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1 N O R D I C M U S I C T R A D E M I S S I O N A P R I L 2 5 – 2 7 L O S A N G E L E S L O S A N G E L E S
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Leifur Björnsson A&R / MARKETING
ALDA MUSIC / ICELAND
+354 773 7129
Alda Music is a catalogue owner of the major-ity of Icelandic music released since the 40’s until now. Amongst shareholders and patrons of the company are Ólafur Arnalds musician and Sölvi Blöndal former member of Quarashi. Alda also releases new Icelandic music along with cherry picked releases from the back cata-logue. Amongst the acts on our current roaster are;GDRN, Hildur, Úlfur Úlfur, Birgir, Jónas Sigurds-son, Singapore Sling.Alda Music also operates it’s own aggregation digital distribution service, and offers digital distribution services to individuals and third parties.
aldamusic.is
Ólafur Páll Torfason CEO
ALDA MUSIC / ICELAND
+354 695 6952
Alda Music is a catalogue owner of the major-ity of Icelandic music released since the 40’s until now. Amongst shareholders and patrons of the company are Ólafur Arnalds musician and Sölvi Blöndal former member of Quar-ashi. Alda also releases new Icelandic music along with cherry picked releases from the back catalogue. Amongst the acts on our current roaster are;GDRN, Hildur, Úlfur Úlfur, Birgir, Jónas Sig-urdsson, Singapore Sling.Alda Music also operates it’s own aggrega-tion digital distribution service, and offers digital distribution services to individuals and third parties.
aldamusic.is
Rasmus Damsholt ARTIST MANAGER
ATC MANAGEMENT / DENMARK
+45 2829 2639
After finishing his BA in Music Management at the Rhythmic Music Conservatorium in 2016, 27 year old Rasmus Damsholt, started his own management company, adding emerg-ing Danish artists such as Lowly, Chinah and Sekuoia to his roster. In 2017 he then joined London based artist management compa-ny ATC Management and is now running the Scandinavian office out of Copenhagen.
www.atcmanagement.com
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Aija Lehtonen SALES & PROMOTION
BAFE’S FACTORY, FINLAND
+358 40 593 9015
Bafe’s Factory is an independent record label and a publisher in Helsinki, Finland. It presents Finnish artists who create their own unique mu-sic targeting into international markets. Bafe’s Factory’s key focus area is music synchroniza-tion. Bafe s Factory is an ”one stop clearance” company. We represent all the rights needed for sync and have separate audio tracks for re-processing.We are also looking for distributors and sub-publishers.Bafe’s Factory’s artists have received excel-lent reviews in the United States (for example World Music Central, RootsWorld, Jazz Weekly, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Premier Guitar, The Recorded A Cappella Review Board ) and a lot of radioplays (for example KXEP, KZYX, KUNM, WFMU, KAOS, WTUL, WRIR, CFUV, KALX, KALW, WMBR, WNMC, WYCE).
A song ”Alku” from Tuuletar’s album, “”Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal””, winner of the Etno-Em-ma (the Finnish equivalent to the Grammy Award) has been placed in Game of Thrones season 7 DVD and Blu-Ray commercial and in the most watched Australian TV drama Wentworth’s grand season finale. We contin-ue our co-operation with Tuuletar and Liquid 5th Productions -studio in USA in order to pro-duce new music targeting for sync produc-tion.Southpaw Steel ‘n’ Twang (SST) band was first Finnish band invited to play at the Interna-tional Steel Guitar Convention in St. Louis. We also recorded the latest album from SST.
