25th IAMA International Conference 'In from the margins

In from the margins25th IAMA International Conference

23-25 April 2015Finlandia Hall, Helsinki

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Becoming Chairman of the International ArtistManagers’ Association nearly three years ago hasgiven me a unique overview of our profession aswell as an opportunity to influence the agenda alittle. It was therefore with great pleasure that Iproposed Helsinki to IAMA’s Board of Directors asour host city for the 25th IAMA InternationalConference. It seemed a natural choice sinceFinland has a very established music communitywith many great artists who are making successfulinternational careers. The Finnish capital also boastssome superb cultural infrastructure, including thenew Helsinki Music Centre and our mainConference venue, Finlandia Hall, which holds thecollective memory of the artists and audiencemembers who for many years experienced greatmusic-making here.

We are very grateful to our partners and sponsorswho have made this year’s Conference possibleand, of course, to you our delegates. Above all, wevalue the ongoing support of our Members,

without whom none of IAMA’s work would bepossible. Whatever successes or difficulties you maybe experiencing in your professional life at themoment, I’d like to recommend that you make themost of the Conference’s true network – a humanone, which you will find all around you during thenext few days. I wish you inspired discussions andhope you will remember this as one of the bestConferences you have ever attended! Thanks toAleksi Malmberg for chairing the Conference soably and I look forward to meeting as many of youas possible.

welcome, willkommen, bienvenue

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Aino Turtiainen-Visala, IAMA Chairman

Uncertainty about the future is an old and familiarcompanion in our field of classical music. Concernover audiences growing older has been aroundfor longer than the average age of today’sconcert-goers. I find myself wondering if even‘Papa’ Bach would have worried about theyounger generation not fully valuing the complexand profound nature of his contemporaries’ art,not to mention the issues of money and fundingthat have been around for longer than, tonality.

If these factors are not enough, we also havegrave new problems to solve. Competition isglobal and classical music is being marginalised.Many of us find ourselves in the margin of themargins. But what if the mainstream werebecoming narrower day by day? Perhaps themargin is actually widening, flourishing andgenerating new possibilities?

We all work in an environment very different fromten years ago. There are ever-growing numbers ofpeople in a world that is rapidly becoming smaller

and smaller – everyone can be their own mediaentity and technology makes it possible to deliverone’s message in a more direct, more accessibleway than ever before. Meanwhile, the art we loveso much has not lost a tiniest bit of its originalpower. The situation is really not that bad, buthow can we make the best out of the currentpossibilities?

I am thrilled to welcome you to discuss thesematters in our margin of Europe, Helsinki.Stimulated by great speakers from around theworld we can share our knowledge, creativity andpassion, as well as our concerns and ideas.Together with the warm, intensive get-togetheratmosphere for which the IAMA Conference isfamous, I hope each of us can take home somelong-lasting bits of inspiration.

Aleksi Malmberg, Director, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux

Aleksi Malmberg, Conference Chairman

25th IAMA International Conference

Aino Turtiainen-Visala, Managing Director, Fazer Artists' Management Inc.

Aleksi Malmberg

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Scandic Park Helsinki

Helsinki Congress Paasitorni

Finlandia Hall

Helsinki Music Centre

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Khushroo Suntook is the Chairman of India’s National Centre for thePerforming Arts (NCPA) and the founding Chairman of the SymphonyOrchestra of India. He is also an Advocate of the Bombay High Court and aFellow of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (FICSI).

Khushroo was one of the founders of Bisleri, the Italian Mineral WaterCompany in India, and from 1968-2000 he held several senior roles in theTata Group, including Directorships of Tata Oil Mills, Tata Finance Ltd, theTata Investment Corporation, Lakmé Ltd and Tata McGraw Hill Ltd. Khushrooended his executive career in Tata as President of Tata Services Ltd. Hecontinued to serve as an Independent Director in several Tata companiesuntil 2013, when his involvement in the National Centre Performing Artsbecame full time.

Khushroo is a former President of India’s Council for Fair Business Practices,and during his wide-ranging career has conducted international business innumerous countries, most notably in Russia, Japan and Italy.

Khushroo had a distinguished sporting career, both as a tennis player andsports administrator. A national standard tennis player, he was the winnerof several titles played internationally, and was the youngest HonorarySecretary of the International Lawn Tennis Club of India. He also served onthe Council of the Bombay Tennis Association and was the President of theTata Sports Club, which boasted several Olympians and national sportsmenamong their membership. He represented the Tata Group for many years astheir representative on the presiding committee of the Cricket Club of India,and during his tenure organised a Davis Cup Challenge Round between theUSA and India plus three ATP tennis tournaments.

Since childhood, Khushroo’s great passion has been music. He is a frequentspeaker for the Recorded Vocal Arts Society in London and an avid collectorof early and rare recordings. Khushroo was chosen by the NCPA’s founder,Dr Jamshed Bhabha, to be his successor as Chairman. Khushroo has servedas the NCPA’s Vice Chairman since 2000 and, following Dr Bhabha’s death, asChairman from 2008. In 2006, he founded India’s first fully professionalsymphony orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of India – a daring move thatwas initially received with scepticism, but has proved a great success.

