Description
- • • E-mail: summerinsevastopol@gmail.com • • •
Diligent and highly versatile music professional. Exceptional negotiation and organizational skills coupled
with creative direction and brilliant musical taste as well as marketing and social media experience. Have
reputation of responsible and fair-dealing music specialist, deep in industry for 6 years. Coming with huge
base of business and interpersonal relations with artists, labels, publishers, producers, licensors, studios…
Successfully working remotely.
Expert Skills:
• Musical copyrights (clearance of rights; licensing; supplying of rights; deal negotiation)
• Digital Strategy (new business development; strategic planning; budget management)
• Product Management (Music selection; production & remix management; arranging recording
sessions; compiling VA CDs, releases; artist management; online community building, etc.)
• Booking (searching venues; tour dates; negotiations with promoters & agents)
• Industry Services (selling or buying assets, labels, catalogs; repertoire supplying; client services, etc.)
• Music Production & Composition (as writer was out under artist name “Andrey Varcev”)
Skills
- Booking Activity
- Music Copyrights Supplying
- Music Industry Deals
- Music Product Management
- Selling Or Buying Assets and Catalogs
- talent scouting
Education
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TNU Vernadskogo University, Sevastopol, Ukraine
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2008 - 2012
Management Faculty
Bachelor
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Piano Tuning School "Quint-2" , Moscow, Russia
- 2013 Piano Tuning, Acoustics Theory
Experience
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Disco Soul Records
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2011 - 2014
Owner & Founder
Label Disco Soul Records includes 200+ soundtracks, 40+ releases by over 80 artists (Worldwide).
Concept of Disco Soul was to represent nu disco genre and artists in contemporary market and to collect high class
soundtracks for exclusive administration using master & publishing rights.
Notably, was one of the youngest A&R executives and label owners in the music industry.
In 2012 founded brand new record label called Fifty Fathom Records that later was also sold to person from US. -
MRC Music Group
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2014 - 2017
A&R
Functions:
– Researching and contacting needed artists, negotiations
– Clearance of master and publishing rights, contracting
– Compiling CDs, arranging of vinyl and digital releases
– Arranging of remixes, managing production projects
– Relationships with artists in comprehensive sense, invoices processing
♫ Genres that I signed: House Music, Disco, Chillout, EDM, Pop, Jazz.Recruited by former boss to lead A&R. Worked remotely from Ukraine for company that is based in UK, London.
Signed music for labels Nang Records, Tirk, Melodica, Real Balearic, Distinctive Records, Dharma Songs Publishing
Spotted numerous artists including Deadmau5, Todd Teje, Kerry Chandler, Jose Padilla, Chris Coco, Pete Herbert, others.
Among other artists, discovered and signed singer Nanka who was unknown at the time and who later was signed to
major Spinnup label (UMG), as well as artist D-Pulse, who was our on Nang Rec. and sgned on Vernal (UMG). -
Rare Blair Multimedia
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2015 - 2016
A&R / Synch Manager / Booking Manager
Functions:
– Supplied music for sync goals, licensing, clearance of copy
– Searching and providing songs for major celebrity artists
– Booking goals and efforts
♫ Genres I operated: Hip-Hop, Rap, Urban, Pop, ElectronicOrganized tour in 8 cities in Russia for artists Lil Eazy-E and Baby Eazy-E3, sons of legendary rapper Eazy-E.
Supplied song through agency for major singer from WMG (Specs confidential for publicity).
Still represented on Rare Blair website as A&R and licensing partner: www.rareblairmultimedia.com/team
Some another achievements are also confidential for large publicity. -
*One Publishing Agency* Who Is Music Supplier For Omnicom Media Group
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2014
Supplier Of Publishing Rights
Supplied to *Company* music catalogs of 10 record labels (about 3000 compositions). Conducted
clearance of publishing rights. In negotiations represented *The Comany* -
Beach Club "Horosho", Sevastopol, Ukraine
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2009 - 2011
Art-Director, Talent Buyer, DJ
Club on beach of warm Black Sea that had also winter venue.
– Created concept and subjects for parties and sessions in the club
– Booked artists and DJs for parties in Horosho club
– Executed riders for invited performers
– As DJ played house music in local dance culture (I’m a DJ since 18 years old) -
Over 20 another music & media oriented companies for "one-time" or "pet-project" deals
- 2010 to Today A&R