BAFE’S FACTORY’S ARTISTS: Tuuletar – Vocal Folk Hop Solju - Vivacious, colourful, earthy, ethereal and genuine music from the far north of Eu-rope: SapmiJ-P Piirainen - Nordic Guitar MusicHelsinki-Cotonou Ensemble - Modern Jazz, Funky Beats and edgy Afrobeat in an inno-vating mannerVilma Timonen Quartet (VTQ) - Urban Kan-tele MusicSubsonic Trio - Pure World Music from Fin-land, Australia and Brazilan at the highest levelSouthpaw Steel’n’Twang (SST) - Sound of son-ic spices - Instrumental, Jazz, Proge, Ameri-can music with lap steel guitarTeho Majamäki – Progressive World Trance - Ambient music produced with classical and ethnic percussion instruments
www.bafesfactory.fi
5 N O R D I C M U S I C T R A D E M I S S I O N A P R I L 2 5 – 2 7 L O S A N G E L E S
Åsa Enström GENERAL COUNSEL
BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
(SCANDINAVIA) AB / SWEDEN
+46 7031 54560
Music lawyer - responsible for the negotiation and review of all contracts and rights clearanc-es for the Nordic office within the BMG group. Handles legal disputes and coordinates local acquisitions and investments. Board member of Stim and Swedish MPA. Interested in strate-gic questions within PROs and technical and digital development, such as AI and blockchain etc.
BMG is a worldwide music company with both publishing and record label.
www.bmg.com
Ruben Nesse CEO/OWNER
BRILLIANCE / NORWAY
+47 9808 0349
Brilliance is a music company founded in Nor-way in 2010 with offices in Bergen and Lon-don. Our goal is to discover and present new brilliant music through talent management and label services. We also have a singles club that releases new singles from up and coming acts and a PR division offering pan-Scandina-vian PR services. Currently presenting acts like Tuvaband, Kommode, Intertwine, Novo Amor, Misty Coast
www.brilliance.no
Peo Nylén CREATIVE DIRECTOR
COSMOS MUSIC PUBLISHIN /
SWEDEN
+46 7058 69088
Cosmos Music is a leading independent mu-sic company, with label office, publishing of-fice and studio complex with seven writing rooms in central Stockholm. The publishing side represents over half a million songs from companies such as Concord/Imagem, Bud-demusic, Mute Song, Bucks and many more, as well as a quickly growing local catalogue, including big hits in various countries. Cosmos Music’s company history dates back to 1966, when in-house imprint Amigo was founded in Stockholm and we are proud to have been the record label of choice for hundreds of artists ever since. Today, Cosmos Music is a digitally focused and 100% independent Swedish mu-sic company with an international outlook. We invest heavily into A&R and our global network of close distribution partners, marketing teams, publicists and radio pluggers provides us with a worldwide reach.
www.cosmos-music.com
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Robin Jenssen VICE PRESIDENT &
GENERAL MANAGER
EKKO MUSIC RIGHTS EUROPE /
SWEDEN
+46 7072 26770
In 2005 Jenssen co-founded the renowned writ-ing and production team Dsign Music. Since the start they have been involved in more than 200 releases worldwide resulting in 33 US Bill-board No 1’s, over 25 million records sold, an array of international No 1’s and Top 10’s. Pio-neers of K-POP and J-POP smash hits, cutting edge writing and production, winner of numer-ous awards across the globe and so forth - the list goes on and on! The smash hit and No.1 single for Ricky Martin “Vente Pa’Ca” has 1,4 billion views on YouTube and more than 277 million streams on Spotify, earning Dsign Music a SESAC Latin Award in 2017 and 2 nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards in 2017 (Song of The Year, Album of The Year).Trondheim Song:Expo was founded by Jens-sen in 2011 and is known for being “Europe’s biggest songwriting camp” with 15 studios and 100 songwriters/producers attending every year. This writing camp is later also arranged in
other cities such as Seoul, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Aarhus.In 2017 Jenssen and his business partner Pelle Lidell (former European A&R Executive for Universal Music Publishing Ltd UK) launched the new music publishing company EKKO Music Rights, backed by powerful Korean music company S.M. Entertainment, and its recently launched sister company, CTGA Co. Ltd. EKKO is the result of a long-standing idea from Korean leading music business executive and billionaire Lee Soo-man, founder and former Chairman of S.M. Entertainment.Jenssen has so far had a long and success-ful career as manager and music business entrepreneur on the international scene. He is a pioneer in the K-Pop world where his clients Dsign Music to date, are responsible for multi-million sales and some of the most iconic and commercially successful hits in K-Pop’s history. Jenssen is a very experienced entrepreneur and music publisher – known internationally for his excellent strategic and entrepreneurial skills. Jenssen is also involved in other ventures such as musicals, music tech and mobile applications.