As NCPA Chairman, Khushroo has reorganised and revitalised the Centre,transforming it into India’s premier performing arts venue. Its five theatrespresent more than 700 performances per year spanning a wide range ofgenres, including Western classical music, theatre (both Indian and Western),Indian classical music, Indian dance and films. It is a preferred venue forprestigious events, such as the annual Tata Lit Live festival and tours byorchestras from across the world. The Symphony Orchestra of India has alsostarted to receive invitations to tour internationally and has alreadyperformed in Russia and Oman.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius – acomposer who helped to shape Finnish cultural identity, and who becameone of the best-known Finns of all time. In fact, Sibelius still tops the globalcharts of the most performed Finnish music, year after year. Moresignificantly, however, the Sibelius celebrations are an opportunity to takea look at the great composer’s legacy. Musical culture is rooted inFinnishness, and music is undoubtedly an integral part of our society. Ananniversary year such as this gives us a good reason to present and celebrateFinland’s current musical talent and expertise.

As a fairly small nation, the abundance of talented, skillful and innovativecomposers and musicians that we have been able to produce never fails toamaze me. Many have already won international recognition, and many areyet to be discovered. The role of Music Finland is to facilitate the promotionand internationalisation of Finnish music, to open doors for both renownedand new musicians and composers, and to create business opportunities fortheir representatives – agents, managers, labels and publishers. Togetherwith IAMA, we have put together a series of showcases as part of this year’s

Conference programme. Our aim has been to provide a sample of the varietyand skill Finland has to offer, while maintaining high artistic integrity andcoherence.

The 25th IAMA International Conference is my first. I feel privileged toexperience my first Conference in my home city, and to be able to share withyou everything it has to offer – from a vibrant musical life to many other life-enhancing qualities. I hope you enjoy your stay and leave feeling energised,with a delegate bag full of new experiences, fruitful business openings andmusical inspiration.

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Khushroo Suntook

Tuomo Tähtinen,Executive Director, Music Finland

Music performances are presented by Music Finland – pleasesee the showcase brochure in your delegate bag for details.

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Highlights of Hannu’s 2014/15 season include hisdebut with the Hallé and appearances with the BBCScottish Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Lahti Symphony orchestras, as well as WDRSinfonieorchester Köln, Orquestra Simfònica deBarcelona and Tokyo Metropolitan SymphonyOrchestra. In the USA he returns to the BaltimoreSymphony and Saint Louis Symphony orchestrasand makes his debut with the Detroit Symphonyand Minnesota orchestras.

Last season, Hannu stepped in at short notice toconduct the Philharmonia Orchestra, and otherrecent engagements have included the RoyalScottish National Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzigand Orchestre national de Lyon; the RoyalStockholm Philharmonic and GothenburgSymphony orchestras; and the CincinnatiSymphony Orchestra and Houston Symphony.

Recent operatic projects include Sallinen’s Kullervoat the 2014 Savonlinna Opera Festival andTannhäuser with Tampere Opera in 2012. Regularlyappearing with Finnish National Opera, Hannu hasconducted several productions including Parsifal(directed by Harry Kupfer), Carmen and AulisSallinen’s King Lear. He has also worked withEstonian National Opera, recording TaunoPylkkänen’s Mare and her Son.

Hannu Lintu has made several recordings forOndine, Naxos, Avie and Hyperion, with whom herecently recorded Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos.22and 24 with Angela Hewitt and the National ArtsCentre Orchestra, Ottawa. Other recent recordingsfeature works by Ligeti, including the ViolinConcerto with Benjamin Schmid, and Messiaen’sTurangalîla Symphony with Angela Hewitt andValerie Hartmann-Claverie – both for Ondine withthe Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hannu hasreceived several accolades for his recordings,including a 2011 Grammy nomination for BestOpera CD plus Gramophone Award nominationsfor his recordings of Enescu’s Symphony No.2 withthe Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and the ViolinConcertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès withAugustin Hadelich and the Royal LiverpoolPhilharmonic Orchestra.

Hannu Lintu studied cello and piano at the SibeliusAcademy, where he later studied conducting withJorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses withMyung-Whun Chung at the Accademia Chigiana inSiena, Italy, and took first prize at the NordicConducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.

specialguestHannu Lintu

The author of No Fear: Business Leadership for theDigital Age, Pekka Viljakainen has spent the past20 years as an ambassador fostering relationshipsbetween business executives and technologyteams. With a background in engineering fromthe Lappeenranta University of Technology,Pekka began his career as an entrepreneur in 1986by establishing Oy Visual Systems Ltd.

In 1998, Pekka joined the IT services companyTieto through the acquisition of Oy VisualSystems. His reputation and track record at Tietofor successfully handling very complexgovernance and political projects in largeinternational organisations earned him thenickname ‘Bulldozer’.

Thanks to his technical background and passionfor business, Pekka has been one of the leadingarchitects within Tieto for building a more

efficient information society. He is heavilyinvolved in promoting the necessary preparationsfor a true revolution of services, and the strategicrole of digitalisation across Europe, Russia andChina. As a true partner for organisations in mostindustries, Pekka has analysed the fundamentalchanges in consumer behaviour and theirimplications for corporate strategies in allinformation intensive businesses. He led a teamof over 8,000 people in 24 countries at TietoInternational.

