5), Intermezzo (grade 2 to 2.5), Rhapsody (grade 3 to 3.5) and Maestro (grade 4 and up).
Excelcia Music Publishing’s 2024-2025 String Orchestra music is available from music retailers and from the publisher.
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