www.ekkomusicrights.com
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Eero Tolppanen HEAD OF A&R
ELEMENTS MUSIC / FINLAND
EERO.TOLPPANEN@
ELEMENTSMUSIC.FI
+358 40 837 6664
I’m the Head of A&R and co-owner of Elements Music, the leading independent Finnish mu-sic publishing company. We represent sever-al internationally focused writers, producers & artists including, for example, the highly sought after songwriter AXEL EHNSTRÖM. Axel co-wrote the platinum selling hit “Bad Ideas” for Alle Farben which reached German airplay chart #1 for 4 weeks. He also recently had 3 songs on Lost Frequencies’ debut album, in-cluding the single “All or Nothing” and the song “James has changed” on Phoebe Ryan’s latest EP.
On the producer/artist front, we represent, among others: ALEX MATSSON, a DJ/producer whose debut single “UFO” certified double platinum and is soon to release his debut EP via Sony Music.ALISKY, a talented producer with a unique electronic sound. Signed to Warner and cur-rently preparing his debut EP.LEO JUPITER. His co-write and production on Reino Nordin’s “Antaudun” was the biggest Finnish hit of 2017 and certified 3 x platinum, winning the Emma award (Finnish Grammy) for the most streamed song of the year.We are looking for collaborations and oppor-tunities for our artists, writers & producers.
www.elementsmusic.fi
Jesper Thorsson CEO
EXPORT MUSIC SWEDEN AB /
SWEDEN
+46 72 586 50 60
Export Music Sweden works at an industry level to help export Swedish music to the world. We support songwriters, musicians, recording art-ists and companies within the music industry to go global.Jesper Thorsson is the CEO of Export Music Sweden AB since the relaunch five years ago. Export Music Sweden is an organization found-ed by the music industry associations IFPI (re-cord companies), STIM (composers and pub-lishers) and SAMI (artists and musicians).Prior to this Jesper started the department ADA Nordic at Warner Music and later becomame the Director of International Labels. Before that he was responsible for the Nordic market at the venerable label Roadrunner Records at Bonnier Amigo Music Group and was also a part of the European A&R team at Roadrunner. Jesper has in total 20 years of experience of services in the music industry within sales, mar-keting, export, A&R and merchandise.
www.exportmusicsweden.org
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Hildur Maral LABEL MANAGER
FIGUREIGHT RECORDS / DENMARK
(/ICELAND/USA)
+45 3168 6830
Hildur Maral has worked in the music industry for 13+ years. Starting her career in her teens as a music radio show host for Iceland’s Nation-al Broadcasting Service and music critic, she has since tried her hand at most aspects of the industry in various positions such as artist and PR management. In the last couple of years she has specialized in festival management - working some of the world’s biggest festivals such as Coachella (USA), Roskilde Festival (DK) - and label management for renown label Bed-room Community (IS) and the newly founded figureight (IS/USA); a label & artist collective founded by Shahzad Ismaily, a multi-instru-mental and multi-disciplinary performer.The label is a home for interior, shy, and hid-den works, celebrating musicians rare and unique. Many of figureight’s artists have been sidemen to better known performers, and are
now releasing their solo ventures through the label where they are nurtured and respected as musicians in a holistic, artist-friendly ap-proach. figureight values sincerity, curiosity and artistic vision. The label is connected to Figure 8 studio (Brooklyn, NYC) where most of the label releases pass through in some way and the artists frequently record and perform live together. The roster may be di-verse, set apart by musical and geographical distances, but is bound together in creative and expressive spirit. figureight releases out now:
Indridi (IS) - Makril JFDR (IS) - Brazil Aaron Roche (US) - HaHa HuHu Gyda Valtysdottir (IS) - EpicycleÚlfur (IS) - Arborescence
www.figureightrecords.com
Heidi Luukkonen COORDINATOR, CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES & COMMUNICATIONS
CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND
+1 424 298 0493
Based in Los Angeles. In charge of trade and cultural export in the creative industries for Finnish artists and companies. Main areas of focus are music, film industry & gaming indus-tries and country branding. My job is to make Finland the next cool spot to visit and invest in! Responsible for coordinating trade missions and linking the US and Finnish creative com-panies and people. Media contact & social media guru for the Consulate.The mission of the Finnish Consulate in LA is to find business opportunities for Finnish compa-nies and assist them in entering the US market. My background is in media culture & commu-nications, but my lifelong passion has always been music. When I’m not working, you can find me at various live music venues in Los Angeles spotting new talent. I also manage a local punk band called Johnny Madcap & The Distractions.