In November 2010, Pekka made the decision tostep down from his operational roles. Untilreturning to business, he will focus his time on hisfamily and charity projects, including supportingthe No Fear project with its global network ofexecutives.

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schedule

IAMA Board meeting

Registration opens Refreshments available and business meeting area open

Meet the IAMA Board and welcome drinksAll first-time delegates, sponsors and new members at the Conference are welcome to join theboard for a drink before lunch and introduce yourselves.

9:30-12:30Finlandia Hall

10:00 – 12:30Finlandia HallFoyer

12:30 – 13:00Finlandia Hall

Thursday 23rd April 2015


Lunch

WelcomeOpening performance by Minna Pensola (violin), Auri Ahola (dance) and Marko Myöhänen (electronics)

Kaija Saariaho … de la Terre

Opening remarks:Kaija Saariaho, composer (by video)

Aino Turtiainen-Visala, IAMA Chairman and Managing Director, Fazer Artists' Management

Aleksi Malmberg, IAMA Conference Chairman and Director, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux

Keynote address:Khushroo Suntook, Chairman, National Centre for the Performing Arts, India and Chairman, Symphony Orchestra of India


Panel session I – In from the Margins: Perspectives in Classical MusicOpening performance by defunensemble

Sami Klemola PeakPerttu Haapanen Doll Garden

Moderator: Susannah Simons, Director of Strategy, Showcase

Speakers: Ahmed Abouzahra, General Manager, Arabesque International Päivi Kärkkäinen, General Director, Finnish National Opera Marc de Mauny, General Manager and Executive Producer, Perm Opera and Ballet TheatrePeter Tra, Head of Concert Programming, TivoliVredenburg

Closing performance by defunensemble

Juhani Nuorvala Ruoikkohuhuilu (Flute of the Seaside Reeds)


Ice BreakerSponsored by IMG Artists


Concert: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, conductorJörg Widman, clarinet

Jörg Widman Con brio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet concerto KV622Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 op 27

**If you have not got a ticket for the evening’s performance, please enquire at the registration desk as theremay be availability on the day** All delegates are invited to gather in the late night bar at the Scandic Park Hotel for post-concert drinks andtraditional music from Kaustinen, Finland

19:00-21:00Helsinki Music Centre

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Registration opens Registration and business meeting areas open

Panel session II – Technology in FocusOpening performance by FiBO Players and Eija Kankaanranta (kantele)

Dietrich Buxtehude Sonata V in A Major Bux-WV263Jukka Tiensuu Musica Ambigua, VetoJuhani Nuorvala Concertino

Tourte bow or record industry: Technology and new innovations have profoundly changed musicand the ways in which it is experienced. The pace of technological development shows no signs ofgetting any slower, but how will it affect concert music and its customs in the future?

Moderator:Susannah Simons, Director of Strategy, Showcase

Speakers: Reijo Kiilunen, Managing Director, Ondine Jyri Huopaniemi, Director and Head of Nokia Research Centre Media Technology Laboratories Jochen Sandig, Artistic Director, Radialsystem VSimon Walker, Managing Director, Canvas

Peer-to-peer sessionsThese are simultaneous, hour-long sessions designed for more intimate discussion on focus areas ofconcern

Venue: Helsinki HallI Local artist managements come in from the margins Looking at the model of artist management in today’s contextSession leader: Aino Turtiainen-Visala, Managing Director, Fazer Artists’ Management

Venue: Business Hall II Music competitions and career opportunityHow relevant is the role of a competition to furthering the career of an artist today and what are thechanging roles of artist manager and competition alike? Session leader:Glen Kwok, President, World Federation of International Music Competitions and ExecutiveDirector, International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

9:00Finlandia HallHelsinki Hall

10.00-11:45Helsinki Hall

12:00 – 13:00Helsinki Hall

13:00 – 14:30

Friday 24th April 2015

LunchSponsored by Air Charter Service


14:30 – 15:45Business areas

Stories to be told: New Businesses. New startups. Russia. No Fear.Opening performance by Pia Komsi (soprano and cello)

Jovanka Trbojevic Sky Shopping

Special guest introduced by Aleksi Malmberg:Pekka Viljakainen, Youth International Economic Forum & Skolkovo FoundationManagement guru in startup companies in both in Russia and Finland, Pekka Viljakainen is known for hiscontroversial stance to business and has sown seeds of challenge and innovation

Helpdesks: Do you need tax and legal help?Our experts will be on hand to assist you with advice on a drop-in service basis, but best to book inadvance

Venue: Desks will be set up in the business areas so enquire at the registration desk if you are unsurewhere to go

Irving David, Partner, DWFM Beckman Solicitors (contract advice) Brian Taylor Goldstein, Partner, GC Arts Law (all areas of US tax and immigration,licensing and contracts) Mark Wingate, Partner, Private Client Tax Services, Smith & Williamson (all areas of tax)

16:00 – 17:00 Optional evening activity: Lahti Symphony Orchestra and reception**This is a pre-paid event with registration but if you would like to attend, we will do our best toaccommodate you. Please make your enquiries at the registration desk**

The optional evening activity is a chance to experience the renowned Lahti Symphony Orchestra inconcert at the magnificent Sibelius Hall. We join the Finnish orchestra managers who are celebratingthe 50th National Orchestra Conference of the Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras

