Composer Recordings

It couldn’t be easier to get a top-notch performance of your work. We create a meticulous and expressive performance, recorded with stunning clarity and quality, using your Sibelius or Finale files, or even from your hand-written scores.

To find out about performing your work, send us your score.

What Composers are Saying

“I was astonished the first time I heard a chamber work of mine performed by
Fauxharmonic. The professionalism was expected (considering the source) but the
executional and stylistic nuances came as a wonderful surprise. My very first
thought was that the director had to be an individual from an extensive
performance background, which proved to be correct. This product/art will go
far to support the exploration of modern serious music. My congratulations to
Paul Smith.” - Michael Staley

Dialogues of Plato - Apology (wind ensemble)

David Heuser “Man, this is absolutely dynamite!

You have done a fantastic job of capturing all of the nuance of the piece - the variety of the percussion, the string divisi, the mutes - all of it is here. I can’t imagine how many hours of work went into this. I just want to congratulate you on your frighteningly accurate representation of the piece.”

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (full orchestra)

David Heuser
Associate Professor of Composition at University of Texas San Antonio,
Winner of the 2006 Fauxharmonic Orchestra Composition Contest.

Fireheart (chamber orchestra)

“… so shockingly lifelike and thrilling that I am proud to send it to radio shows for airplay.”
Matthew H. Fields, composer

Awakening (chamber orchestra)

“The instruments are well positioned, in a hall with just the right kind of acoustics. The performance is evocative and wonderfully realistic. Both in solo passages and accompaniments, each instrument has the nuance and expression that makes it sound like its role is being interpreted and performed by a professional musician – which in fact it is.

I truly appreciate the rare combination of musicianship, sound judgment, conducting skills, performance ability, audio engineering and technical expertise you have brought to bear in this project. For me, the Fauxharmonic Orchestra has proven to be a one-stop center where an orchestral work can be interpreted (with input from the composer), virtually conducted, performed, and recorded — all in a single process. Thank you for a job very well done!”

Ludwig Tuman
Composer

What makes the Fauxharmonic Orchestra so good?

It’s not just the high-end technology. Technology is just a dumb tool that can’t play music by itself. It needs great musicians behind it to make great performances.

You can easily spend thousands on software and hardware to try to make your music sound great. But it will take you months of fiddling before you even get close to a good orchestra sound. Even then, without knowing the tricks of the trade … like how to balance the instruments of the orchestra, how to connect phrases so the end of one fits the beginning of the next, how to determine just how much space there should be between notes - and how to do all of this with digital instruments … you will spend hours trudging through tweaks and dead-ends.

And there are more headaches in store than just these sorts of musical concerns. Add to your list of woes the user-un-friendly interfaces, complex software dependencies and computers pushed to their limits, and you can count on experiencing regular tech-support headaches without end.

Why put yourself through this? You would not go buy an expensive violin and practice every day for ten years just to play your new violin sonata. You’d hire a violinist.

But, you can’t do that with orchestral music (unless you have a goldmine of your own). And that’s why The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is here.

You focus on composing. You imagine and create. We work hard on playing your music with passion and precision. So, send us your scores and … leave the playing to us.

Powerful Performances

The Fauxharmonic Orchestra performs with a musicality and subtlety alien to most digital orchestras … and, dare we say it, beyond many live orchestras as well.

Led by Paul H. Smith, a conductor trained by Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache, the Fauxharmonic stretches the capabilities of the latest instruments, bringing digital orchestral performance to a new level.

Fostering New Expression

The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is committed to supporting and strengthening new orchestral composition. Our composition contest, podcasts and digital orchestration workshops encourage and promote new music worldwide.