Apart from my career as a composer, I am also a highly experienced music editor. I was an in-house editor / project manager at Peters Edition for over two-and-a-half years and am now a freelance music editor for a number of music publishers, including Faber Music, ABRSM Publishing, Boosey & Hawkes, Opera Rara and Peters Edition. Peters Edition sales publications for which I have been responsible for include:

  • Henri Duparc - Complete Songs (volumes for High and Medium/Low Voice)
  • Russian Operatic Arias (volumes for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Tenor and Bass)
  • The Complete Chopin: Waltzes
  • The Complete Chopin: Ballades (with First Concerto volume in production)
  • Flight - An Opera in Three Acts (Libretto)
  • Mozart - Complete Violin Sonatas Vol. 2 and Vol. 3
  • Haydn String Quartets Op. 71 & Op. 74
  • Grade 8 Piano Anthology 2007-2008
  • Errollyn Wallen Songbook

Recent publications that I have edited for other publishers include:

  • Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Vladimir Ashkenazy) - Boosey & Hawkes
  • Recorder World (Volumes 1-4) - ABRSM
  • Horn Quintet, by James MacMillan - Boosey & Hawkes
  • Heaven is Shy of Earth, by Julian Anderson - Faber Music (for BBC Proms 2006)
  • La cour de Celimene, by Ambroise Thomas - Opera Rara
  • Virginia, by Saverio Mercadante - Opera Rara
  • Corrado D'Altamura, by Federico Ricci - Opera Rara

I am fluent in Sibelius 4, InDesign and PageMaker, and can produce the highest-quality work available at every level of publication preparation, from copy-editing through to complete project management.

Contact me at jk_mccarthyuk@yahoo.co.uk  for further details.