17:15 – 19:00Sibelius Hall

19:00 – 21:15Sibelius HallLahti

ReceptionSponsored by the City of Lahti

Concert: Lahti Symphony OrchestraSponsored by the City of Lahti

Okko Kamu, conductorRéka Szilvay, violinMarko Ylönen, celloHeini Kärkkäinen, piano

Kalevi Aho SilenceLudwig van Beethoven Triple ConcertoJean Sibelius Festivo (Scènes historiques I)Harri Ahmas Lux ArcticaJoonas Kokkonen Symphony No. 4

Buses return to Scandic Park Hotel after the performanceExpected arrival in Helsinki is between 10.30pm and 11pm

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15:00-16:00Helsinki Hall


Registration opens Registration and business areas open

Sibelius NowOpening performance by the Uusinta Ensemble

Ville Raasakka Fright NightBeat Furrer AerVeli-Matti Puumala Envol

Reflections on the work of Sibelius

Special guest:Hannu Lintu, Chief Conductor, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Panel session III: Artist managers should do more to champion women composers and conductorsOpening performance by the Helsinki Chamber Choir (dir. Nils Schweckendiek)

Kalevi Aho Movement from Three songs for Mawlana Rumi’s poemsLotta Wennäkoski 3 movements from OmmelBeat Furrer 2 movements from Enigma

The classical music world has not kept pace with the changing status of equality in other areas of society,and women composers and conductors remain woefully underrepresented across the industry. Doesresponsibility for this imbalance lie squarely with the artist management world, and should managersdo more to champion women in these roles? Make up your own mind during this debate.

Moderator:Susannah Simons, Director of Strategy, Showcase

Speakers:Marie-Hélène Bernard, President & CEO designate, St Louis Symphony; Executive Director,Handel and Haydn Society, Boston, MAEva Skotte Ollikainen, conductor Jasper Parrott, Executive Chairman, HarrisonParrott Margaret Yang, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Sinfonietta

9:00 - 10:00Finlandia HallHelsinki Hall



Saturday 25th April 2015

IAMA Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General MeetingAll welcome

Optional fun eventsYou can sign up for these events at the registration desk and they are offered on a first come, firstserved basis

Visit to Ainola: The home of Aino and Jean Sibelius (bus provided)Tour of the Finnish National Opera House“Path of Sibelius”: Tour of Helsinki following in the footsteps of Sibelius (bus provided) –sponsored by the City of Helsinki Traditional Finnish Sauna – sponsored by Fazer Artists' Management

Lunch Sponsored by Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestraand Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Conference closing session and introduction to the 26th IAMA International Conference Conference closing session and remarks moderated by Aleksi Malmberg, ConferenceChairman, with members of ‘Collective X’:

Johanna Råman, Administrative Director, Our FestivalSanna Nyyssölä, Artist Manager, Sublime Music AgencyOlli Brummer, Director, Fazer Artists’ Management

13:00-14:00



IAMA non-profit showcaseNeeme Ots, trumpetTurn to page 24 for full programme details

19:45 - 20:15Helsinki CongressPaasitorni

20:15-22:30Helsinki CongressPaasitorni

Sunday 26th April 2015

Pre-dinner drinksDrinks sponsored by Konzertdirektion Schmid

Conference party sponsored by Christie’sBuffet and farewell drinks featuring musical comedy trio the Fabulous Bäckström Brothers

The venue is located next to Hakaniemi square, just a short taxi ride from the Scandic Park Hotel.Numerous metro, tram or bus routes also go to Hakaniemi – visitwww.paasitorni.fi/en/visitors/transport for details

Estonian trip invitation for Conference attendeesVisit to Tallinn, Estonia

IAMA Affiliate Member the Pille Lill Music Fund (PLMF, Estonia) invites Conference delegates to visit Tallinnon Sunday 26th April. You will have the chance to see the city, meet key figures of the Estonian and Balticclassical music scene and listen to a handful of talented Estonian musicians. PLMF will organise the returntrip to Tallinn, which takes two hours on the ferry from Helsinki. Participants should therefore expect to stayan extra night in Helsinki and return home on Monday 27th April

Please contact Leelo before making your travel and hotel bookings as places are limited:

Leelo Lehtla, PLMF General [email protected], +37256484244www.plmf.ee, facebook.com/plmf.ee

We look forward to seeing you at the 26th IAMA International Conference, which takes place inTivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands (7-9 April 2016)

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Ahmed Abouzahra is a concert pianist and an arts manager. Bornin Egypt, he graduated from the Cairo Conservatoire and wenton to study in Germany, where he has lived for the past 20 years.His accolades include five diplomas, including the first ever pianoduo diploma issued by a German conservatoire.

Ahmed has performed with the Vienna Symphony and RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra as well as many other European, Asian,American and Latin American orchestras. He founded the HorusPiano Duo in 1997 with the Hungarian pianist Nóra Emödy, andtogether they have won more 10 prizes at international pianoduo competitions in Italy, Germany and the US.

During his career as a professional pianist, Ahmed’s growingambition to facilitate and encourage dialogue between Arab andWestern culture led him become an arts manager. Promotingcultural understanding through performance became his full-time

occupation with the establishment of East West Art Promotion inGermany in 2000, in Egypt in 2004, and of ArabesqueInternational in Oman in 2012. He still occasionally performs as apianist and tours worldwide.

