eMedia Music Corp.

• Private
• US

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eMedia Music Corporation is a software developer dedicated to producing high-quality, multimedia music instruction software. Formed in 1994 by Adrian Burton, formerly a manager at Microsoft Multimedia Publishing, eMedia is now the world's leading publisher of guitar instruction software. eMedia's titles have been critically acclaimed by sources such as Newsweek, Guitar One magazine and PC Magazine and have been endorsed by guitar legends such as Nancy Wilson of Heart and Peter Frampton, who hosts a nationally broadcasted infomercial for eMedia's Guitar Method. eMedia's excellence also has been recognized with several recent awards. In 2001 and 2002, eMedia received a Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 award recognizing the state's 50 fastest-growing technology companies. The company also was honored by Puget Sound Business Journal as one of Washington's 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies. In addition, eMedia has been named one of the state's Top 100 software companies for two years in a row by Washington CEO magazine. In 2003, eMedia was named one of the state's Top 40 software companies. As computers continue to find their way to homes across the globe, eMedia is positioning itself to offer a profound new music education experience. Multimedia's interactive capabilities, incorporating audio, video and user participation, surpass any traditional printed methods of education. Confident that this technology will in the long run become the dominant form of music self-education,...

President and Founder of Emedia Music

Number of Employees 14

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