I can help with...
🎺 Full Orchestration Services for Film, TV and Stage Scores
From your sketches or MIDI data, into fully realised, colourful orchestral cues ready for recording or theatre performance.
I can also assist with session production and oversight (including conducting if required) to ensure seamless and impressive results from orchestral recording sessions.
🎼 Music Preparation
Production of session-ready / pit-ready Scores and Parts, both beautiful and practical.
Drawing from extensive experience on both sides of the music stand, I understand how orchestral musicians react to the sheet music put in front of them.
Practicality, clarity and ease of interpretation lie at the heart of my approach, freeing your musicians up to respond naturally and expressively to your music.
I work in Sibelius, Dorico and MuseScore and can work with your files originating from these programmes;
DAW MIDI exports/project files, or handwritten manuscripts.
I deliver ordered scores and parts in PDF format.
*Printing and Binding offered on consultation at additional fees.
*On site copyist work, for real-time edits during sessions/rehearsals, available by special arrangement
🎻 Arranging
I create orchestral arrangements to enhance and elevate the commercial releases or live performances of Recording Artists wishing to add a little magic to their tracks. I have a soft spot and specialist focus for string arrangements, but enjoy arranging for all instrument groupings , families and ensemble sizes [strings, brass, winds, choirs, keyboards, percussion and select "world" instruments - by consultation].
Pull a big sound out of a quartet or solo grand piano; or submit to the innate lushness of a full symphony-sized group with choir.
🎧 Transcription, Reductions, Proof-Reading, Repertoire Arrangements
I offer transcription from Audio or MIDI files, into performance ready sheets for varied performer group sizes - from solo players all the way up to large ensembles.
Combine with Arrangement services to create re-imaginings of favourites for any desired instrumentation.
All genres welcome!
Similarly, I am able to produce complete, yet exciting and idiomatic Piano Reductions of orchestral parts for rehearsal/reduced stagings of larger works; operas; ballets; musical theatre etc.
Complex contemporary works also welcome!
With a razor sharp eye for detail, I offer proof-reading and editing services for the final stages of your own score and part creation. I provide complete and clear visual and textual documentation of suggested edits. Edits can also be executed upon client approval using Sibelius, Dorico or MuseScore.
Please feel free to reach out for a friendly obligation-free chat on laurastevensmusic@gmail.com to discuss any of the above (or combo thereof). Combination package rates can be negotiated