www.formin.fi
9 N O R D I C M U S I C T R A D E M I S S I O N A P R I L 2 5 – 2 7 L O S A N G E L E S
Saara Konttinen ADMINISTRATION AND
LICENSING MANAGER
HMC PUBLISHING / WARNER MUSIC
FINLAND OY / FINLAND
SAARA.KONTTINEN@
WARNERMUSIC.COM
+358 40 562 2441
HMC Publishing is the publishing arm of War-ner Music Finland (worldwide admin by War-ner/Chappell). HMC is one of the most current publishers in Finland at the moment, with over 30 writers, such as Joonas Angeria, Henri “MGI” Lanz, Patric Sarin and Ilkka Wirtanen. HMC’s writers are currently working with acts like Julie Bergan (Warner Music Norway), Isac Elliot (Sony Music), Phoebe Ryan (Columbia Records), SAARA (Universal Music), Benji & Fede (Warner Music Italy), Irama (Warner Music Ita-ly) and Alma (Warner Music Finland). Although HMC Publishing is a part of Warner Music Fin-land, we are actively working with all other la-bels and publishers.
www.warnermusic.fi
Sigtryggur Baldursson MANAGING DIRECTOR
ICELAND MUSIC / ICELAND
+354 697 6425
Iceland Music is the music export office in ice-land, and takes care of all sorts of networking initiatives and information on the icelandic musical community, but also is responsible for educational programs and grants and runs two websites, one in icelandic, www.uton.is and one in english, www.icelandmusic.is
www.icelandmusic.is
Lars Jakob Rudjord CEO
FYRLYD AS / NORWAY
+47 958 04 846
Fyrlyd Records is an indie label, music compa-ny and publishing house based on the South-west coast of Norway. We are a composer/musician driven label, and create and release our own music with a distinct, unique Nordic sound. Our roster primarily includes folk-in-spired singer-songwriter Ingvild Koksvik and neoclassical pianist-composer Lars Jakob Rudjord.
www.fyrlydrecords.com
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Soffía Kristín Jónsdóttir OWNER - GENERAL MANAGER
ICELAND SYNC MANAGEMENT EHF /
ICELAND
+354 867 8723 AND +19179729446
Iceland Sync is an Iceland and Los Angeles based talent management, concert promotion and publishing company that: a) helps devel-op and launch Icelandic artists internationally b) manage artists, songwriters, composers and bands as well as their catalogs c) spreads love and joy all around the world through music.
Founded by: Soffía Kristín JónsdóttirSteinunn Þóra Camilla Sigurðardóttir
Mission: Our mission is to synchronize Icelandic arts and music world-wide by being the bridge between artists and the industry on a glob-al market.Vision: Our vision is to be the go-to company for Icelandic artists ready to advance their career internationally.About Soffia: Soffia Kristin Jonsdottir is an Art-ist Manager, Concert Producer, Music Rights
Activist and Film Producer currently based in Iceland. Surrounded by music from birth, Sof-fia was raised in a musical family where ev-eryone played or had an active involvement in the local music scene; her love of music and entertainment took hold in her early teens and continued to grow into a true passion ac-companied by an ambition to build her repu-tation within the Entertainment Industry.
In 2005, her studies in Business Administra-tion at the Commercial College of Iceland led to a potent fusion of business and artistic abilities well suited for a career in today’s mu-sic and motion picture industries. Her indefat-igable work ethic, 10 years later, has served to earn her a name as an internationally re-spected entrepreneur and business woman.
Soffia’s yen for challenge led her to the U.S. in 2012, where she added a Bachelor s degree in Music Business from Full Sail University. In
2014 she founded talent management com-pany Iceland Sync alongside Camilla Stones with top shelf musical talents.
