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Participate until 22 SEPT / 25
The fifth anniversary edition of the Sofia Songwriting Camp Starts
Sofia Songwriting Camp celebrates its first anniversary with its fifth edition and an already established format, strong international participation and an even larger community of like-minded people. From September 28 to October 4, some of the most successful authors, performers and music producers from Europe, Korea and the USA will meet again in Borovets to create the music of tomorrow.
The organizers from Virginia Publishing announce a competition that will give the opportunity to five Bulgarian authors (composers, songwriters or arrangers) to become part of the camp and create alongside leading names from the world and Bulgarian scene. All those who create music can apply with their own original demo recordings from today until September 22.
The winners will be announced on September 27 at 11:00 a.m. during a special event – Workshop + Listening Session, which will be held in the Central Halls (level -1). Visitors will have the opportunity to meet some of the camp’s mentors and receive feedback on their work. As in previous editions of SSC, this year, we expect leading figures from the global music industry – including Robin Jenssen (founder and CEO of KREATION Music Rights Europe), Jin Suk Choi (producer with 68 #1 songs on Billboard) and Che Pope (GRAMMY winner for “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” and nominee for Kanye West’s “Bound 2”) – who will participate as mentors and evaluate the submitted author proposals. The names of all confirmed participants will be announced very soon.
The event is being held with the support of Kaufland, Nescafe 3in1 and with the media support of The Voice Radio & TV.
Managing Director & FOUNDER
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Stanislava
Armoutlieva
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Stanislava Armoutlieva is the founder and managing director of some of the biggest music companies Stanislava Armoutlieva is the founder and managing director of some of the biggest music companies in Bulgaria: Virginia Records, Animato Music, Virginia Publishing, Animato Music Publishing.
Virginia Records was founded in 1992, as the official Bulgarian representative of the largest record company in the world at that time – PolyGram, renamed Universal Music, after one of the biggest mergers in the industry. Virginia Records has been the exclusive licensee of Universal Music for 16 years. The company is now the exclusive partner of Sony Music Entertainment for the territory of Bulgaria. Virginia Records is also a producer and a manager of some of the top Bulgarian artists.
Virginia Publishing is the first music publishing company in Bulgaria. It is the exclusive representative for the Bulgarian territory of Universal Music Publishing. Virginia Publishing is also managing the entire production music catalogue of Universal Music Publishing – UPM. The company is a sub-publisher of Peer Music and has a partnership for the administration of BMG Rights Management. Virginia Publishing is involved in the development of several Bulgarian songwriters, thus creating an impressive catalogue of local copyrights.
Animato Music was founded in 2003 and represented EMI Music for 10 years. At the moment, the company is a partner of Universal Music.
Animato Music Publishing was established as a sub-publisher of EMI Music Publishing for the territory of Bulgaria and currently manages both the core and production music catalogues of Sony Music Publishing.
Since 2002, Stanislava Armoutlieva is Chairman of the Board of the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP), which is a National Group of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Since 1998, she has also been a member of the Managing board of PROPHON – the Neighboring Rights Collecting Society of Performing Artists and Phonogram Producers. Between 2001 and 2006 she was a Chairman of the Managing board of PROPHON. She took over the same position in 2012 and is holding it until today.
Co - Founder & CEO
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Robin
Jenssen
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Co-founder & President at EKKO Music Rights Europe, Co-founder & CEO at Dsign Music AS, Co-founder & CEO at SPARWK AS.
In 2005 Jenssen co-founded the renowned writing and production team Dsign Music in Norway. Since the start they have been involved in more than 400 releases worldwide resulting in 40 Billboard No 1’s, over 35 million records, an array of international No 1’s and Top 10’s. Pioneers of K-POP and J-POP smash hits, cutting edge writing and production, winner of numerous awards across the globe!
The smash hit and No.1 single for Ricky Martin “Vente Pa’Ca” has 1,6 billion views on YouTube and more than 600 million streams on Spotify, earning Dsign Music a SESAC Latin Award in 2017 and 2 nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards in 2017 (Song of The Year and Album of The Year). In March 2018 Dsign Music won the Norwegian Music Publishing Awards.
Trondheim Song:Expo was founded by Jenssen in 2011 and is known for being “World’s biggest songwriting camp”. Jenssen has later launched camps in other cities such as Seoul, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sofia and Stockholm.
In 2017, Jenssen launched the international music publishing company EKKO Music Rights Europe together with Mr. Soo-Man Lee (founder of Forbes A-listed Korean record label SM Entertainment) and Australian A&R veteran Hayden Bell (former A&R Executive of Sony Music).
EKKO Music Rights has already procured over 200 recordings across the globe and the company’s historical and first No.1 smash hit was scored in Japan in August 2016 with E-Girls (Avex). A follow up smash hit with Ricky Martin (Sony) was scored in 2017 and “Vente Pa’Ca” has since conquered the No.1 position in 14 countries as well as top positions at Billboard’s Latin Chart, Airplay Chart and iTunes Chart. EKKO have so far procured two No. 1 placements on US Billboard 200 with albums by SuperM (the 1st Mini Album) and BTS (Map of the Soul: 7).
Jenssen is a pioneer in the K-Pop world where his clients Dsign Music to date, are responsible for some of the most iconic and commercially successful hits in K-Pop’s history. Jenssen is a very experienced entrepreneur and music publisher, known internationally for his excellent strategic and entrepreneurial skills.
