Meet & Connect

One of the official networking moments during New Music Conference are the Meet & Connect sessions. Musicians, managers, label owners, media professionals, journalists and festival organisers meet each other in the private networking location. You need to register online for these matchmaking sessions after registering for the conference.

Application online is no longer possible. But there are still some spots left. Please check the desk in our Club to see who’s available.

Session 1, 13:30 – 14:30

Norman Adams

Cellist / Artistic Director, SuddenlyLISTEN, CA  

Silvia Biemans

Account Manager Customer Relations, Sena, NL  

Victoria Johnson

Head of Digital and Audience Engagement, Sound and Music, GB  

Martyna Markowska

Head of Programming, Katowice City of Gardens, PL  

Anne Marqvardsen

Artistic and Festival Director, SPOR festival, DK  

Davo van Peursen

Managing Director, Donemus, NL  

Tim Rutherford-Johnson

Freelance music journalist, GB  

Raphaël Schumann

Co-founder & CEO, Newzik, FR  

Esther Ursem

Managing Director, Musica, BE  

Session 2, 14:45 – 15:45

Davorka Begović

Freelance musicologist and independent curator, HR  

Aaron Cassidy

Director, Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) University of Huddersfield, GB  

Gunnar Karel Másson

Artistic Director, Myrkir Músíkdagar, IS  

Nicolette Schäfer

Dramaturgy & Planning, ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, DE  

Jan Sprengers

Head of Programming and International Department, Performing Arts Fund NL  

Preston Stahly

Artistic & Executive Director, Tribeca New Music, US  

Hans Stekelenburg

Accountmanager Customer Care, Buma/Stemra, NL  

Rianne Wilbers

Singer/composer, NL  

Application online is no longer possible. But there are still some spots left. Please check the desk in our Club to see who’s available.

Through Meet & Connect, New Music Conference strives to build worthwhile and lasting connections between composers, performing musicians and other professionals in the music business. To do this, the Meet & Connect team guides a series of one-on-one talks between selected professionals and applicants. Contacting and selecting is done with the utmost care and to the best of our team’s knowledge and belief. In the event of an excess of Meet & Connect applications, we cannot guarantee that every desired professional will be available.