Mission JAB
Our mission is to be a key platform for promoting Russian jazz abroad and a centre of attraction for international and Russian jazz industry leaders.
Jazz Across Borders
Jazz Across Borders is an annual international forum-fest, held in Saint Petersburg. It is one of the largest professional jazz events in Europe, founded and presided by Igor Butman, the National Artist of Russia.
Jazz Across Borders`20 November 13-14 Saint Petersburg 2020
JAB is
- Jazz event of the year according to the Union of music critics of Russia;
- More than 1000 jazz industry professionals from more than 30 countries annually;
- More than 50 events: lectures, round tables, discussions, seminars, master classes, showcases, gala concerts and concert programs in the city’s iconic clubs.
Speakers and Participants 2020
General Manager of the Trondheim Jazz Festival
General Manager of the Trondheim Jazz Festival
Ernst Wiggo Sandbakk, Norway
Ernst Wiggo Sandbakk is the General Manager of the Trondheim Jazz Festival, a jazz/session-drummer and a teacher.
Sandbakk lives in Trondheim, where he teaches drums and ear training in the Department of Musicat NTNU. He has written several books on drumming, one of which is the Norwegian bestseller ondrumming techniques Hvordan spille moderne trommesett (How To Play a Modern Drum Set).
He is known for a series of recordings, concerts and performances with Dum Dum Boys, ThorgeirStubø, Frode Alnæs, Palle Mikkelborg,Terje Bjørklund, Vigleik Storaas, Bjørn Alterhaug, NilsPetter Molvær, Knut Riisnæs, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Kjersti Stubø, Henning Sommerro and others.
The Trondheim Jazz Festival (TJF) is built around the exciting jazz scene in Trondheim and theworld-renowned jazz course at NTNU’s Department of Music. The Trondheim Jazz festival featuresmainly contemporary Scandinavian and European jazz. The festival puts a particular focus on theinteraction between performers and audience. It also includes Fokus lectures that have become animportant part of the festival.
General Manager of the Nisville Jazz Festival
General Manager of the Nisville Jazz Festival
Ivan Blagoevic, Serbia
Ivan Blagojevic is the founder and the General Manager of the Nisville Jazz Festival (Niš, Serbia).
Ivan graduated from the University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, with a degree in Culture Management. By 1990, he had achieved success as a theater director (he received several awards for Best Director at national festivals of amateur theatres). He is the creative mastermind and the main organizer of the following events: the Nisville Jazz Festival (27 editions), Theater YU Fest (4 editions), the Rock Festival (3 editions), the Festival of Chamber Music (1 edition) and a few other art projects. He was the planner of the New Year’s Eve celebration at the central city square of Niš that brought together 100,000 people to watch 150 artists perform. He is also a publisher of several music editions and literary works, and the author of the essay collection Hod po džezu (Walk on Jazz).
Founder and artistic director A to JazZ festival
Founder and artistic director A to JazZ festival
Peter Dimitrov, Bulgaria
Peter Dimitrov is the founder and artistic director of multiple festivals and events in Bulgaria. He is particularly famous as the director of the annual A to JazZ festival, the General Manager of the corporate events company Unmuted Media LLC, and the director of the International Media Festival Mediamix (2012). He is also the head of the AtoZ Foundation. In 2018, he initiated Sofia’s application to host the European Jazz Conference in 2020.
Dimitrov has also established himself as an experienced and skillful producer: he worked on Bulgarian television as one of the authors of the Recipe for Culture program (2005-2009), co-produced and hosted the music radio program Party East of Heaven (2009-2011), and was the producer of the first “movies in concert” show in Bulgaria – Lord of Rings in Concert (2014-2015).
In 2019, Peter Dimitrov shared his vast expertise acting as the main lector of the Culture Events Management course at Amadeus Art Academy in Sofia.
Executive Director of Music Finland
Executive Director of Music Finland
Kaisa Rönkkö, Finland
Kaisa has been the Executive Director of Music Finland since June 2018. She has a passion to popularize the power of music and develop the international dialogue between premium content, innovative technologies and digital services.
Prior to Music Finland, Kaisa was the head of the Orchestra department at the Finnish National Opera Ballet. She was also the head of the music library and therefore responsible for copyright matters. Kaisa has been Finland’s project manager in large-scale digital opera projects co-funded by Creative Europe Programme.
Kaisa has also been a senior intendant at the Public Information Division of the Defense Command of Finland, an artist manager and partner at Finland’s largest artist management agency, Fazer Artist Management Inc, and an assistant at the Finnish Cultural Institute in Copenhagen.
Kaisa is a Master of Music and Master of Arts Management. She studied at the Sibelius Academy, at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the University of Turku and at the Helsinki University of Applied Sciences. She also holds a piano diploma and is a qualified piano teacher.
Kaisa is a board member of NOMEX (Nordic Music Export), Boardman Management Study Group and Finland Promotion Board, coordinated by the Foreign Ministry of Finland.
Next-generation music company
Next-generation music company
ONErpm
ONErpm is a next-generation music company that provides artists with a full range of digital marketing tools for their career development. The ONErpm team consists of more than 250 music experts in 21 offices worldwide. ONErpm manages one of the largest multi-channel music networks (MCN) on YouTube, ensuring additional income and marketing opportunities for music makers. ONErpm offers more than 200,000 services for artists, labels, publishers, YouTube channels, and other independent content creators. More than 8,000 “premium” artists use the expanded catalog of ONErpm’s label services without losing the copyright to their works. ONErpm’s technologies and expert analysis are open to everyone – from aspiring artists who are just taking their first steps to success, up to established hitmakers who need reliable promotion partners in a rapidly changing music market.
Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival
Tisa Ho, Hong Kong
Tisa Ho is the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, one of the most important arts festivals in Asia with a strong 48-year track record of presenting some of the world’s top artists in all genres of the performing arts covering the full range from classical to contemporary, supported by extensive educational outreach and community engagement activities and events.
During her tenure, the Festival has presented several large-scale international productions, embarked on a programme of exploring new, unconventional venues to extend the Festival experience, and enriched its PLUS programmes of workshops, discussions, and various presentations. In 2019, the Festival launched the new series “No Limits” to promote inclusiveness in the arts.
Tisa was born in China, grew up in Hong Kong and trained in arts management at the City University, London. She has lived in France and in Singapore, where her portfolios included programming Singapore International Arts Festival, managing the Singapore Symphony and Victoria Concert Hall and planning the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.
She currently chairs the Board of the International Society for the Performing Arts, a global network of over 500 arts leaders; and is on the international faculty of the Academy of La Scala in Milan, Italy, and the Lisbon Consortium in Portugal. She has served on the panel of judges for the NOW Festival in Shanghai and the Isang Yun Prize in SouthKorea in 2020, and was also elected to the China Literature and Art Critics Association.
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