Editions Musica Ferrum

Editions Musica Ferrum is a music publishing company. Focussing on contemporary music, it has published over 80 scores, ranging from concert hall music for full orchestra to educational music [1] for piano solo. Several award winning composers have their music published by EMF. A possibly unique characteristic feature is the fact that the founder and director of this publishing house, Nikolas Sideris, is himself an award-winning composer "Artiste en Herbs, 2013, Luxembourg", where his "Piano Stories" won the first prize. His beautifully illustrated "Fairyland in Treble" is among the best-selling of the publications.

This publishing house describes itself as trying to make contemporary music accessible.[2] This has been acknowledged when it received the 2014 Gina Bachauer Prize for publishing houses.[3]

One of the means to make contemporary music more accessible is by combining multiple art forms. 9 New illustrations have been produced to inspire 9 composers from all over the world in the recently Kickstarter-funded project: Beauty and Hope in the 21st Century.[4]
Similarly, educational scores are made more attractive by the addition of illustrations, adding an engaging interplay between the story of the drawing, and that of the music.[5]
Likewise piano music and poetry has been combined in "All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12+1 Piano Songs on Texts by Women" and in "Rendezvous with Midnight: 12+1 Nocturnes for Teens"by Barbara Arens.(reviewed by Andrew Eales: https://pianodao.com/2016/07/21/rendezvous-with-midnight/) Editions Musica Ferrum wants to publish: “Music that is beautiful, engraved in handsome scores that are worth owning.” [2]