Hal Leonard Acquires Noteflight
World's largest creator of music publications and music education materials links up with creative online music community
MILWAUKEE and BOSTON, February 25, 2014 - In a major strategic move, Hal Leonard Corporation has acquired 100% ownership of Boston-based Noteflight, LLC, a fast-growing online community of nearly a million music makers.
Founded in 2008, Noteflight operates a website where musicians, composers, songwriters, arrangers, teachers and students can create, edit and share music scores in the cloud, instantly and easily. The website also gives musicians the opportunity to collaborate and comment on each other's music, while sharing musical opinions and other information through user forums.
With support and guidance from Hal Leonard, the existing Noteflight team will continue working together and will remain headquartered in Boston. Noteflight will operate as an independent company, within Hal Leonard's overall global operations. The company has aggressive expansion and growth plans for the immediate future.
According to Hal Leonard President Larry Morton, "The marriage of Hal Leonard and Noteflight is a perfect fit. The Noteflight online community and platform are very important to our future plans, and we are excited about the possibilities of working together to make online music scores more accessible and more widely used."
Noteflight President Joe Berkovitz adds, "Noteflight was founded on the idea of using the web to help musicians create music wherever, whenever and however they like. We feel very positive about the shared vision between Noteflight and Hal Leonard, and about the myriad possibilities for blending technology and content. There are tremendous opportunities in the market, and we are poised to capture them together."
About Noteflight
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Noteflight, LLC is dedicated to reinventing the way people create, share and use written music. Noteflight allows users to edit, display, play back and share music notation in a web browser, on any device.
Noteflight has an active online community of over 950,000 music enthusiasts. Its website hosts millions of user-created musical scores, both public and private. Noteflight addresses both individual music-makers and music educators at all levels with its family of products, available by online subscription. Noteflight also licenses its technology to industry leaders to manage scalable cloud-based repositories of sheet music that can be delivered to any device.
For more information, visit www.noteflight.com.