"Share Your SmartMusic Story" Contest Winners Announced

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MakeMusic, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMUS) announced Friday the winners of their "Share Your SmartMusic^® Story" contest. Sister Gail Buckman, of Saint Louis, MO was the grand prize winner, Bob Cieslinski of Kittanning, PA won second place, and Martha Boonshaft of Garden City, NY received third place. Details of the cash and prizes awarded to the top eight finishers are available on the SmartMusic contest page.

“Not only were we impressed with the volume of submissions and the thousands of votes cast, but we were gratified to read so many inspiring stories of how SmartMusic is helping to make a difference in music programs and in student learning.”

Launched in June, the "Share Your SmartMusic Story" encouraged SmartMusic educators to describe how SmartMusic has changed their music programs. On September 15 the top eight finalists (as picked by an internal panel of judges) were announced and their stories were posted on the contest page at smartmusic.com. All website visitors were then encouraged to vote for their favorite story until voting closed on September 30th.

"On behalf of all of us at MakeMusic, I'd like to thank everyone who participated," commented MakeMusic CEO Ron Raup. "Not only were we impressed with the volume of submissions and the thousands of votes cast, but we were gratified to read so many inspiring stories of how SmartMusic is helping to make a difference in music programs and in student learning."

All eight winning SmartMusic stories, as well as additional information on each of the finalists, are available at http://www.smartmusic.com/Community/Contest.aspx.

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About MakeMusic, Inc.

MakeMusic^®, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, is a world leader in music technology whose mission is to develop and market solutions that transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. For more than 20 years, Finale^® has been the industry standard in music notation software. It has transformed the process by which composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores. Additionally, MakeMusic is the creator of SmartMusic^®, the complete practice tool for band, orchestra and voice and SmartMusic Gradebook^TM, the web-based student grading and records management system. Further information about the company can be found at www.makemusic.com.