Today our roster includes Ragga Gröndal, Auður, AFK, Svala and Blissful alongside a larger roster of artists we represent for sync and publishing opportunities. More info on www.icelandsync.com.
www.icelandsync.com
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Glenn Larsen HEAD OF EVERYTHING
INDIANER MANAGEMENT / NORWAY
Indianer is one of Norways most finest artist managements. Indianer Management is an international management company based in Oslo, Norway, with a huge network across the globe. Our management roster today consists of Highasakite, Bernhoft, Siv Jakobsen, Aman-da Tenfjord, Pom Poko, Team Me, Thea & The Wild and Marie Munroe.
www.indianer.nu
Saqib Hassan A&R / PARTNER
KONTRA AGENCY / DENMARK
2017 : Launched Kontra Agency•A&R for artist “Phlake” - Kontra Agency / Sony Denmark•A&R for artist “Benal” - Kontra Agency / Sony Denmark•A&R plus mix/mastering for artist “Marvelous Mosell”Roster : Benal | Phlake | Yulez | Dada | Marvelous Mosell | Brave | Lærke Emilie | Reem |2015-2016 : teacher at the Rhythmic Conservatory Copenhagen2012 - 2016 : A&R Sony Music Denmark1996 -2011 : •FOH Medina / Malk de Koijn•composer, producer, recording & mix engi-neer Outlandish, Burhan G and many more•signed to BMG UK publishing”
Colm O Herlihy LABEL MANAGER
MENGI/BEDROOM COMMUNITY /
ICELAND
+354 832 8607
Bedroom Community is an Icelandic record label/collective formed in 2006 by Valgeir Sig-urðsson, with Nico Muhly and Ben Frost, later adding Sam Amidon, Daníel Bjarnason, Puzzle Muteson, Paul Corley, Nadia Sirota and James McVinnie to the intimate roster. 2015 saw two new additions to the family being: Emily Hall & Jodie Landau and wild Up. Like-minded, yet diverse individuals from dif-ferent corners of the globe all creatively orbit around an inconspicuous building and its in-habitants on the outskirts of Reykjavík Iceland - Green-house Studios - where the music is mostly creat-ed.
www.bedroomcommunity.net
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Sindri Astmarsson CEO / ARTIST MANAGER
MID ATLANTIC ENTERTAINMENT /
ICELAND
+354 866 0309
Sindri Astmarsson is a manager from Iceland and fonder of Mid Atlantic Entertainment the largest mgmt company in Iceland. Sindri who has a background as a DJ, Radio host and event planner turned to management in 2013 when he started to manage then unknown band called Kaleo. Kaleo soon became the most popular band in the domestic market and started to look at international opportu-nities. They later signed in the US and signed with another mgmt company. When Sindri re-turned to Iceland he started Mid Atlantic and signed a couple of new artists. He funded a couple of EP’s including Axel Flovent’s Forest
Fires (over 30 million streams) and quickly became a dominant force in the Icelandic market. Working with act’s like Agent Fresco, Axel Flovent, Glowie, Ulfur Ulfur and many more he now runs a office of 5 people and a roster of 18 act’s. With little infrastructure the Icelandic market is challenging and MAE works in management, bookings, sync licens-ing, distribution and promotion. Last year Sindri worked with Glowie who signed with Columbia in the UK and has now just left that project in the hands of Maverick mgmt. Sindri is now working with the amazingly talented Bríet that is turning heads on both sides of the Atlantic and has massive major label in-terest.
www.midatlantic.is
Katariina Sorsa EXPORT MANAGER
MUSIC FINLAND / FINLAND
EU +358 40 561 1150
US +1 (747) 220-5976
Katariina works as Export Manager at Music Finland specializing in export projects in the field of songwriting and the publishing industry as well as sync and film composing. She pro-duces songwriting camps Song Castle, A-Pop Castle and Song Hotel, and works with Finnish music industry events such as Music & Media Finland. Katariina is also project manager on the export offices’ behalf for the Nordic Music Trade Mission to the US.
