GEORGES PEROT
ELMA Association / MESO Events | GR
Involved for almost two decades in different fields and levels of the Music ecosystem, Georges Perot created MESO in 1998 aiming to generate a National network of the “European Music Day“ in Greece and since then he has been the National Coordinator (55 cities in 2018) and also the Attica Artistic Producer. European Music Day is today the widest live music event of southeastern Europe, a project in which Georges accomplished to reach a concept visibility over millions of visitors, in ten years period. He is dexterous at developing major cultural projects from scratch, working adequately with both public and private organizations, entrepreneurs and artists. Active in several national and transnational large scale projects, he has participated in many EU projects. Since 2004, he has also produced hundreds of major cultural and marketing events and since 2008, he is operating as a partner for various European networks such as Fete Européenne de la Musique, Viva Europa, Euricca, Europavox and Global Entrepreneurship Week and is one of the co-founders and a Board Member of the European Live Music Association in Brussels.
PETER BAROŠ
SIGIC | SI
Peter Baroš is Secretary General of SIGIC – Slovenian Music Information Center – the central information point for Slovenian music, musicians, musical professionals, and current musical events and activities. Peter studied philosophy and sociology of culture and graduated in the field of phenomenology of music with work called “Musical performance – listening, ideology, repetition”. From 2010 to 2014 he was a counselor for music at the Ministry of culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Peter is also a musician, multi-instrumentalist who plays in Slovenian groups Zaklonišče prepeva and Malamor.