Our Story

Our dream is to create one place for composers and musicians to meet, with a fair price for the composer, where you can easily download the music with a mouse click.

A new generation platform, easy, digital, independent and with a high-quality offer. At Sonolize it's all about music, the makers and the players. We love to help you to find each other quickly. 
Meet and discover and help us to realize something special.

Sonolize 
Compose  Share  Play

Your benefits as a musician

As a musician you can find a wide variety of sheet music at Sonolize. A new generation platform, easy, digital, independent and with a high-quality offer. Start downloading your sheet music today.

• High-quality offer and a wide variety.
• Easy to find with a simple style indication.
• Buy and download music with a mouse click.
• Ordering today is playing today.
• You buy directly from the composer.
• No mail, paper or transport. And that is sustainable.

Why participate as a composer?

• At Sonolize you get 65% of the selling price.
• You determine the price of your music yourself.
• When your work is played, all royalties go 100% to you.
• All copyrights remain yours, where they belong.
• You will be found here, in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
• Your work is globally visible, on a professional website.
• Your own personal profile page, where you can sell your music.
• Detailed information, previews and audio links with every composition.
• Change or remove your music? You can do that yourself.
• You have your own dashboard with clear insight into your sales data. 
• We pay you within 30 days.
• You contribute to a better and fairer music climate.
• Easy to use and of course, it’s free.

About us

Initiators of Sonolize are: Jan Gerrit Adema, father of 2 daughters, married, arranger, composer, conductor and creative brain, and Kamiel Rietsema, MBA, HR-consultant, entrepreneur, busy bee and happily living with his girlfriend. 

Together with our team we are building our dream, one place for composers and musicians to meet, with a fair price for the composer, where you can easily download the music with a mouse click. Digital, independent and fair.

And thanks to the help of Marco from 'Kaiji Design', Peter and Lieke from 'BlueMonque', Cody from 'Buro Barabas', Micha from 'SOLV Lawyers', Paul from 'De Boekhouder', Ilja and Mascha as a source of inspiration and our tireless colleagues Laura and Jake, Sonolize became that place.

Sonolize 
Compose  Share  Play

Our Advisory Board and Ambassadors

Sonolize Advisory board

Mariska Bogaard-Rethans - Head of Sales, Google customer service
Ger Nijkamp - Marketing manager EU & US, Dreumex
Alex Schillings - Associate professor at Royal Conservatory The Hague, Artez Conservatory Zwolle, Conductor.
Micha Schimmel - Senior Legal Counsel, SOLV Advocaten
Geert van Wijk - CFO, vanRijsingenGreen

Our friends

“Well thought-out initiative to revolutionize music sales by composers " Floris Kortie, TV ('Podium Witteman') and Theater ('The year 250 after Beethoven')

"Finally a place where the rights of the composers are respected and a fair price is paid for the creative work." 

"A wonderful initiative, I've been waiting for this for years. I recommend every composer to participate."

"Sonolize offers composers an online platform to publish and distribute their music themselves. This has the future in this digital age and provides a win-win situation for all involved. I warmly welcome this initiative", Ed de Boer, composer.

Fair Practice

Sonolize fully endorses the Fair Practice Code for entrepreneurship in the arts and culture sector. This code invites you to take joint responsibility for a Fair Chain, in which artists and creatives, but also those who enable art and culture, receive a Fair Share and Fair Pay based on the value of their craftsmanship.

Read about Fair Pay, Fair Share, Fair Chain. 

Charity goal

And before we forget, 1% of what we earn goes to charity. To help children make music.

Why? Very simple, because we think it is very important that as many children as possible learn about music in musiclessons at school and make music together. That's why we donate to the Dutch foundation "Meer Muziek in de Klas" (More music education at schools), that is committed to structural music education at all primary schools in the Netherlands.