Delegates

Creative Arts Manager, The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre.

Graduated from Louis Lumiere's school (French school for cinema and broadcasting industry) in sound engineering, Alexis Pawlak began his carreer at le Periscope as sound technician and stage manager …

Alice Rouffineau has been running cultural and educationnal programmes at Périscope venue in Lyon for four years now.  She coordinates projects involving musicians and people of all kinds (children, seniors …

Curator and CEO of G Livelab Tampere

Pianist and composer. 

Cultural projects manager.

Marketing Director of Improvised Music Company (IMC) in Dublin. 

Aurelie Freoua is a French artist and performer living and working in London.

Communication manager for different concert venues in Lyon (France).

Promotor, co-funder of the Druga Godba organisation, director for jazz & world music at Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana), member of Europe Jazz Network. 

Photographer, designer and writer, co-producer of the Jazz in Birmingham gig guide.

Producer, concert tour manager, promotor, founder of Vapaat äänet. 

Founder and Music Programmer of the "Pardon, To Tu" club in Warsaw.

Musicologist and cultural professional. Since January 2018 she is Head of production of the International Music Festival DRUGA GODBA in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dr Pedro Cravinho researches and writes about jazz, media, and archives. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, and the Keeper of the …

London based Swedish vocalist and composer of considerable repute.

Jazz Danmark.

Coordinator/administrator of EJN since 2013

General Manager of EJN since 2010

Writer, editor in chief for the web magazine salt-peanuts.eu, former editor in chief for the Norwegian jazz magazine Jazznytt, board member of several jazz festivals.

Freelance music journalist, reviwer, translator, musician and rhythm teacher. Since the beginning of 2019 he is Editor in Chief of the German print magazine JAZZTHETIK.

Managing Director, Nasjonal jazzscene – Victoria, Oslo.

CEO at PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading independent charitable funder of new music and talent development.

Karolina Juzwa – coordinator in the Wytwórnia Foundation, manager of the Wytwórnia venue.

Artistic Director of Improvised Music Company (IMC), Ireland’s leading promoter of jazz & ethnic music and a dedicated resource organisation for Irish jazz musicians.

An improvising artist and composer immersed in the jazz and improvised music scene. Whether as a performer, teacher or a producer, her passion lies in the strength of improvised music …

Mercury-nominated and award-winning trumpeter.  

Maaike Wuyts runs the Aubergine Artist Management agency based in Brussel, offfering management, production, promotion, administrative and tour support to some of Belgium’s most talented jazz artists.

An arts broker and creative producer.

Institute of Culture Katowice / Europe Jazz Network.

Mary Wakelam Sloan manages the Jazz Programme at Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham presenting a year round range of concerts and talent development programmes. At Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Mary holds …

Matthew Jacobson is an Irish drummer, composer, bandleader, educator and producer currently based in Dublin.

Musician, songwriter and recording artist as 'Darcy Holmes' living in Birmingham.

 An alternative and jazz music curator, promotor at Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Unbound musics presenter essayist; radio broadcasting expert; columnist; alternative theorist

Danish/Montenegrin musician who has been very active on the international music scene for over a decade.

Natalie South is the Grassroots Project Manager for Attitude is everything, a charity with 18 years of experience supporting non-profit and commercial organisations to make what they do more accessible …

Head of PR and promotion of the Druga Godba festival.

Head manager of the Vortex Jazz Club in London, and label manager at babel label, Oliver Weindling is an inspiring figure on the european scene. 

One of the founders of the Periscope, jazz club and creative artistic scene in Lyon, France. 

Bass, alto and Bb clarinetist, music arranger and writer, with a classical and jazz training background.

Artistic Director of the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, curator of Improvised Contemporary Music and Jazz at Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.

Composer, trombonist and leader of nine-piece brass band outfit Young Pilgrims.

French musician, arranger, composer and improviser, with a unique style and artistic will. In 2017, he set up the 4000 company. 

The president of Helsinki Jazz which runs jaZZanti concert series in Helsinki.

Musician and artist based in Birmingham.

Office manager at Druga Godba, Ljubljana. 

Jazz Cerkno program director.

Communication Manager of Europe Jazz Network. 

Head of Music Service, Services For Education, Birmingham.

Musician, creating in the field of street theatre, music and vocal performances.

Production manager at AJC (Association Jazzé Croisé).

Programme Adviser to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Jazzlines.