FEATURED NEWS

FFACE meeting on ARTMUSFAIR

The next FFACE meeting is going to take place 23rd September in Warsaw during ARTMUSFAIR 2010.

Postgraduate professional Master Programme „music for film & media“ at Danube University Krems

University Krems offers this programme for composers, who have already started their carreer, but want to enhance their professional prospects. The master program focusses on the areas of composing, audio production

FFACE & FACTS

FFACE stands for Federation of Film and Audiovisuals Composers in Europe and links together 14 composer organisations representing thousands of film & media music composers creating exciting new scores for the film and audiovisual sector. FFACE was founded in 2005 and is devoted to strengthen the position of film music and its creators in Europe. Learn more about FFACE [...]

FFACE also is a member of ECSA - European Composer & Songwriter Alliance.



NEWS FROM ECSA

ECSA Warsaw meeting, Artmusfair, Creators Network

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The European Composers Forum – ECSA’s art music composers’ pillar – is organising this years’ Artmusfair conference from 22nd to 25th of September in Warsaw, Poland. ECSA delegates gather on the 23rd of September for a closed session in order to discuss [...]

Cabinet of Commissioner Neelie Kroes welcomes ECSA officials

On 15th of July, ECSA’s Executive Chairman Alfons Karabuda came to Brussels on the occasion of a meeting with Ms Boix Alonso, Deputy Head of Cabinet of EC Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for Digital agenda.
“The meeting was extremely constructive” as pointed out by Alfons Karabuda when concluding. Both, Ms.Bois Alonso and [...]

ECSA’s Delegation Assembly concludes in Bilbao

On the 9th of June representatives of European composers societies met in Bilbao to address challenges of the European music creators’ community. ECSA’s three pillars – the European Composers Forum (ECF), the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers in Europe (FFACE) and the Alliance of Popular Composer Organization in Europe (APCOE) – met as well [...]

Cabinet of Commissioner Barnier receives ECSA officials

On 1st of June, Deputy Head of Cabinet Kerstin Jorna welcomed ECSA’s Co-Chairman Klaus Ager and Spokesperson Patrick Rackow for an exchange of views. The meeting took place in the EC Headquaters in Brussels and dealt with issues of concern for the Eu…

ECSA General Assembly meeting

The location for the Bilbao General Assembly meeting has been fixed: ECSA’s meeting, as well as the meeting of ECSA’s pillars, is going to take place in the Campos Theater, Calle Bertendona, 5.
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Austrian Government Member visits ECSA’s Office in Brussels

Claudia Schmied, Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture of the Republic of Austria visited ECSA’s Brussels Office on 10th of May. Welcomed by ECSA Secretary General Patrick Ager, Minister Schmied was guided through the venues of Flagey by Director General Hugo de Greef, as well as informed about the European House for Culture [...]

ECSA’s Coercion Committee gathers in Hamburg

Hosted by John Groves, the Coercion Committee met on 8th of May in Hamburg for a day-long working session. “The meeting was extremely constructive, I didn’t expect such inputs. We have now an ambitious action plan for the coming weeks,” as pointed out by Committee Chairman Örjan Stranberg when concluding.
Among others, the committee discussed in [...]

ECSA Spokesperson addresses Public Hearing on Collective Rights Management

The European Commission hold on 23rd of April a Public Hearing on the Governance of Collective Rights Management in the EU.
Entitled “ the relationship between collective rights managers and their members” the first panel comprised also the viewpoint of Europe’s music creators’ community. Addressed by ECSA Spokesperson Patrick Rackow, the audience was thus informed on [...]

Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries

On 27 April, the European Commission adopted a major policy document – a “green paper” – on “Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries”. This Initiative launches a consultation period of three month.
The Gr…

Creators & young entrepreneurs

ECSA’s Swedish member organization SKAP, arranged a collaboration with The Entrepreneurs Hunt, on Friday the 16th of April, in Stockholm. A day long, 10 teams of young entrepreneurs were set out to deliberate on a key challenge of the music market: promoting future creativity on the internet, providing widespread, affordable access to content for the [...]