“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.
Besides Martin Cloonan (University of Turku, Finland), Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) Axel Ballreich is a participant in the panel discussion of “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” moderated by Beate Flath on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Axel Ballreich studied sociology and finished his diploma in 1987 in Bamberg. He is promoting concerts since 1982 and is running two music clubs in Nuremburg, the Hirsch with a capacity of 700 and the Löwensaal with a capacity of 1,500. He has also promoted more than a dozen open air festivals in North Bavaria with his promoting and booking agency Concertbüro Franken. Axel Ballreich is also the co-founder and one of the CEOs of the Hamburg-based LiveMusikKommission (LiveKomm), an umbrella organization representing more than 450 music clubs and festivals in 100 German towns and municipalities.
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