As artist himself, Ahmed’s approach to arts managementprioritises artistic value, with business strategies seen as themeans to artistic ends. Both as a pianist and an arts manager,Ahmed has built a strong network of contacts among leadingartists and cultural institutions in Europe, the Americas, China andthe Middle East. In bringing internationally renowned orchestras,ballets and operas to audiences in the Arab world, he hasdeveloped a deep understanding of these art forms as well as theability to work with people from very different cultures. ForAhmed, ‘arts management is a combination of knowledge, artisticideas, interpersonal and communication skills along withbusiness talent and great discipline’.

Ahmed Abouzahra

Marc de Mauny is the General Manager of Perm Opera and BalletTheatre in the Urals region of Russia. The son of the BBC’s firstpermanent foreign correspondent in Moscow, Erik de Mauny,Marc developed a fascination for Russia and Russian culturewhich led him to read Russian at Cambridge University. Hesimultaneously pursued his musical studies, including spendinga year at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire,where he met the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis.

From 1998 to 2000, de Mauny was Arts Officer at the British Councilin St Petersburg, where he was responsible for the arts programmeof the 300th anniversary celebrations of Peter I’s Grand Embassy toEngland. In 1998, he set up the St Petersburg International EarlyMusic Festival together with violinist Andrei Reshetin as artisticdirector. The Festival had a marked and lasting impact on musicallife in Russia, presenting repertoire unknown to Russian audiencesand giving rise to a new generation of musicians, committed to

period performance. Following a three-year stint as head of publicrelations and philanthropy for a major multinational bank inMoscow, he returned to the arts sector in 2010 as director ofdevelopment at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg.

In 2011, Teodor Currentzis was offered the post of ArtisticDirector of Perm Opera, and Marc de Mauny joined him asGeneral Manager. Their first task was to integrate MusicAeterna(orchestra and chorus), previously founded by Currentzis inNovosibirsk, into the existing structure of the theatre.MusicAeterna has since established itself as one of the mostexciting ensembles on today’s international scene. Theorchestra and chorus participate in the theatre’s new opera andballet productions, give regular concerts of symphonic andchamber music, and have released several critically acclaimedrecordings on the Sony Classical label. MusicAeterna toursregularly in Russia and abroad.

Marc de Mauny

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Aleksi Malmberg is a key player in the international cultural scene,currently working in Brussels as the Director for the Finnish CulturalInstitute for the Benelux. Until last year he was the ProgrammeManager of Helsinki Festival, the largest multidisciplinary artsfestival in the Nordic-Baltic region with over 240,000 visitors in 2014.

With a background in musicology, Aleksi’s professional experienceranges from co-founding the Helsinki Spring Light Chamber MusicFestival to producing live televised arena concerts. His varied careeralso includes several years of artist management in Sublime MusicAgency, running the music publishing company Tactus Ltd,

production for the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Tapiola YouthSymphony, and writing the history of the oldest concert hall inHelsinki – the Hall of Culture. One of the highlights of Aleksi’s careerto date was managing Our Festival alongside artistic director PekkaKuusisto, where they explored ways in which this smallinterdisciplinary festival near Helsinki could offer new musicalperspectives and create a unique experience for audiences.

In his spare time Aleksi enjoys running barefoot, and having recentlymoved to the warmer climate of Central Europe is preparing to runhis first marathon without shoes.

Aleksi Malmberg

Päivi Kärkkäinen studied at the University of Tampere, completinga Lic. Phil. degree in Finnish and Journalism. She continued herstudies at Ohio State University in the USA on an ASLA-Fulbrightscholarship, and in 2000 she completed the JOKO ExecutiveEducation course at the Helsinki School of Economics. She alsoholds a B.Sc. (Speech Ed.) degree from the University of Tampere.

Päivi has held a variety of senior management positions since 1994.She was Head of Programming and Deputy Programme Directorfor TV2 at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) until 2001,Programme Director for TV2 and member of the TV managementgroup 2002-2006, and Head of Programming for Fact and CultureYLE plus deputy to the Director of Fact and Culture YLE 2006-2007.

As Head of Programming, Päivi had overall responsibility for Finnish-language TV broadcasting at YLE, including joint productions andinternational programme acquisitions, programme imports andexports, and Fact and Culture YLE customer functions. Together withthe Director of Fact and Culture YLE, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Päivimanaged the six content areas of Fact and Culture YLE: YLE CurrentAffairs (TV), YLE Factual, YLE Culture, YLE Learning and Science, YLEDrama and YLE FRSO [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra]. Prior toher management career, she worked as a journalist, a lecturer andamanuensis at the University of Tampere, and an elocution teacher.

Päivi was appointed General Director of the Finnish National Operain December 2007.

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Peter Tra is a concert programmer at the Utrecht concert hallVredenburg, which was rebuilt and reopened as the five-venueconcert hall complex TivoliVredenburg in 2014. Some 360classical concerts now take place each year at TivoliVredeburg,together with 500 pop, dance and jazz events.

Peter began organising concerts, operas and festivals whilestudying musicology at Utrecht University. He quit his studiesin 1992 to found the Belcanto Festival Dordrecht, and four yearslater became managing director of Opera Studio Netherlands

in Amsterdam. After producing an adventurous European circusopera tour he finally found time to graduate, and went on towork at the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, mainlyrunning the NJO Summer Academy. He took up his current postin 2004.