Music Finland promotes the awareness and success of Finnish music at home and abroad. It creates and manages a wide variety of ser-vices for the Finnish music industry; marketing programs, events, networking opportunities, training, consultancy, support, research, infor-mation and funding programs.
www.musicfinland.fi
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Riku Salomaa HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL
MUSIC FINLAND / FINLAND
+358 40 705 2606
Music Finland promotes the awareness and suc-cess of Finnish music at home and abroad. It creates and manages a wide variety of services for the Finnish music industry; marketing pro-grams, events, networking opportunities, train-ing, consultancy, support, research, informa-tion and funding programs. After specialising in the markets of the UK and German-speaking Europe, Riku Salomaa now leads Music Fin-land’s export team.
www.musicfinland.fi
Nina Finnerud HEAD OF UK OFFICE
MUSIC NORWAY / NORWAY
+44 78357 53030
Music Norway is the official export office for Norwegian Music. Addressing the needs of the music industry, artists, ensembles and or-ganisations, Music Norway offers funding pro-grams, competence building, facilitation of networking arenas and consultations. Music Norway develops programs that fit a digital and global music industry, based on data re-trieval, analysis and music export statistics.
www.musicnorway.no
Carolina Echeverri SENIOR ADVISOR
MXD - MUSIC EXPORT DENMARK /
DENMARK
+45 4271 1164
Supported by the Ministry of Culture in Den-mark, MXD supports the export of Danish rock and pop music both financially and through expertise. It also produces and project manag-es export projects as well as collecting, evalu-ating and sharing market intelligence.
www.mxd.dk
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Steffen Strojeck FOUNDER - PUBLISHER/MANAGER
OFFICIAL MUSIC / DENMARK
+45 6021 0303
Official Music is a Copenhagen bassed music collective, which started in 2017. In music terms a management, publishing and label.The roster includes only new and young artists, writers and producers, without any history in the music business. Immediately they established a name for them themself in the Danish music business.With a great deal of attention especially in Denmark, UK and US, for some of their self-re-leased singles that went viral, and several writ-ten and produced tracks that made it into the top 10.
www.officialmusic.dk
Stefan Cristopher Petersen MANAGER
OUT OF OFFICE / DENMARK
+45 4019 8135
Copenhagen based fulltime manager, which has been managing the Danish duo Phlake for the last four years. Five Danish Grammys, two albums and well over 100 million streams later, he and the band are now aiming to conquer Europe with their Pop/R&B hybrid.Recently he signed with the composer and singer, School of X – and together are they working on developing the acts woozy elec-tronic pop universe.Stefan has an educational background from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenha-gen, where he attended the elite education, Music Management. He has within the last 5 years been working for Warner Music Den-mark as a product manager, and afterwards co-founded the Danish talent department within Scandinavia’s biggest social influencer network, Splay Networks.
Andres Dahl FOUNDER & MANAGER
PAPERCLIP AS / NORWAY
+47 9203 8684
After graduating with a master degree in BA from NHH in 2016, I decided to pursue my dream of being a manager on a full-time basis. Therefore, I started Paperclip together with the highly acclaimed firm MADE, who manage acts like Aurora and Sigrid. I func-tion as managing director and music manag-er in Paperclip. We’re focused solely on elec-tronic music, and work with both Norwegian and international talent. Our roster consists of the following artists: Atella, Cavego, Didrik Thulin, Gundelach, LUXXURY, Moullinex, Satin Jackets and Xinobi. Since the start our artists have released with labels such as Anjuna, As-tralwerks, Asylum, Atlantic, Capitol, Eskimo, K7!, Ministry of Sound, Sony, Spinnin’, Ultra, and Terrible. Paperclip is in 2018 hosting sev-eral writing camps e.g. BergenElectronic with Ultra Music Publishing. Andres was named the newcomer of the year by Music Norway in 2017, and he has been featured in magazines like DJ Mag.
www.paperclip.no
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Camilla Taasti ARTIST MANAGER
QUARTERBACK ENTERTAINMENT /
DENMARK
+45 2615 3355
I am an artist manager at Quarterback Enter-tainment (L.O.C., Snavs, KING, Baby In Vain). I do day-to-day/assistant management on Snavs (electronic act) and Baby In Vain (rock band) and I manage KING (singer/songwriter, pop artist).
www.qbackent.com
Haraldur Levi Gunnarsson LABEL MANAGER
RECORD RECORDS / ICELAND
+354 865 2360
Haraldur Levi (Halli) is the founder of the Ice-landic record label Record Records and man-ager of Icelandic artist Júníus Meyvant.Record Records is an Icelandic independent record label based in Reykjavík. Its initial kickoff as a pocket-sized distribution compa-ny for small up and coming artists based in the great Reykjavík area was in late 2007.It’s roster includes artists such as Of Mon-sters and Men, Mammút, Júníus Meyvant and many more.
