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Universal Music launches SinfiniMusic.com

The big news this week is that Universal Music has launched its new classical music site Sinfini Music - complete with Videojuicer players, of course.

Sinfinimusic.com homepage

Plushmusic’s new home launched on Shopify

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Videojuicer producer (and classical trombonist) Matt Jolly, a new site for our partners Plushmusic went live this week. Matt has spent many hours porting the old site to a new home on the Shopify platform, and giving it a make-over courtesy of a fresh design by Videojuicer’s resident designer Denni Bakardji. And we’re all really happy with the results.

Dudamel and the Símon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra at Southbank Centre, part two

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel with the Símon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela signed off their residency at Southbank Centre on Tuesday night with two celebrations of nature on a huge orchestral canvas: Esteban Benzecry's Rituales Amerindios, and Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony. You can watch it here.

Videojuicer was there again to produce the Shell Classic International concert and stream it to the internet - including the surprise encore, which featured Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel delivering an epic Abendlich Strahlt from Wagner's Das Rheingold. We snapped him backstage dressed in horned hat, cloak and eyepatch and carrying a spear:

Gustavo Dudamel and the Símon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra at Southbank Centre

Videojuicer had the pleasure of bringing a stunning concert to the internet last Saturday - world famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel with the Símon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, performing a programme of works from Beethoven and Britten.

Southbank Centre commissioned Videojuicer to produce its flagship Festival of the World event, Sounds Venezuela 2012: two sold-out concerts from the global sensation Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Símon Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, also part of the London 2012 Festival.

London Sinfonietta perform four works by Harrison Birtwistle at London’s Southbank Centre

Harrison Birtwistle, the renowned British contemporary music composer, celebrates his 70th birthday next year. London Sinfonietta are gearing up for it already, by employing Videojuicer to film a concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre, featuring four of his works. The Guardian's Tom Service also chatted to Harrison about each piece. The film is scheduled for release during 2013.

Tom Service talks to Harrison Birtwistle

Northern Sinfonia play Beethoven’s Sixth

Owing to an unforeseen personal commitment in Caracas, conductor Christian Vasquez was forced at short notice to withdraw from his upcoming debut with Northern Sinfonia at the Sage Gateshead, the latest concert to be live streamed by Videojuicer.

Fortunately the estimable Grant Llewellyn was able to step in at short notice, and the final Classic FM Series concert was able to go ahead. The first half of the programme featured Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and Shostakovich's first Piano Concerto and this was followed by a performance of Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony. With exceptional pianist Jean-Frederic Neuburger and Northern Sinfonia's own Richard Martin on trumpet, it proved to a be a fantastic night of music.

Videojuicer completes Dero research project for Nesta and the Arts Council

Videojuicer has just finished it's part of the research project funded by Nesta and the Arts Council. We set out to test if live streaming can be a viable option for orchestras, by filming tnree orchestras in three venues and streaming them to the Guardian, BBC Music Magazine and four mixed arts venues in the north east of England.

This Guardian article by producer Matt Jolly explains the project in more detail, as does the microsite we created to catalogue the concerts and the various partners.

Email sign-up app applied to Aurora video

This week Videojuicer produced three classical music concert live streams as part of a Nesta-funded project research potential audience-reach for the sector. We also created an app-for-video which prompted viewers to enter an email address before they can watch the content being streamed into the player. The app can also be configured so that entry of an email address is optional.

You can see how it works in this video-on-demand version of the event.

Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy live in concert

We teamed up with the Manchester Camerata to offer you the chance to watch this brilliant orchestra live in concert, conducted by the ensemble’s music director Gábor Takács-Nagy. The programme included Webern, Brahms' Liebslieder Waltzes, Dvořák Love Songs and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence, and featured soprano Anna Stephany.

Our free webcast – of the whole concert – was available exclusively on BBC Music Magazine's Classical-Music.com website last night. You can watch the archived version here:

New World Symphony launch learning tool

Videojuicer clients New World Symphony have just launched a closed beta of their online video learning tool for musicians and orchestras, powered by our platform.

Working with Aurora Orchestra and Kings College Choir - Live Show

Today we are filming the Aurora Orchestra performing Mozart's Requiem with Kings College Choir at Kings Place in London. This will be appearing live on The Guardian website. Which is especially good as it's sold out for both of it's performances this evening (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/mozarts-requiem-2)

It's really pleasing to use our technology with such prestigious groups. We have been able to wrap this live performance with pre-recorded advertisements as well. We like integrating live and pre-recorded - it gives great results for businesses involved.

Manchester Camerata

Some of the team at VJ have been enjoying the culture up in Manchester. They were working on Manchester Camerata. We filmed a couple of the concerts - you can take a look at one: Giovanni Sollima: Portrait of an Italian and read a review here.

Aurora Orchestra – Seeing is Believing

In June 2011, Aurora Orchestra release their disc “Seeing is Believing” on Decca Classics, and launched it with a performance at Kings Place on May 7th. The concert featured 3 pieces from the CD by Nico Muhly, as well as some more established 20th century works by Charles Ives, Paul Hindemith, and John Adams.

The newly relaunched Decca Classics was keen to publicise the CD through all channels, and Kings Place wanted to show off their hall and technology. The concert was streamed live on the Guardian, Aurora and Facebook, using the Videojuicer platform. Using expertise drawn on from Plushmusic, we also directed the Kings Place camera operators to provide compelling footage, as well as negotiated with the BBC over sharing microphones for their own Radio 3 recording.

First-ever live coverage in Wigmore Hall awarded to Videojuicer’s Plushmusic.tv

Videojuicer premiers the Wigmore Hall Song Competition live on the web, as reviewed by Telegraph.co.uk.

Watch Sidney Outlaw: Silent Noon (Vaughan-Williams)