Susannah Simons

Peter Tra

Susannah Simons is an arts strategist. She is currently bothDirector of Strategy at Showcase, connecting business andcultural organisations, and Director Arts at Rightster, developinga multi-channel network on YouTube that will launch inSeptember 2015 with funding from Arts Council England.

Having enjoyed a successful broadcasting career with the BBC,Channel 4 and Classic FM, Susannah became Head of Policy andOutreach for BBC Radio and Music in 2003. This role includedresponsibility for developing the education and outreach work for

the BBC’s performing groups. She managed the BBC’s PublicValue Partnership with Arts Council England for eight years andwas Project Executive for the BBCs engagement with theCultural aspects of London 2012, culminating in thedevelopment of the pilot phase of the BBC / Arts Council digitalplatform The Space. She left the BBC at the end of 2013.

Susannah is a trustee of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,Youth Dance England and the recently formed National Orchestrafor All. She is also vice chair of the New Music Biennial.

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Jochen Sandig studied psychology and philosophy in Berlin,where he has spent the past 25 years as an urban pioneer andcultural entrepreneur. Passionate about the arts and the city aspublic space, he has enriched Berlin by founding several culturalinstitutions: Tacheles, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Sophiensæle andRadialsystem V.

Following the founding of Kunsthaus Tacheles in 1990, Jochenremained its director until 1994. In 1993, together with his wifeSasha Waltz, he founded the contemporary dance companySasha Waltz & Guests. The pair went on to found Sophiensaele,an open arena for dance and theatre productions, which Jochenled until 1999. From 2000 to 2004, Jochen was one of the artisticdirectors as well as dramaturge at Schaubühne am LehninerPlatz, and since 2004 he has been artistic director and managerof Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH.

Together with Folkert Uhde, Jochen founded Radialsystem V‘Space for Arts and Ideas’ in 2006 as a privately-funded venture.He is also the Chairman of the Radial Foundation. With SashaWaltz & Guests, Jochen has produced several independentopera productions including Dido and Aeneas, Medea, Passion(Pascal Dusapin) and Matsukaze (Toshioa Hosokawa). InFebruary 2012 he made his directing debut with HumanRequiem, a staging of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem performedby the Rundfunkchor Berlin under conductor Simon Halsey.

Jochen is a member of the Steering Committee for CulturalPolicy in the Berlin Senate and a Member of the SteeringCommittee for the ‘Global Parliament of Mayors’.

Jyri Huopaniemi

Jochen Sandig

Jyri Huopaniemi was born in Helsinki and graduated as a Doctorof Science in Technology in 1999, focusing on virtual acousticsand three-dimensional audio. His academic research andteaching topics have covered 3D audio, music signal processingand virtual reality at Helsinki University of Technology andStanford University. Since 1998, he has been with NokiaCorporation, most recently with Nokia Technologies.

Jyri has held various management positions in Nokia and hasbroad technology and leadership expertise in the fields of

multimedia, user interaction and user experience, softwareapplications and platforms. Since last July, he has been headingthe imaging business for Nokia Technologies.

Jyri’s professional and academic interests include audio,imaging and video technologies, virtual audiovisualenvironments, digital audio signal processing, musicalacoustics, and multimedia content analysis and processing. Heis the author or co-author of over 60 technical articles publishedin international journals and conferences.

Simon Walker is an accomplished media innovator with overtwenty years’ experience in the digital and creative industries.

As leader of the global strategy and business developmentfunctions at the BBC, EMI Music and EMAP plc, Simon has beenat the heart of the media and entertainment business’stransformation to digital, from writing the BBC’s first ever video-on-demand strategy, to helping create Rightster, the world’sbiggest multi-platform video network.

Simon deploys his unique mix of commercial, creative,innovation and M&A skills across a portfolio of major mediagroups and disruptive new ventures, with a particular focus ononline video.

Simon sits on a number of advisory boards and supportscharities Dramatic Need, which brings the creative arts tounderprivileged children, and First Story, which fosterscreativity and literacy in schoolchildren. Simon holds an MAfrom Keble College, Oxford and lives in Little Venice, London.

Simon Walker

Reijo Ensio Kiilunen gained his first experience of artsmanagement at the Helsinki Festival in 1979-80. Hesubsequently became a founding member of the HelsinkiConcert Agency, with responsibilities including concertorganisation for Finnish performers abroad and bringingforeign performers to Finland. This experience stood Reijo ingood stead as concert manager of the Joensuu Song Festival,where he organised a major series of events to mark the 150thanniversary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

In 1985, Reijo founded the record magazine Seitsemäs taivas[Seventh heaven] and became a founding member the recordcompany Ondine Oy, which was started under the auspices ofthe Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. He is currently the

managing director of Ondine, with responsibilities for A&R,production design, publicity, advertising and marketingplanning, and export planning and management. Since 2009,Ondine has been part of the Naxos group.

Reijo studied music education at the Sibelius Academy. Heholds numerous elected positions, including Chairman of thecompetition committee for the Mirjam Helin InternationalSinging Competition, and is a member of the board for FazerArtists Management. He was previously a member of theFinnish Cultural Foundation committee (1998-2005) as well asa member of the Supervisory Board (2005-2014).

