Press & media kit.
For journalists, music publications, podcasters, and marketing teams crediting our catalogue. Logos, founder bio, fact sheet, and an expert-quote line for music industry stories.
The fact sheet.
Numbers and names you can quote in your story without checking. Updated quarterly. Last updated May 2026.
The Musicians Club
A premium music retail destination for the working musician — sheet music from sixty-three publishers and fine instruments curated to conservatory standard.
2023
Founded by Baldvin Oddsson, trumpet player and Brassclub LLC founder.
20,000+ editions
Curated across 63 publishers from Breitkopf (1719) through the contemporary American educational presses.
Six institutional programs
Standing Order, Hire Library, Educator Pricing, School District Partnership, Festival Repertoire,.
The Exchange
Peer-to-peer instrument marketplace where professional musicians sell directly to professional musicians. Every listing reviewed, every transaction protected.
press@themusiciansclub.net
Press inquiries respond within 24 hours. Founder available for music-industry stories on classical music retail, urtext editions, conservatory libraries, and the Hal Leonard distribution network.
Founder biography.
Baldvin Oddsson is the founder of The Musicians Club and Brassclub LLC. An trumpet player by training, he founded Brassclub in 2023 with a single observation: most music retail exists on price-and-convenience while leaving the editorial layer — what publisher, what edition, what tradition — entirely unexplained. The Musicians Club is built to invert that: editorial first, transactional second.
The store represents 63 music publishers, sells fine instruments curated against the standard of the conservatory and the concert hall, runs institutional partnership programs for orchestras and conservatories, and operates The Exchange — a peer-to-peer instrument marketplace where professional musicians sell directly to professional musicians.
Press contact.
For interviews, quotes, statistics, photography, or fact-checks: email press@themusiciansclub.net. We respond within 24 hours during US business days. The founder is available for stories on:
- The classical music retail landscape (vs. JW Pepper, Sheet Music Plus, Sweetwater)
- Urtext editions and the German editorial tradition (Bärenreiter, Henle, Breitkopf, Wiener Urtext)
- The orchestra music librarian's craft and the hire-library system
- School music programmes and the Hal Leonard distribution network
- Music education economics and the educator-discount industry
- Contemporary composers and the editorial homes that publish them
Logos & brand assets.
Brand assets — logos in PNG and SVG, founder portrait, store photography — are available on request. Email press@themusiciansclub.net with the publication name and intended use. We respond within 24 hours with download links.
Story angles we are happy to support.
- The orchestra librarian who never gets profiled — the working music librarian as the unsung infrastructure of the modern symphony orchestra
- Beethoven 2027 — the upcoming Bärenreiter critical edition for the 2027 anniversary year, the editorial committee's methodology, the comparison with the Henle blue-cover
- Urtext as a brand — how four German publishing houses became the global scholarly authority for the Western canon
- The Hal Leonard pipe — how a single distributor (Hal Leonard) became the print-music conduit for Disney, Universal, and 60+ heritage imprints
- The peer-to-peer instrument economy — how marketplaces like Reverb, eBay, and our own Exchange are restructuring the way professional musicians upgrade gear