Association of Independent Promoters & atom present
Promoter Masterclass: Womxn In Music
Your Journey As A Promoter
Live on Facebook & Zoom | Register here
With: Bengi Ünsal (Southbank Centre), Anna Moulson (Melting Vinyl) & Dom Frazer (Boileroom)
Hosted by: Emma Zillmann (Kendal Calling, Bluedot)
As part of our ongoing commitment to support the creation of a more equal and more diverse music industry and to do everything we can to help achieve this, we’ve invited four strong, successful and talented women to share their journeys as promoters and women in music.
With Emma Zillman as host, Bengi Ünsal, Anna Moulson & Dom Frazer will share their experiences, good and bad, along with advice for those looking to get started in the industry. They will also discuss what they’re looking forward to post-COVID, the live events they’ve already got lined up and the shows that sound too good to miss.
Presented by Association of Independent Promoters & atom promotions as part of an Arts Council England project, the mission of the promoter masterclass series is to:
Educate upcoming promoters & the wider music industry during the lockdown
Support independent promoters & freelance workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Help concert promoters to deliver remarkable events when they are safely able to do so
Speakers:
Bengi Ünsal
Bengi Ünsal is Head of Contemporary Music at Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts centre, on the south bank of the River Thames, where she is responsible for a year-round programme of more than 200 gigs and contemporary music performances across its iconic venues – Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
She manages the award-winning Meltdown, the longest-running artist curated festival in the world, securing luminaries M.I.A (2017), Robert Smith (2018), Nile Rodgers (2019) and Grace Jones (2020) as curators. Robert Smith’s 2018 festival was the highest-grossing Meltdown ever, nominated for Music Week Awards’ Festival of the Year and winner of the AIM Independent Music Awards 'Act of Independence'.
In 2018 Bengi launched Southbank Centre’s first regular club night, Concrete Lates, providing a platform for international electronic artists; she spear-headed Purcell Sessions, a creative incubation series where artists use the most intimate auditorium, Purcell Room, to develop new material or conceive collaborations live in front of an audience; and launched futuretense, the weekly free slot for international emerging music talent, delivered in partnership with BBC Music Introducing.
Before the move to London, Bengi was the founding director of Salon IKSV (part of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts). From 2007-2009 she was the Managing Director of Doublemoon Records in Istanbul. She has run her own events company, launched a festival and worked for radio and music TV channels, Universal Music and BMG. Bengi is a DJ with a particular love of house music. She is on the board of Music Venues Trust, and in April 2018 was included in She Said So's Alternative Power Music 100 list.
Dom Frazer
With a focused specialism in developing and working within Event Concept, Design and Venue Management for over 20 years, Frazer has honed her expertise via a broad dynamic cultural landscape. She is Founder and Director of The Boileroom, a live music venue, creative arts space and community collective in the heart of Surrey, established in 2006.
Anna Moulson
Anna Moulson has been a freelance live music promoter/event consultant, for over 20 years, promoting under the name of 'Melting Vinyl'. Each year she stages BBC 6 music/creative type artists at over 50 events, and curates and produces a festival, that reaches a combined audience of 10,000 in Brighton and Kent. Anna wrote and teaches, as a lead lecturer, on a first-year Music Business and Event Management degree course at BIMM Brighton. She also holds the diary/organises the production for touring live music artists at a stunning 600 capacity: St George's Church in Brighton. Anna freelances on unique collaborations in festival and gallery spaces and is presently working with Shirley Collins, and a sound artist, and poet, at the Bloomsbury group's: Charleston House. Anna has had to be dynamic and adaptable to survive an ever-changing music industry and worked with Brighton Dome on 'Live is Alive!' a series of social distance grassroots artists shows held at the venue in the Autumn of 2020 and is planning a programming a series of inspiring live music streams for this coming Spring/Early Summer at St George's Church in Brighton.
For more information: www.meltingvinyl.co.uk
Emma Zillmann
Emma Zillmann is Programming Director at From The Fields, a creative agency specialising in producing award-winning music and arts festivals in the UK.
Within the From The Fields portfolio there are a huge variety of events, including Kendal Calling, which has sold out in advance every year in its 15 year history. It has grown from 900 people to 25,000 and remains one of the UK’s best loved family festivals, featuring artists including The Stereophonics, Nile Rodgers & Chic, and Noel Gallagher.
Bluedot, which is held at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Jodrell Bank Observatory, is a newer and totally unique festival, with just as large a programme of scientists, astronauts and environmentalists as musical artists such as Kraftwerk, the Chemical Brothers and Jean-Michel Jarre. Established in 2016, it has a capacity of 15,000.
From The Fields also produce Off The Record, a multi-venue emerging artist showcase and conference in Manchester, Cleethorpes Festival Of The Sky (Winner: Best New Festival 2019) and Bournemouth Arts By The Sea, as well as having involvement in Inner City Electronic festival in Leeds and the Manchester Podcast Festival.
Emma is responsible for programming over 20 stages across the festival portfolio, as well as any one-offs or special projects.