Natajla SLOBODYREVA
Artists manager - Meta Artists (Hannover, Germany)
Biography
The founding director of Meta Artists International, Natalja Slobodyreva has worked in a management capacity with the world’s most prominent orchestras, conductors, and soloists, both in the Touring and Artists Management departments.
After joining IMG Artists in Hannover, Germany in 2010, Natalja worked with Harold Clarkson, managing director and global director of touring, on a series of important projects with orchestras and artists such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit and Vadim Repin; the Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi and Khatia Buniatishvili; the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies and Yuri Bashmet; the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov", Vladimir Jurowski and Julia Fischer; the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi and Nicola Benedetti; the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi and Alexander Toradze; the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater and Mischa Maisky; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Jakub Hruša, Louis Langrée, Mikhail Pletnev, Ye-Eun Choi, Hilary Hahn, Daniel Lozakovich, Sandrine Piau and Nikolai Lugansky.
Other highlights of Natalja's years at IMG included the Moscow appearance of Claudio Abbado with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Maria João Pires; the first European tour of the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, with concerts at the Musikverein Wien and the Brucknerhaus in Linz conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky and featuring Denis Matsuev; and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic's debut in Moscow, conducted by Kristjan Järvi.
Drawing on her background as an experienced manager, Natalja has lectured at Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul on the importance of self-management skills, artist's agencies, organizational structure, creativity and new concert formats, public relations and marketing. She has also served on the jury of competitions.
Natalja grew up in a family of musicians amidst the natural beauty and rich musical traditions of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the daughter of a violin teacher and a violin maker. She was eleven when her family emigrated to Germany and had already received an intensive music education from the Uspensky Music School for Gifted Children in Tashkent. She subsequently studied with Alexander Kramarov, and Josef Rissin, and took master classes with Roman Nodel, Zakhar Bron, and Ivry Gitlis.
Events
Une semaine d'échanges et de dialogues entre des lauréats du Concours de Genève et des professionnels du monde de la musique et de la scène, entre cas pratiques, exemples personnalisés et ouverture sur les aspects "indirectement artistiques" de la vie du jeune musicien.
This year’s Prizewinners’ Workshop 2020 was supposed to be held during the first week of May and bring together half a dozen recent prizewinners of the Geneva Competition (2019) along with a few students from the HEM, who are completing a Masters in specialized music performance as soloist. Due to the sanitary crisis caused by the Covid-19, this workshop could unfortunately not take place in person, despite it having been postponed to the month of September. The Geneva Competition therefore decided to innovate by offering a Prizewinners’ e-Workshop, which will be held online during more than a month.
The content of this e-Workshop has been adapted to fit the present circumstances and conditions of implementation, whilst maintaining its initial objectives and values. Privileging a method of personal coaching, it will focus on two main themes: career management and digital & audio-visual training.
This alternative experience will take place over a period of more than a month and will include personal evaluations, collective broadcasts, one-on-one interviews and times of independent work. During the last day of the Workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to meet up (hopeful in person) to share their experience with others and present their work. This final meeting will be a great way to reinforce the collective nature of the project, whereas the eWorkshop will be essentially run at a distance.
Participants in the eWorkshop will be given the mission of completing two distinct and complementary personal projects: the first one on the theme of career management and the second one resulting in the production of a short video. By addressing issues that are crucial to the development of a young musicians’ career, these projects follow the objectives fixed by the Geneva Competition’s Prizewinners Workshop since its creation in 2017.
The e-Workshop is managed by the Geneva Competition and its line producer ProMusica Concert Agency. Both of these entities provide recognized professional competences to participants (artistic management, financial management, production, communication, public relations, etc.), as well as an experience of several years in event organization.
The permanent team will be reinforced by specialists in multimedia, as well as a journalist- presenter and a technical manager. These personalities will form the reference team in charge of organizing and animating the eWorkshop.
This 4th edition of the Prizewinners workshop of the Concours Genève is supported by the Art Mentor Foundation (Luzern, Switzerland).