Showcases

Artistic Director of the Athens Jazz, Antonis Zouganelis is currently the music and events consultant of Technopolis – City of Athens and the Owner of the music consulting agency TheCluster.

Artistic and managing director of Jazzclub Unterfahrt (Munich / Germany).

One of the most active Italian musicians on the international music scene, his music is an original fusion of contemporary jazz and world cultures. He is Director of Musica sulle Bocche (Sardinia) Festival, famous for its programme and wonderfull locations.

She is part of Serious – one of the UK’s leading producers and promoters of jazz as programming and talent development manager. As well as managing their talent development programme Take Five, she contributes to their artistic programming including for the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Since 2015 she has been a senior manager at Gărâna Jazz Festival and in 2024 she became the festival's director. In 2018, Simona founded the ORA Jazz Festival in the city of Oradea. In addition to managing the festivals, Simona consistently contributes to several other cultural and artistic programs.

Judita organises jazz concerts and tours in Lithuania for more than forty years and is the initiator and implementer of cultural events. For nearly 10 years she organised jazz shows at different venues and run Jazz club. Since 2002 she has been organising the annual "Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival".

Teshome Wondimu is the founder and executive director of Selam and Addis Jazz Festival, a Pan-African organization with offices in Addis Ababa/Nairobi and Stockholm working for the empowerment of culture actors and the strengthening of the cultural infrastructure in Africa.

He studied piano and trombone. In addition to his musical activities, Paul Zauner curates concerts at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Café Museum and the Passau Jazz Festival. He organizes the annual jazz festival “INNtöne”. Zauner runs his own independent jazz music label, PAO Records.

Tiphanie Moreau is jazz project manager for Jazz sous les Pommiers festival in Normandy (France), and board member for the French national network AJC. She has been working in the jazz field since 2008, first as a booking agent, then in in charge of Jazz Migration, a French scheme for emerging creative jazz musicians led by AJC.

Curator and researcher. From 2013 to 2022 she directed Katowice JazzArt Festival. Between 2022-2024 she served as artistic director of the Music Meeting Festival (NL). She is the winner of the Music and Community 2022 award broadcast by EJN.

Friederike is an experienced manager/producer and musician. She was director of the booking agency Jazz Impuls, artistic director of the Jazz Academy of the Academy of Music Codarts Rotterdam. She now works at the Metropole Orkest as artistic producer and in talent development.

Founder and artistic director of NovaraJazz, now also WeStart Music Production Centre, former president of I-Jazz, host the 2019 EJN Conference in Novara, Italy. He writes about music and cocktails on various Italian newspapers.

Dani Escolano is a musician, teacher and organizer of festivals such as Festival Castillo de Aínsa or Huesca es Jazz. He directs the Jazz for Kids project, a reference jazz school for children in jazz music in Spain. Great defender of life in the countryside, all his projects are carried out in cities and small towns in Aragon.

Ragnhild Menes is the director of Kongsberg Jazzfestival, one of the leading jazz festivals in Norway. She is also involved in the Norwegian jazz community through her role as chairman of the board in Norsk Jazzforum (the Norwegian Jazz Federation).

Sébastien Vidal is a major figure in French jazz, directing Le Duc des Lombards and TSFJAZZ. He promotes jazz globally, founding the French Quarter festival in NYC and events like "You and The Night and The Music" and Nice Jazz Festival. His expertise spans programming, media, event production, and international jazz promotion.

Jaïr Tchong is the artistic coordinator and promotor jazz/global for Ha Concerts, Ghent. Before Ha, Tchong has worked for art center KAAP (Bruges/Ostend), Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam), Melkweg (Amsterdam) and Music Center the Netherlands (Amsterdam).

Gilles Dupuis is the director and booker of JazzOnze+ Festival Lausanne and also booker of the jazz club La Spirale in Fribourg, Switzerland. In addition to these activities, he is also a musician and plays drums in the afrobeat band from Lausanne, Professor Wouassa.

Board member of Jazz in Helsingborg, a small jazz club perfectly situated between Copenhagen, Malmö, and Gothenburg. We elevate Helsingborg’s music scene by offering a chance to experience both current stars and the cutting-edge talents of tomorrow.

Freelance events and PR professional (ia. MENT, Sajeta, Jazz Cerkno), SI coordinator of the international exchange Jazzchange and a sharp and analytical music journalist, which earned her the role of (first woman) head music editor of Radio Študent.

Lana Janjanin is a composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, and singer from Croatia, with a degree in Composition from the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Since 2021, she is the artistic director of the JazzHR Festival in Zagreb.

Jez has worked around the music professionally for 40 years. In 2024 he and long-time colleague Chris Philips founded the world’s first 24/7, global jazz radio station - One Jazz. Jez also promotes and hosts many jazz gigs including the long-running Jazz In The Round night.

Roel Vanhoeck is Deputy Director Music of the Center of Fine Arts Brussels (Bozar). He is responsible for the jazz, electronic & cross-over program. Bozar is the largest arts center of Belgium. Before joining BOZAR, he was managing director of Jeunesses Musicales of Flanders.

Fimmer Engel has be host and main producer of Danish Radio national jazz channel DR P8 Jazz and was one of the main forces to start the channel back in 2012. Since 2019 she has worked as content producer for the legendary Danish Radio Big Band.

Director/programmer of Marseille Jazz des cinq continents since 2016, Hugues Kieffer works on the contact between artists and the public with a conception of jazz, creative, mixed, globalized and modern. "Jazz imposed itself to me as an evidence".

Founder and General Director of Seoul Music Week which is international showcase festival and conference in Korea. And also Ulsan Jazz Festival is the most oldest jazz festival in Korea since 2000. I was a professor in YoungSan University of cinema during ten years before involved in the music fields.

13 years Head of Programming at JALC, 9 years Artistic Director at Yoshi's, 5 years Director of A&R at Verve, 4 years GM of Monterey Jazz Festival Records, 25 years Grammy-winning producer, 8 years teaching, 1-year jazzahead! Jury member!

Adorer of Art, Music Producer & Communications Strategist. Proud founder and general manager of MAMA JAZ* (mamajaz.org), a unique month-long demonstration for music creation, improvisation & performance on planet Earth, based in Mauritius and harmonised with April since 2016; 10th edition in 2025!

Frank working as program director at the BIMHUIS Amsterdam, The Netherlands since January 2018. Before he was as a freelance music program manager in Rotterdam for Concertgebouw De Doelen, Jazz International Rotterdam, LantarenVenster and LUX in Nijme.

Natalie Greffel is a composer, singer, bassist, and booker for Xjazz Festival Berlin. Founder of New Past, she fuses music and heritage to envision alternative futures. Her debut album "Para Todos" (2020) blends Afro-Brazilian sounds, earning the 2023 German Jazz Award.

Brenda joined the media and arts sector over 30 years ago as a radio and television broadcaster. Further, Brenda serves as Producer and Creative Director for concerts and art festivals, currently being the Creative Director for the Prince Albert Journey to Jazz Festival in the Western Cape Province.

Peter Fisher is the CEO of PF Music., and owns the brands, Jazz and Conversations & Jazz and Conversations:Live. He is aka The BassMan, the creator & host of Jazz and Conversations, the #1 African jazz radio Show on the continent. PF Music’s mission is the promotion of African Jazz.