Tens of professionals of the international music industry will attend the Mastering the Music Business conference in Bucharest, from March 17 to 19, in order to meet artists who are at the beginning of their career, established bands that want reach international stages and also to exchange ideas with the representatives of the local musical industry.
Structured in more than
30 panels, speed networking sessions, auditions and presentations, the Mastering the Music Business conference will bring forthnthe secrets and the taboo subjects in the mmusic industry. The event will take place at the Caro Hotel.
Two of the conference speakers are
Marius Mihalache – one of the best known dulcimer player in the world – and Pia Hoffman – one of the best known people in the film and television industry.
Marius Mihalache is the author of the soundtrack of the feature film
Filantropica, directed by
Nae Caranfil,
Garcea, directed by Sam Irvine,
Asfalt Tango, Marilena, and many others. He opened for Nina Simone, Chick Corea, Steve Vai, he played at the White House for the former G.W. Bush and he composed the music for the performance
Nathan the Wise, directed by Armin Petras.
Pia Hoffman is managing two records companies: Pantekind Records, dedicated to the emergent artists and Koensigskinder Music, specialized in soundtracks; she also takes part in different music conferences, such as the one taking place in Romania, in March, as a means to get to know emergent artists.
Among the most expected debates are the ones connected to the export of artists, to the equality of chances in the industry, about Tik Tok and on how the musical scene changes, but also the ones on how to avoid burnout, about social responsibility of the musical events, about finances for the music industry and about how you can get to the stages of the big festivals.
The world music industry has its entrepreneurs and some of them will tell their story during the MMB event: Dubioza Kolectiv – one of the most successful bands in Europe, Peter Smidt – founder of Eurosonic Noorderslag or Kadar Tamas – CEO of the Sziget Festival, one of the most famous festivals in the Central and Eastern Europe.
Apart from the panels, debates and workshops, tehre will also be an audition session with Philippe Weiss. The artists participating in the conference – from Romania and not only – can ask a second opinion regarding their music, from one of the best-known professionals in the industry. During his career, he worked with Madonna, David Guetta, Usher, Kendrik Lamar, Charles Aznavour, Drake, Martin Solveig, Alicia Keys and many more.
A concept already familiar to other business conferences will be present at this year`s edition of MMb. The participants will have the opportunity to know people from the industry in 5 minutes meetings, in four sessions of
speed networking.
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