Artist/Producer Management; Business Models & Agreements;
Taking care of business: Artist Admin & Money Management.
Will take place @ IMRO Offices, Copyright House,
Pembroke Row, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
From 11.30am to 5.00pm
Panellists:
Stuart Worthington
Stuart Worthington is a professional industry consultant with over twenty years experience. He has acted as a small business adviser; consultant and training provider working both directly with private sector clients and via the whole range of public sector agencies in the UK since 1987. Since 1990 he has concentrated on delivering small business advice and learning programmes to the cultural and creative industries, specialising in services to the music industry.
Eileen O’Gorman
Advises a broad range of clients in the corporate sector on commercial issues and has been involved in the negotiation and drafting of a wide range of commercial agreements, corporate restructuring and commercial transactions. She has also advised industry clients in contentious issues such as breach of contract, patent infringement, breach of copyright and passing off. Eileen also provides an eclectic mix of music and media clients with advice on recording, management and publishing agreements and generally in the area of copyright law and intellectual property rights.
Alan Murray
Alan Murray is a tax specialist and a chartered certified account with over 15 years experience with a particular emphasis on clients involved in the entertainment sector. Alan is a senior member of the Mazars OJK Entertainment Division and his clients range from global international high profile entertainers to indigenous performers based primarily in the Irish market place. Alan has experience in advising on the tax issues of all elements of entertainment income streams for performing musicians including recording and publishing royalties and live performance income. He also has particular expertise in dealing with HMRC in terms of agreeing UK withholding tax for live performances in the UK. Through his work in this area Alan has developed leading entertainment contacts in both the UK and US and can offer a global service in this sector”.
Ray Traynor
Producer / Engineer / Songwriter / Keyboard Player
Ray has been in the music business for the last 20 years. Started by playing keyboards in a few Dublin based bands, and gigged Ireland & UK. From playing keys in bands and the introduction of sequencers and computers he progressed to programming for bands and artists and then to recording them. He set up a recording studio in Dublin in 2002 and worked with artists such as Aslan, Alabama 3, The script and many others. He then moved his studio back home and freelanced from there onwards using various studios and engineers to assist him in his work. Ray is currently working with some unsigned & signed artists with artists such as Aslan, The Script, The Coronas, The 4 of Us, Royseven, Boyzone and several others and this year will be co-writing and producing his own album.
Cost of training day is €20 for MMF members
Cost of training day is €32 for IMRO members
Cost of training day is €70 for non-members