www.recordrecords.com
Mona Aghai CO-FOUNDER & GM
RMV PUBLISHING / SWEDEN
+46 7048 16081
RMV Publishing was founded september 2016 by Mona Aghai, Ludvig Andersson and Benny Andersson. The company is focusing on work-ing and developing new writers and produc-ers in their studios at Skeppsholmen in Stock-holm. Besides Ludvig himself, RMV Publishing also work with Natali Noor (producer, writer, artist) and Joel Gunnarsson aka Ourchives (writer and artist).
www.rmvpub.com
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Miika Särmäkari FOUNDER
RUTILUS MUSIC / FINLAND
+358 40 0814 144
Rutilus is a boutique music publishing & pro-ducer management company from Helsinki, Finland. Our songwriters and beat makers rep-resent forward thinking modern urban music and hip-hop. We’ve recently worked in USA, Austria and Sweden with artists such as G4shi, Bizness Boi, Deniro Farrar and Mavi Phoenix. Rutilus is founded and operated by Finland’s own platinum selling pioneer hip-hop artist Särre, and the company also serves as a label imprint in the for modern urban artists in the Nordic market.
www.rutilusmusic.com
Eva Karman Reinhold CEO
SMILODON/KARMAN I.C. / SWEDEN
+46 7074 68311
Smilodon offers Artist Law & Rights Manage-ment for artists, songwriters, producers and independent companies. Founded in 2004 by Eva Karman Reinhold as a music publishing company and label, we have long experience from the music business. Eva has worked in the music industry since 1991, and as a music lawyer for almost a decade. My LinkedIn-pro-file: www.linkedin.com/in/evakarman/ Our priority act I Am Karate is a female elec-tro pop duo, who’s self-released ‘Bitter’ has clocked close to a million streams on Spotify. Artists/songwriters/producers I Am Karate are just about to release their first three songs since leaving a major label and have, once again, some really great music and control of all rights. I Am Karate official:
www.iamkarate.comwww.smilodon.se
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Laura Littauer ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
SUNDANCE MUSIC / DENMARK
+45 2683 4960
For more than 35 years Sundance Music has released music on the labels Stunt Records and Sundance Records. Quality has always been the hallmark of the company. Sundance works with the very best performers, musicians and composers, using the best recording studios, technicians and producers.Sundance represent a wide range of music genres, but with a focus on jazz, world mu-sic artists and indiepop/rock, stretching the boundaries and building bridges from tradi-tional and modern jazz to sophisticated pop and live recordings, The company has released more than 5.000 tracks, whereof more than half is published with Sundance Publishing.Our mission has always been to break new ground and reaching new music lovers each year, by identifying fresh talents and bringing them to expanding audiences. This, of course, is in addition to maintaining our high standard of more traditional jazz music that our loyal
listeners continue to enjoy. We gently push the listener to new emotional heights while enjoying both the “old” and “new,” as well as the familiar and exotic.Just as music can completely engulf our at-tention, it can also act as a pleasant and subtle background atmosphere, providing listeners with a unique opportunity to explore emotions. Our music succeeds as a marvelous sonic tapestry with formidable musicianship, superior compositions, poetic prose, and en-chanting vocals. Regardless of one’s relation-ship to the world of jazz, it’s impossible to go wrong here!Our music has been synched to the critically acclaimed and awardwinning Danish TV Se-ries (The Killing, Borgen, Rejseholdet, Ørnen and so on) as well as to American Series and International films. We offer high quality mu-sic to professionals in advertisment, series, movies corporations etc. with transparent license conditions.Our current high profile artists are Sinne Eeg & Kira Skov. Kira has a new album release in March feat. Bonnie Prince Billy and Sinne Eeg is currently touring USA and Europe and re-ceives amazing reviews all over for her recent release “Dreams”.
