Speakers
Julie Feeney
Andrew Dubber
Steve Lawson
Frank J. Oteri
Thomas Demidoff
Kostas Moschos
Nick Sherrard
Breandán Knowlton
Toner Quinn
Sandra Collins
Julie Feeney
Julie Feeney is an award-winning singer, composer, song-writer, orchestrator, producer, theatre artist and educator. Her sell-out shows on both sides of the Atlantic have received rave reviews and she has released three critically acclaimed albums, each receiving awards and nominations including the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year. With a background as a professional choral singer, she composes all of her songs with full orchestrations, and she is currently composing the libretto and score of her first opera 'BIRD'. She is self-managed and releases her albums through her own label. Her academic degrees include Masters degrees in Music Technologies and Psychoanalysis.
juliefeeney.com
Andrew Dubber
Andrew Dubber is an academic, author, public speaker, blogger, music reviewer, radio and music industry consultant, whisky writer, podcaster, record collector, DJ, broadcaster and record producer. He is Professor of Music Industry Innovation at Birmingham City University, an advisor to Bandcamp and Planzai, manages half a dozen blogs, and is the founder of New Music Strategies - a pan-European music think tank and strategy group.
andrewdubber.com
Steve Lawson
Musician, teacher, lecturer and writer Steve Lawson's main musical outlet is as a solo bass guitarist. He has also collaborated with many artists, resulting in 19 album-length collections of music.
His experiences in using social technologies to tell the stories around music have led to consulting with the Central Office Of Information in the UK Government, The British Council, The Business School at Leicester De Montfort University and with the Department of Social Computing at Imperial College, as well as delivering keynote speeches at conferences organised by PRS For Music, The Musicians Union and JAMES: Joint Audio & Media Education Services.
stevelawson.net
Frank J. Oteri
NYC-based composer/music journalist Frank J. Oteri is the Composer Advocate at New Music USA and the Senior Editor of its web magazine, NewMusicBox. A crusader for new music and breaking down genre barriers, he has written for many publications (including Symphony), served as pre-concert speaker at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has been a radio guest on four continents. Oteri holds two degrees from Columbia University where he served as Classical Music and World Music Director for WKCR-FM. Oteri's own music has been performed in venues including Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and Seattle PONCHO Hall, where John Cage first prepared a piano. His music has been recorded by PRISM Saxophone Quartet and Los Angeles Electric 8, among others. MACHUNAS, his performance oratorio created with visual artist Lucio Pozzi and inspired by the life of Fluxus-founder George Maciunas, received its world premiere in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the 2005 Kristoforo Festival. His most recent composition, Versions of the Truth (2012), was commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation's Charles Kingsford Fund. In 2007, Oteri was the recipient of ASCAP's Victor Herbert Award for his distinguished service to American music as composer, journalist, editor, broadcaster, impresario, and advocate.
www.fjoteri.com
Thomas Demidoff
Thomas Demidoff has extensive experience managing cultural projects, particularly within music. He was the designer and leader of Denmark's first 24-hour classical radio channel DR Classic in 2002, and was later responsible for developing new formats for classical music radio for the Danish Broadcasting corporation from 2004 - 2007. Thomas Demidoff has also worked for the City of Copenhagen with the development of the city's outdoor spaces as event programme. Since 2009 he has led international projects under the EU Culture Fund. From 2009 he was project manager for RE: NEW Music, and since 2011 he has led New Music: New Audiences, a pan-European project bringing 47 music organisations in 17 countries together to develop new ways for contemporary music to reach an audience.
Kostas Moschos
As composer he has composed 60 pieces in several forms including music for the theatre, cinema, dance and interactive music installations. He worked on several studios and taught music and technology in several Universities and Music Academies.
He is co-founder and director of the Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics (IEMA) - Greek Music Documentation Centre. In this role he was been involved in many research projects such as Composers Work Catalogues, The reconstruction of Ancient Hydraulic Organ, Automated Systems of Music Coding and Retrieval, The Acoustics of Open Theatres, Distance Learning of Music, Interactive Music Installations and Interactive Web applications for music creation. He has developed the new curriculum for music education in Greek schools and participates at the national project "Digital School". He is leader of the EU "MINSTREL project" and is a member of the International Association of Music Information Centre (IAMIC) Board since 2013.
kmoschos.musicportal.gr
Nick Sherrard
Nick Sherrard is Head of Development, Digital and Communications at Sound and Music. As soon as he took up that post at the end of 2012 Sound and Music undertook what was, in the words of The Guardian, "one of the most wide-ranging listening exercises that's taken place in any musical organisation in recent years." Today Sound and Music is transforming the way it interacts with audiences by bringing co-creation into the heart of the way it works - including the development of the British Music Collection, a unique archive of over 40,000 scores. Nick's own professional background is an unusual mix of work in the arts, commercial innovation, and digital start-ups. He is a passionate believer that the future of music in the digital world offers opportunities for composers and promoters of new music alike, even that outstrip the immediate challenges it undoubtedly poses.
Breandán Knowlton
Breandán Knowlton is the Programme Manager of Europeana, an open, trusted source of digitised cultural heritage in Europe. He is pursuing a PhD in Ethnomusicology at the Irish World Academy of Sound and Dance in Limerick, and has recently published a book/eBook on Managing Web Projects.
breandan.org
Toner Quinn
Toner Quinn is a musician, founder of The Journal of Music and a lecturer in NUI Galway.
journalofmusic.com
Sandra Collins
Dr Sandra Collins is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). She was appointed to this role in the Royal Irish Academy in 2011. DRI is the Irish national trusted digital repository for the humanities and social sciences. She is the Chair of the ALLEA (all European Academies) international E-Humanities Working Group, a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe Council, and a Work Package Leader for the FP7 STREP project Decipher.
She was previously a scientific programme manager in Science Foundation Ireland, where she had responsibility for a flagship industry-facing research centres programme with total investment over 150M€. She has 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry, and a prior appointment as lecturer in DCU School of Mathematics. She received her PhD in 1996 in nonlinear fluid dynamics.
dri.ie
Malachy Moran
Malachy Moran currently works for RTÉ Archives as Manager, Sound Library and Archive. A qualified librarian, he previously worked as a radio and television journalist for a number of broadcast and media companies.
