Martel Ollerenshaw

Based in London and working internationally, Martel Ollerenshaw is an international arts broker and creative producer. With a wide portfolio of skills and interests, she works actively with artists, organisations and festivals to create and produce work that is pioneering and often genre blurring. Between 2002 and 2017, she worked at Serious International Music Producers/EFG London Jazz Festival, where her portfolio included Seriously Talented, the acclaimed suite of talent development programmes (i.e., Take Five, Take Five Europe and Air Time) for professional musicians working in jazz and improvised music, and now leads her own company Arts & Parts Ltd, which is a flexible vehicle to create and produce performing arts projects of all kinds, with a particular emphasis on music and interdisciplinary work. Martel is the Chair of Pacitti Company/SPILL Festival, the vice president of the Europe Jazz Network, a board member of the Australian Music Centre, and hcmf// (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival).