HarrisonParrott and Polyarts launches new music publishing service for composers

Management company HarrisonParrott, together with Polyarts, launches Birdsong Music Publishing – a publishing service for composers.

The service launches with its first six leading composers – Charlotte Bray, Jimmy López Bellido, Ben Rowarth, Christian Schumann, Freya Waley-Cohen, and Sauli Zinovjev. 

The aim of the service is to nurture development and encourage creativity whilst protecting and exploiting copyright. A dedicated team of publishing and music management experts will manage composers’ careers, offering individual support to each composer and genre-specific expertise that can alleviate the administrative burden placed on composers allowing them to focus on their music whilst giving access to the extensive HarrisonParrott management network to bring new opportunities for composers.

Co-founder and executive chairman of HarrisonParrott Ltd, Jasper Parrott, said: ‘Throughout over 55 years of my life in music, composers of our times have been an indispensable part of my and my colleagues’ work and at the heart of the mission of HarrisonParrott – to contribute to the renewal of the canon of live performance and the enrichment of the great heritage repertoire with which we are richly gifted.

'The launch of Birdsong is the realisation of an ambition we have had for many years, and it is exciting that this symbolically important step should chime with the urgent need to support creativity in the post-COVID music world.’

Lorna Aizlewood, chief operating officer of HarrisonParrott Ltd, said: ‘Jasper and I have felt that there is a gap in the market for this kind of bespoke publishing service for over 15 years and so we’re delighted that through the entrepreneurial, innovative approach that HarrisonParrott and Polyarts foster we are able to announce the launch of Birdsong. We look forward to working with the amazingly talented composers we are announcing today and to others in the future to open more opportunities for the creation of new works, new performances and new experiences for composers, artists and audiences.’

For further information, visit: www.harrisonparrott.com/birdsong