Kick-off event for Master’s Degree Programme in Music Business
Join us for the kick-off of Sibelius Academy’s brand-new Master’s Programme in Music Business!
Music Business is a new Master’s Degree Programme organised by the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki, with support from the Teosto Foundation and Music Finland. The new Master’s Degree Programme is a pioneering initiative designed to bridge academic excellence with music industry expertise and innovation, and to provide a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue and mutual exchange between academia and the music business sector.
The kick-off event and panel discussion, titled ”Growing Global: Music Business Today,” will address pressing topics in the music business and present the vision, structure, and goals of the new programme. The event also provides a forum for networking and dialogue.
This event is aimed at key stakeholders in the music business, including industry professionals, researchers, educators, and students, who are interested in the development of music business education, research, and collaboration between academia and the music industry.
Programme
- 10.30–11.00 Meet & greet with coffee, lower foyer
11.00–11.15 Morning Concert: Sofra, Black Box
- Merve Abdurrahmani, composition, piano, vocals
- Hadi Hrekes, percussion
- Melisa Yıldırım, kamancha
- 11.20–11.30 Opening session, Head of the Programme, Violeta Simjanovska
- 11.30–11.35 Vice Dean of Sibelius Academy, Tuuli Talvitie
- 11.35–11.40 Director of Music Finland, Mikko Manninen
- 11.40–11.45 Teosto Cultural Foundation, Anna Baijars
- 11.45–12.15 Keynote speaker: Daniel Nordgård, Professor at University of Agder, Norway: “Growing Global: Music Business Today”
- 12.15–12.30 Q&A
- 12.30–13.00 Break: 30 minutes – Celebrating the start of the new Master’s degree programme in Music Business with sparkling wine, lower foyer
13.00–13.15 Music performance: Miksu, Mikko & Severi Trio, Black Box
- Mikko Antila, vibraphone, piano
- Mikael Saastamoinen, double bass
- Severi Sorjonen, drums
13.15–14.00 Pekka Saarikorpi moderating the panel “Growing Global: Music Business Today”
Panelists
- Sibelius Academy: Toni- Matti Karjalainen
- Music Finland: Mikko Manninen
- Expert from the field: Eero Tolppanen, Head of A&R / Elements Music
- Expert from the field: Maria Silvennoinen (Jazz Finland)
- Expert from the field: Ramona Forsström, Managing Director, Warner Music Finland
- Student Representative: Jääskeläinen Eero
- 14.00–14.30 Q&A
- 14.30–14.35 Concluding remarks/closing words: the future of Music Business program and welcoming the new students (Pekka Saarikorpi)
Further information: Pekka Saarikorpi, pekka.saarikorpi@uniarts.fi
Changes are possible.
Music Business is a new Master’s Degree Programme organised by the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki, with support from the Teosto Foundation and Music Finland. The new Master’s Degree Programme is a pioneering initiative designed to bridge academic excellence with music industry expertise and innovation, and to provide a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue and mutual exchange between academia and the music business sector.
The kick-off event and panel discussion, titled ”Growing Global: Music Business Today,” will address pressing topics in the music business and present the vision, structure, and goals of the new programme. The event also provides a forum for networking and dialogue.
This event is aimed at key stakeholders in the music business, including industry professionals, researchers, educators, and students, who are interested in the development of music business education, research, and collaboration between academia and the music industry.
Programme
- 10.30–11.00 Meet & greet with coffee, lower foyer
11.00–11.15 Morning Concert: Sofra, Black Box
- Merve Abdurrahmani, composition, piano, vocals
- Hadi Hrekes, percussion
- Melisa Yıldırım, kamancha
- 11.20–11.30 Opening session, Head of the Programme, Violeta Simjanovska
- 11.30–11.35 Vice Dean of Sibelius Academy, Tuuli Talvitie
- 11.35–11.40 Director of Music Finland, Mikko Manninen
- 11.40–11.45 Teosto Cultural Foundation, Anna Baijars
- 11.45–12.15 Keynote speaker: Daniel Nordgård, Professor at University of Agder, Norway: “Growing Global: Music Business Today”
- 12.15–12.30 Q&A
- 12.30–13.00 Break: 30 minutes – Celebrating the start of the new Master’s degree programme in Music Business with sparkling wine, lower foyer
13.00–13.15 Music performance: Miksu, Mikko & Severi Trio, Black Box
- Mikko Antila, vibraphone, piano
- Mikael Saastamoinen, double bass
- Severi Sorjonen, drums
13.15–14.00 Pekka Saarikorpi moderating the panel “Growing Global: Music Business Today”
Panelists
- Sibelius Academy: Toni- Matti Karjalainen
- Music Finland: Mikko Manninen
- Expert from the field: Eero Tolppanen, Head of A&R / Elements Music
- Expert from the field: Maria Silvennoinen (Jazz Finland)
- Expert from the field: Ramona Forsström, Managing Director, Warner Music Finland
- Student Representative: Jääskeläinen Eero
- 14.00–14.30 Q&A
- 14.30–14.35 Concluding remarks/closing words: the future of Music Business program and welcoming the new students (Pekka Saarikorpi)
Further information: Pekka Saarikorpi, pekka.saarikorpi@uniarts.fi
Changes are possible.