WOMEX 11 Guide

CO n f e r e n c eBios A – ZBios A – ZIncluding Conference speakers, mentors, Daycasepresenters, Award winners, presenters and MCsas well as Guide contributors.For more bios check also› On Location/WOMEX Photographers› Network/WOMEX JuryColin Bass (UK/Germany)Colin Bass is an award-winning record producer (DanielKahn, Etran Finatawa, Sambasunda), globe-trottingmusician (3 Mustaphas 3, Camel), one-hit songwriter,radio DJ (retired) and occasional music writer (RoughGuide to World Music, fRoots). In the latter capacity he alsowrites and edits the artist biographies for the WOMEXGuide book. www.colinbass.comAward MC, Sunday 12:00 › On Location/WOMEX AwardsEssay Writer › On Location/WOMEX Artist AwardInterviewer › Conference/Session 18Oliver Belopeta (Republic of Macedonia)Worked as a music journalist and radio announcer inthe ‘70s and ‘80s. Later managing the cultural institutionSkopje Jazz Festival, which organises two festivals,Skopje Jazz Festival and the world-music oriented OffFest. Currently a member of the Board of the Directors ofthe European Jazz Network and the European Forum ofWorldwide Music Festivals.Speaker › Conference/Session 11Jordi Bertran (Spain)Cultural Manager for the city of Tarragona (1985-2009)and Artistic Director of Fira Mediterrània de Manresa(2001-2005). He now works as Artistic Director of theFestival Internacional de Música Popular i Tradicional inVilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) and as Manager of FiraMediterrània Foundation.Chair › Conference/Session 10Pim Betist (The Netherlands)Founder of Africa Unsigned, Pim Betist also created theonline label SellaBand, attracting music fans to invest andempower unsigned artists in Europe, the USA and Africa.Listed in Management Team as one of Holland’s top 25creative business people in January 2010.Speaker › Conference/Session 7Amitava Bhattacharya (India)An engineer from Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur; a fellow from London School of Economicsand founding director of banglanatak.com. Specialisingin culture-based approaches for development aiming atcommunity-led action, Banglanatak’s flagship initiative ‘artfor livelihood’ has earned them accreditation with globaladvisory status by UNESCO.Speaker › Conference/Session 6Amy Blackman (USA)She manages bands. Call her old school cause that’sall she does. Her current clients are Money Mark, multiGrammy-winning Ozomatli, multi multi multi Grammywinningproducer/mixer/engineer Robert Carranza,Camilo Lara (Mexican Institute of Sound), and Chris Franzand Tiny Weymouth (Tom Tom Club).Speaker › Conference/Session 17Joe Boyd (USA/UK)Joe Boyd is a record producer and writer. His Hanniballabel produced recordings by Cubanismo, Songhai,Ivo Papasov, Muzsikas, Kanda Bongo Man and VirginiaRodrigues. In the 1960s, he produced Nick Drake, PinkFloyd, the Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention.His book White Bicycles is now available in sevenlanguages. He is currently writing a book about worldmusic.Essay Writer › On Location/WOMEX Professional Excellence AwardAward Presenter, Sunday 12:00 › On Location/WOMEX Professional Excellence AwardPaul Bräuer (Germany)Paul Bräuer studied musicology, communication andChinese in Shanghai and Berlin. After a greenhorn periodin freelance music journalism and concert management,he joined the staff of Piranha three years ago. He alsoworks for the German public radio station Radio Bremen.Speaker › Conference/Session 2Pascal Bussy (France)Journalist and author. Started as a label manager forIsland from 1990 to 1993, after which he became directorof Warner Jazz France. From 2006 onwards, after havingcompleted various commissions for French institutionssuch as the Cité de la Musique and IRMA, he joinedharmonia mundi where he is Artistic Director for worldvillage and Le Chant Du Monde. He is also thetreasurer of C.A.L.I.F. (Club Action des LabelsIndépendants Français) and he regularly organiseslectures on contemporary music.Winner, Sunday 12:00› On Location/WOMEX Label AwardMentor › Conference/Mentoring Sessions A – ZMatthew Covey (USA)Executive Director of Tamizdat, a New York-basednon-profit project devoted to encouraging culturalexchange. He oversees the organisation’s Visa Servicesprogramme, which provides affordable assistance toperforming artists seeking legal US work visas. Prior tohis role at Tamizdat, he was a European booking agentfor Knitting Factory, he managed the Klezmatics, andwas a professional musician.Mentor › Conference/Mentoring Sessions A – ZAndrew Cronshaw (UK)British multi-instrumentalist and producer, who alsowrites and broadcasts on roots musics, particularly thoseof Europe, for fRoots, The Rough Guide to World Music,the BBC etc. For over twenty years he has had a specialinvolvement with the music of Finland.Daycase Presenter, Friday 14:15› Showcases/Artists A – Z: Antti PaalanenDominique Cyrille (Guadeloupe)Ethnomusicologist, Head of Mission Patrimony atRepriz, Guadeloupe’s centre for traditional music anddance. Teaches at the Université des Antilles Guyane,in Guadeloupe. Author of scholarly articles, bookchapters and monographs about music and dance,politics in the Creole-speaking Caribbean. Editor ofRèpriz books and CD series.Speaker › Conference/Session 6Francesco D’Amato (Italy)Researcher and assistant professor at the University ofRome ‘La Sapienza’, where he teaches Analysis of MusicalLanguage and manages a postgraduate Master Course inManagement, Marketing and Communication of Music.He has written about the changes in the music industryin Musica e Industrial (2009, Carocci) and in his blog,http://francescodamato.typepad.com.Chair › Conference/Session 7Nainita Desai (UK)She is an award-winning media composer and hasworked with Peter Gabriel and numerous world artistsat Real World Studios, as well as working as a sounddesigner on Hollywood feature films. Many of her projectshave won or been nominated for numerous awardsincluding Oscars and BAFTAs.Chair › Conference/Session 3Frank Dostal (Germany)Songwriter and music producer. In the ‘60s, he was thesinger of Germany’s most famous beat group, The Rattles,and later fronted the rock band Wonderland. In the late‘70s, he co-wrote internationally successful hits for thevocal duo Baccara, produced by Rolf Soja. Today, he is onthe supervisory board of the German performance rightsorganisation GEMA.Speaker › Conference/Session 9Maxime Duda (Lebanon)Producer, programmer and cultural consultant. Since2005 he has been shaping a new vision of the Arabworld in music. Director of the Lebanese Export Officefor Performing Arts (LEOPArts) since 2007 and founderof Arab New Trends in the UK in 2009, he programs andadvises on musical trends and cultural engineering in theMiddle East.Chair › Conference/Session 5Birgit Ellinghaus (Germany)After graduating in media studies and education, BirgitEllinghaus worked from 1974 for the Culture Centre inWuppertal, Germany, and from 1983-1986 in France asa curator for arts projects of artists from Turkey in exile.Since 1990 she has been founding director, festivalcurator and music producer of alba Kultur in Cologne.In 2009, she was appointed by the German UNESCOCommission as member of the Advisory Board in theNational Committee of Culture.Daycase Presenter, Saturday 14:15› Showcases/Artists A – Z: Krar CollectiveCO n f e r e n c eBios A – Z152153