2023. 03. 07.
Tino Grasselt founded his internationally oriented music agency "Tomato Production" in 2013 with which he supervises bands and musicians in the field of booking, promotion and management. Tino Grasselt regularly participates in worldwide music conferences as an exhibitor, delegate or panel speaker, making him a recognized world music expert. Among the international artists of Tomato Production are many acts from East European countries like Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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David Bali is the Head of Label Relations at Believe for Hungary, Romania and the Balkans, serving labels and the localized team of Label Managers to set and execute strategies and solutions on catalog-related movements regarding digital distribution. Between 2018 and 2021 he was the director of HOTS (Hungarian Oncoming Tunes) contemporary music export office. Besides his activities he also plays bass in a socially sensitive hardcore/punk band Satelles, and he’s the author of Kisterem, a book that compiles the 100 most important underground releases with reviews from the extreme genres between 2000 and 2020.
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Journalist, manager & agent, founder of AMPromotions agency and Music Navigator conference. Assistant professor at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts since 2022. She worked as Head of communications at the Rock for People festival, and was the director of the Nouvelle Prague music conference and showcase festival. She has led workshops, mentoring or was a panelist at WOMEX, Ment Ljubljana, Czech Music Crossroads, MusicMatch, World Music Festival Bratislava and many more.
read more2023. 01. 04.
Ben Mandelson is the Founding Director of WOMEX and a Supervisory Board member for the parent company Piranha Arts, based in Berlin, Germany. WOMEX is the world’s biggest professional music conference, trade fair, and showcase for World, Roots, Folk, Traditional, Local, and Diaspora music – an annual October-end Europe-based event. Ben is also an active musician, a leading freelance world music record producer, and was part of the key group of UK music professionals who launched the ‘world music’ genre.
read more2022. 08. 09.
Dragi Šestić is a music producer, sound engineer, director of music video clips and record label owner. In 1998 he founded the first Bosnian World Music band, Mostar Sevdah Reunion. He rediscovered almost forgotten Gypsy music legends Šaban Bajramović and Ljiljana Buttler-Petrović, produced the debut album of Amira Medunjanin and worked with the famous and only female maqaam star, Farida Ali. He’s worked with many Balkan stars before and his work can be found on many World Music compilations. He has his own record label called Snail Records, founded in 2002.
read more2022. 05. 05.
Producer, musician, ethnomusicologist. General manager of FINISTERRE, management agency, event organiser and label specialized in world music.
He worked on field collecting traditional music and dance in different countries in the world and is now the Artistic Director of several music festivals such as “La Zampogna”; “Errare Humanum Est” “Il passo umile e lieto”.
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