Mastering The Music Business (MMB) 2026

Andra Vasile has been working in the music business for 11 years. She started as a volunteer for various concerts and festivals and landed her first job as PR for a concert promoter in 2012. Since then, Andra has been active in the music industry working in different fields such as... Read More →

Katarina Kuzmicheva is a Music Marketing Strategist, Artist Development Consultant, and Label Manager at dunk!records, one of the world’s leading independent post-rock/metal labels.

Working at the intersection of independent labels, festivals, digital marketing, and artist manag... Read More →

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Andrei Ilie is 28 years old and is one of the most active drummers on the Romanian rock & pop scene. Frequently, though, as a member of the projects he was involved in during the years, he found himself taking care of band tasks which often went beyond drumming duties, particularly... Read More →

Philip Goron (drums) graduated from the Faculty of Musical Interpretation, Percussion section, at the National University of Music in Bucharest, and the Young Masters program at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MDW). In 2023, Philip was awarded the Yamaha Scholarship... Read More →

Through my company, Seraphine Creations, and Asociația Neumarkt, where I serve as president, I build concerts, festivals and international artistic projects, and I approach them the way I approach a recipe: with a real budget, a real schedule, and people who know what they are responsible... Read More →

DJ at Kiss FM for 13 years, Program Director for a year. One of the organizers of the largest music industry conference in Romania, Mastering the Music Business, with experience in booking and artist management.

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Emil Ionescu is a Romanian event organizer since 2004. He organized over 4.000 events from clubs to big names like Judas Priest, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Deftones, Disturbed, James Arthur, Slipknot, Garbage, Tom Odell, Slayer, Whitesnake or Evanescence that have had an audience... Read More →

Cristian Iosub este fondator și președinte al CyberShield, asociație non-profit dedicată educației în securitate cibernetică, membră a Clusterului de Excelență în Securitate Cibernetică. Este membru al OWASP Foundation, comunitatea internațională de referință în securitatea... Read More →

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Co-founder of Overground Music agency, I started small - writing gig reviews on last.fm. At some point, one of my favorite local bands quoted one of my reviews, then they asked me to write them a new bio, and 8 years later we're still working together.

Within the agency, I work with established Romanian artists and bands like byron, Robin and the Backstabbers, Lucia and The Mono Jacks, to name just a few. I'm particularly interested in image strategies and I'm fascinated by the narratives that hold together an artist's public image... Read More →

Concert promotion
Artist development
Music conferences

With over seven years of experience in the music industry, Irina Păduraru is Head of Digital Distribution at Cat Music, where she leads the digital distribution strategy and oversees releases across all major streaming platforms. She specializes in digital distribution, release strategy... Read More →