Fifth-Grade Composers Bring Out Their Best with Noteflight. Last month at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) in Manhattan, a concert of student compositions beautifully showcased one of Noteflight’s main reasons for being: lowering the barriers to creating new music and sharing it with others. Thanks to the vision and leadership of Matt McLean, one of LREI's music teachers, the school used Noteflight and other music technologies to make the creative process accessible to a group of young composers. By creating new compositions and hearing them performed live by experienced musicians, LREI’s students were able to express themselves through music with a new level of ease, spontaneity and collaboration.

These fifth and sixth graders offered 28 world premiere compositions in under two hours. The students scored their compositions directly in Noteflight, which were then printed out and performed by an ensemble of top-flight conservatory students from Mannes College (view and hear the compositions). Noteflight sponsored the concert after Matt McLean, who conceived and oversaw the project, contacted Noteflight with the idea. Read more...