In February 2019 the composer PIA PALME and the musicologist CHRISTINA LESSIAK came together to meet the founder and director of the festival WAVES VIENNA, THOMAS HEHER for a chat. The conversation took place in a café in Vienna Margareten, close to … read more »
Book Presentation „Music Business Research. The Foundations of a New Scientific Discipline“: The very first event of the Waves Vienna Conference 2018 was set in the relaxed atmosphere of Café Weimar. The guests were Sabine Reiter (mica – music austria), Beate Flath … read more »
In September 2018, the Waves Vienna Music Conference, organized by Waves Vienna and Austrian Music Export, will take place for the eighth time. Hundreds of national and international music experts, organizers, label owners, bookers, and musicians will meet during the day for … read more »
Compatibility of Music and Family Life, Sync Rights and The Importance of Music Blogs as first topics of the Waves Vienna Music Conference – Focus Countries 2018: Portugal and Slovakia In September 2018 the Waves Vienna Music Conference, organized by Waves Vienna … read more »
This years “Women’s Networking” panel, which was launched in the last edition of WAVES VIENNA MUSIC FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE, focused on “Women in the Music Business”. Successful women from the music business were invited to Vienna and talked about their careers, gave … read more »
CHRISTOF HUBER from Switzerland is the director of OPENAIR ST. GALLEN, booker of several other festivals and general secretary of YOUROPE. As one of the most important personalities in the European festival scene, he answered the questions of Daniela Derntl from FM4 … read more »
PAUL ELSASSER (Lime Records Management, Great Britain), KATIA GIAMPOLO (Estragon, Italy), KLAUS HOFFMANN (Management Tagträumer, Austria), HANKA PODHORSKÁ (Indies Production) and TOM TANZER (Management Manu Delago, Austria) discussed just what exactly the role of music management is, what an artist has to bring with … read more »
During this year’s club and showcase festival WAVES VIENNA, special attention was paid to the music business in the Czech Republic. Numerous experts were invited to participate under the title “Focus Country Czech Republic”. Three of them took part in the first … read more »
Influencers can be bloggers, journalists, vloggers as well as all other types of digital users. NILOUFAR BEHRADI-OHNACKER from blogrebellen.de, JAN CLAUSEN from the PR agency Factory 92, ANNEMARIE REISINGER-TREIBER (Warner Music Austria) and SANDRA THIER from Diego5 spoke about this subject and … read more »
The seventh edition of Waves Vienna Music Festival & Conference is over and it proved to be a sweeping success! 12.800 visitors including 800 from the global music industry enjoyed 100 concerts from upcoming artists from across Europe and beyond. Wandl – … read more »