Reijo Ensio Kiilunen

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Marie-Hélène Bernard will join the St. Louis Symphony asPresident and CEO in July 2015, following more than eight yearsas Executive Director and CEO of the Handel and Haydn Societyin Boston.

During her tenure at the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H),Marie-Hélène led the organisation through an important artisticand financial revival towards the celebration of its 200thanniversary in 2015. Under her leadership, H+H establisheditself as an essential educational provider and partner to youthand music educators in Massachusetts, and as a national leaderin early music. She also oversaw a substantial growth of H+H’saudience; a budget and an endowment that grew to almostdouble their original size; partnership programmes in thecommunity that fostered diversity and inclusion; the release ofeight titles on the CORO label, one international tour, twodomestic tours and a regular broadcast series on WCRB.

Marie-Hélène began her career in orchestra management in1996, having won a fellowship with the League of AmericanOrchestras that included residencies with the New YorkPhilharmonic and Minnesota Orchestra. Over the followingeight years, Marie-Hélène served as Chief of Staff, ProjectManager, and Orchestra Manager for the PhiladelphiaOrchestra; Orchestra Manager for the Cleveland Orchestra,where she managed touring activities and worked with MusicDirectors Christoph von Dohnányi and Franz Welser-Möst; andPresident and CEO of the Canton Symphony Orchestra.

A Québec native, Marie-Hélène studied law at the University ofMontréal and holds a Master’s degree in arts management fromConcordia University. She practised corporate, tax, andintellectual property law for six years in Canada and remains amember of the Québec Bar Association. Marie-Hélène playsviola da gamba and is President-elect of Early Music America.

Eva Skotte Ollikainen is a frequent guest conductor atnumerous Nordic orchestras. Her recent highlights includeperformances with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, NewJapan, Brussels and Pannon Philharmonic orchestras. She madeher debut at Berlin’s Philharmonie in 2010 with the DeutschesSymphonie-Orchester Berlin.

This season Eva is looking forward to starting her Beethovencycle with the Jönköpings Sinfonietta and performances of theNutcracker at Dresden’s Semperoper. She is also returning to theRoyal Swedish Opera for the acclaimed Juliet and Romeo byMats Ek, and to Turku Philharmonic for a concert with Bruckner’sSymphony No. 6.

Eva earned her master's degree in conducting from the SibeliusAcademy studying under Prof. Leif Segerstam and Prof. JormaPanula. She also holds a master's degree in piano performancefrom the Sibelius Academy.

Having won the international Jorma Panula conductingcompetition in 2003, Eva was invited to the conductors'academy of Berlin’s Allianz Cultural Foundation, where she hadthe opportunity to work with the London PhilharmonicOrchestra and Kurt Masur, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestraand Christoph von Dohnányi. Eva was a conducting fellow atTanglewood Music Center in 2006, and received the HuldaPaulo prize for accomplished young musicians in 2009.

Jasper Parrott

Marie-Hélène Bernard

Eva Skotte Ollikainen

Jasper Parrott was born in Stockholm and educated atPeterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history and played theoboe and recorder. He joined the foreign department of theconcert agency Ibbs and Tillett in 1965, leaving four years laterto start his own business HarrisonParrott Ltd, of which heremains Executive Chairman. The company is now one of theleading international classical music agencies, with a wide rangeof activities encompassing artists’ management, orchestraltouring, concert promotion, festival development, sponsorshipand arts consultancy. Over the last 30 years HarrisonParrott hasexpanded and consolidated its work throughout the world andhas been a pioneer in developing opportunities for classicalmusic, especially in Japan, China and South Asia.

HarrisonParrott has arranged innumerable tours for many of thegreat international symphony orchestras and has also beenengaged with many special projects and consultancies. In 1991,Jasper was one of the three Executive Directors of the JapanFestival, of which HarrisonParrott was a joint managing agent.

In the same year the company also managed the Festival ofSwitzerland in Britain in celebration of the 700th anniversary ofthe founding of the Swiss Confederation. From 1999, Jasper hewas part of the core management group appointed by theNorwegian Society of Composers to devise and presentMAGMA Berlin, a 10-day Festival of Nordic music that took placein 2002. In 2004, working with the Istanbul Foundation for Artsand Culture, Jasper headed up a successful 10-day Festival ofTurkish Arts in Berlin.

As a consultant, Jasper has acted for the Schleswig-HolsteinMusik Festival, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, theEnsemble Intercontemporain and the Czech Philharmonicorchestras, and was a member of the Advisory Board of thePolar Prize in Stockholm.

Jasper is the co-author with Vladimir Ashkenazy of Beyond Frontiers (Collins 1984), which has been translated intoseven languages.

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Margaret Yang is the CEO of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, a mid-sized orchestra that she restructured to become one of the majorperforming arts forces in Hong Kong today.

Margaret is a music graduate of the Chinese University of HongKong (CUHK) and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in ArtsManagement and Policy from the City University of London. Shehas worked with symphony orchestras, arts festivals and artistmanagement companies both cities.

Margaret also holds a law degree from the University ofCambridge. She practised as a solicitor specialising in intellectual

property for a few years before returning to the arts to take upher present position.

