Queenwood Publications Sold To The Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Anne McGinty, President and co-owner of Queenwood Publications, has announced the sale of Queenwood Publications’ assets to the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, effective March 31, 2002. The new company will trade under the Queenwood/Kjos label and will continue the traditions and integrity Queenwood Publications is known for throughout the world. Starting March 31, 2002 all Queenwood titles will be available exclusively from Kjos Music.
     “When considering the sale of Queenwood, it was extremely important to make sure the tradition of quality we have established would be continued — quality music, quality production values and quality service to our customers. It is with great pride and optimism that we join the Neil A. Kjos Music Company’s tradition of excellence in educational music and our shared optimism for growth,” stated Ms McGinty.
     Co-owner John Edmondson added, “Anne and I alone have been running Queenwood since we began. In order to continue the creative quality we have established and for which we are known, we want to dedicate more time and effort to the writing of the music than to the fulfillment of orders. We wanted a solid, stable company to become the new home for Queenwood, and this third generation educational music publisher fit the bill perfectly.”
     Mark Kjos, President of the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, concluded, “The outstanding Queenwood catalog of concert band music, plus the well established Beginning and Developing Band books, complement the Kjos catalog and our existing publications very nicely. We are also excited by the new jazz band series and string orchestra series that was recently introduced by Queenwood, and is causing much excitement in the industry and among educators.”
     The Queenwood catalog contains works by John Edmondson, Anne McGinty, Warren Barker, Douglas Akey, the late Charles Carter, Brant Karrick and others. The Beginning and Developing String Orchestra Series are both edited by Shirley Strohm Mullins, a renowned string expert.

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