MUSICIANS INSTITUTE and HAL LEONARD Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary of Publishing Collaboration.

LOS ANGELES -- 2007 marks ten years since the founding of Musicians Institute Press, the publishing collaboration between MI and Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest publisher of print music. MI Press was created in order to put MI-style educational materials in the hands of musicians around the world, and publications are divided into four categories: "Essential Concepts" (based on various programs' core curriculum), "Master Classes" (content from elective courses); "Private Lessons" ("one-on-one" lessons with MI faculty instructors); and "Videos" (in-depth lessons on DVD).

Founded in 1977, Musicians Institute has long been recognized as one of the world's premier colleges of contemporary music; intense, hands-on degree programs designed and taught by top-notch working professional musicians are available for guitarists, bassists, percussionists, vocalists, keyboardists, and musicians into recording, luthiery, film scoring and the music business.

In 1997, Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest and most innovative music print publisher, created the Musicians Institute Press imprint to exclusively publish books, book/CD packs and DVDs from these acclaimed educators. Prior to that, MI professors authored books and lessons through various publishers, but none of these were sanctioned by the school. There are currently more than 100 titles in the line with more being added regularly, and combined sales have surpassed over a million units.

Comments Hal Leonard Vice President of Pop & Standard Publications Jeff Schroedl, "We're very proud to serve as the official publisher for Musicians Institute. For countless musicians, attending MI is a lifelong, but unattainable, dream. We're pleased to do our part in making the unsurpassed curriculum from this school available to these students of music."

Keith Wyatt, Vice President of Programs for MI, says, "We're elated to have simultaneously reached both the 30-year anniversary of the school and this ten-year milestone with Hal Leonard. We knew from the beginning that Hal Leonard would be the publisher best-quipped to distribute MI Press on the widest scale, and we also knew that we could trust them to help us translate MI's unique educational style into print and video. We were absolutely right on both counts."