Margaret is an adjunct lecturer on the MA in Music programmeat CUHK where she has been teaching a course for artsadministrators since 2008. This year, she has been invited to jointhe Board of CMHK (Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong), addingto her role at the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP)where she has been Secretary of the Board since 2013.

Margaret became the first Hong Kong fellow of the UK’s CloreLeadership Programme in 2009.

Margaret Yang

Collective X is a networking forum for young professionals workingin the field of classical music. It was founded in Helsinki in 2012.

The group holds several meetings per year, each one focusing onan interesting topic determined by its members. Experts are invitedto speak and boost discussion among the group members.

Collective X events take place in an informal atmosphere and areopen to anyone from the sector. Participants are encouraged to ask‘stupid’ questions, reconsider the self-evident, and look at thingsfrom new perspectives.

Apart from the agreed themes, Collective X meetings don’t includeany other prescribed or formal programme. The aim is to develop astrong professional profile with regular, high-calibre events.

Opportunities for professional development, networking and thedeepening of peer support are key outcomes for participants.

Finnish cultural life also benefits through broadening the skills,knowledge and understanding of these young professionals.

Members of Collective X – please visit the IAMA Conferencewebsite for full biographies:

• Johanna Råman, Administrative Director, Our Festival• Sanna Nyyssölä, Artist Manager, Sublime Music Agency• Olli Brummer, Director, Fazer Artists’ Management

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Neeme Ots was born in Tallinn and started to play the trumpet at the age ofsix under the guidance of his father Aavo Ots. He is currently completing hisMaster's degree at the Sibelius Academy with Simo Rantanen. In 2013, hespent an Erasmus year studying with Prof. Enrique Rioja-Liz at the MadridConservatory.

Neeme Ots has won prizes at several national and internationalcompetitions and has participated in masterclasses by Neeme Birk, ManuelBlanco Gómez-Limón, Adan Delgado Illada, Reinhold Friedrich, MauriceAndré, Johann Gansh and others. He has performed as a soloist with theTallinn Chamber Orchestra and Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, andhas participated as principal trumpet in several prestigious youthensembles: the World-wide Youth Brass Band, German-ScandinavianSymphony Orchestra, Baltic Youth Symphony Orchestra and the SymphonyOrchestra of the Sibelius Academy.

Neeme has performed at the Abu Dhabi Emirates Palace, Finlandia Hall,Helsinki Music Centre and the Berlin Philharmonie, and has played severaltimes with the Spanish National Orchestra, the European Royal Ensembleand the Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed at theInternational Trumpet Days in Tallinn, Tallinn Music Week, Tallinn ChamberMusic Festival, the Estonian Concert Agency's project ‘Young Talents’ andother internationally acclaimed Estonian events.

Neeme Ots will be accompanied by pianist Irina Zahharenkova

Saturday 25th April, 12:30-13:00

Vivaldi / J.S. BachTrumpet Concerto in D major

Rodion Shchedrin Imitating Albeniz

Astor PiazzollaOblivion

Neeme OtsPresented by the Pille Lille Music Foundation

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26th IAMA International ConferenceTivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Safe travels home andwe hope to see you atanother IAMA event inthe future

Aleski Malmberg, Conference Chairman and Director, Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux

7-9 April 2016 10-12 November 2016IAMA Toronto 2016 presented incollaboration with Ontario Presents

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specialthanksIAMA Board of Directors The Executive ChairAino Turtiainen-Visala (Fazer Artists' Management, Finland) Deputy Chair Helen Sykes (Helen Sykes Artist Management, UK) Treasurer Christian May (Melos Konzerte, Austria)

Board MembersHannes de Vries (GE#Sharp Artists Events, Netherlands)Monica Felkel (Young Concert Artists Inc., USA) Maike Fuchs (Karsten Witt Musik Management, Germany)Gaetan le Divelec (Askonas Holt, UK)Ben Rayfield (Rayfield Allied, UK) Carola Reul (Konzertdirektion Schmid, Germany) David Sigall (Ingpen & Williams Ltd, UK) Masami Shigeta (Aspen, Japan)Jacob Soelberg (Nordic Artists Management, Denmark) Rog Thomson (Hazard Chase, UK)

IAMA StaffAtholl Swainston-Harrison, Chief ExecutiveJenny Hopkinson, Manager: Administration and OperationsMarlena Radaschitz, Manager: Membership and Projects

OfficeWest Wing, Somerset House Strand, London, WC2R 1LA T: +44 20 7379 [email protected]

Music FinlandTuomo Tähtinen, Executive DirectorEmilia Hänninen, Showcase Producer

Conference StaffHannele Eklund, Manager, Conference Desk Irina AndersinClaire DelhomJanika FågelAmi HolstiTia NissinenSaila PöysäAida RäihäläElina TapioIngela Waismaa

Thanks also to: Owen Mortimer (brochureproduction, media and advertising); AdrenalineCreative (typesetting and design of the brochure)

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The delegate bags for this year’s IAMA Conference have been produced by Uusix-workshops,an initiative of Helsinki city that prepares unemployed residents for entry or re-entry intothe workforce. All Uusix products are handmade from recycled materials, providingopportunities for participants to learn new craft skills as well as gaining valuable experienceof working in a team. www.uusix.fi

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