But there are so many more worth men-tioning: Hanne Boel, Mikkel Nordsø, Claus Hempler, Dicte Westergaard Madsen, Kath-rine Windfeld, Marilyn Mazur, Ridin’ Thumb, Dorado Schmitt, Rudy Smith, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Pieranunzi, Aaron Parks, Scott Hamil-ton, Harry Allen, Diego Figueiredo, Eliel Lazo a.o.Furthermore, Sundance represent a record store, a mail order company and a concert venue and we are a distributor in Denmark for international jazz labels, such as ECM, ACT, Fresh Sound, High Note a.o. Personally I have been with Sundance Music for 9 years, but I almost grew up in the music industry and have been working with all as-pects of the business. Being with an indepen-dent label, you get to work with every aspect of the company, which have been of great use being on the board of IFPI Denmark, MPO and Gramex. Educationally I have a master’s in business administration and commercial law.
www.sundance.dk
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Sara Maria Skarpaas CATALOG MANAGER
SONY MUSIC NORWAY / NORWAY
+47 9283 9340
I started as a Catalog Manager for Sony Music Norway in January, and working proactively with sync for our local roster is an important part of my new role. Before this, I spent five years in the local department where I worked closely with established and developing acts from all genres, first in promotion and then as a Product Manager. I loved this; however, I have always had a special interest in sync and the synergy between music and picture. So I am very happy for the opportunity to work with music in this context.Some of the acts on our roster are:Maria Mena, Amanda Delara, Alfred Hall, CLMD, Kygo, Kid Astray, DePresno, Bearson, Alan Walker, Ina Wroldsen, Christel Alsos, Ryt-meklubben, Loveless, Madcon, WNDR, Jesper Jenset, Nils Petter Molvær, SJUR, Davai, Auto-laser, KDL, BVD KULT, Marcus & Martinus, Chris-tiane, Unge Ferrari, Matilda, Big Bang, Sigrid (local rights), AURORA (local rights). I also
represent artist catalog such as Frøder, Elsa & Emilie, Emilie Nicolas, Kindred Fever, Comet Kid, to mention a few.In addition to working in Sony, I am part of a voluntary crew organizing the niche festival Høstsabbat in Oslo every fall.Apart from this, my background is varied. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Man-agement and one in Cultural Project Man-agement, as well as three years of Music Production. Then one year of International Development Studies with fieldwork in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, one year living in Costa Rica and courses in Journalism and as a Massage Therapist.Personally, I have always been a passionate lover of both music, drawing, lyrics and ar-chitecture. I write songs and used to play the guitar and bass as well as experiment with electronic music. Other interests are pho-tography, hiking, traveling and skiing in the winter. And surfing (the conditions are a bit colder in Norway than in L.A., though!) Back in Oslo I have a fiancé and a 14 months old son, who is a really cool little guy!
www.sonymusic.no
Jarkko Ehnqvist A&R
UNIVERSAL MUSIC FINLAND /
FINLAND
+358 40 778 2031
I`m an A&R at Universal Music and I`ve been working with our local artists but also with our international artists such as Saara, Lenno & Laz Perkins.
www.universalmusic.fi
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NORDIC MUSIC TRADE MISSION INTRODUCES NORDIC MUSIC COMPANIES TO THE LOS ANGELES MUSIC INDUSTRY ON APRIL
25–27, 2018. THE TRADE MISSION IS AN ANNUAL JOINT EFFORT OF NOMEX, THE NETWORK OF NORDIC MUSIC EXPORT OFFICES.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TRADE MISSION, NORDIC SOUNDS SONGWRITING WORKSHOP SHOWCASES THE TALENT OF WOMEN
AND BRINGS UPCOMING ARTISTS, SONGWRITERS AND TRACK-PRODUCERS FROM THE NORDIC REGION TO L.A. FOR
A THREE-DAY SONGWRITING WORKSHOP AND MASTER CLASS SESSION APRIL 24–27.
PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT ARE THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND IN LOS ANGELES, CONSULATE GENERAL OF ICELAND
IN NYC, CONSULATE GENERAL OF SWEDEN IN SAN FRANSISCO, NORWEGIAN CONSULATE GENERAL IN SAN FRANCISCO,
NORDIC[LA], AND THE GUILD OF MUSIC SUPERVISORS. THE PROJECT IS FUNDED BY NORDIC CULTURE FUND.
