IAMA - HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD" 2018 is awarded to CHRISTIAN MAY

The "IAMA - HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD" for 2018 is awarded to CHRISTIAN MAY

The international music and artist manager CHRISTIAN MAY receives this years "IAMA - HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD"
The prestigious award, which has been given to twelve music managers worldwide only since the foundation of the "International Artist Managers' Association - IAMA", was presented to Christian May in London by IAMA chair Aino Turtiainen.
The award counts among the most coveted accolades in the field of music management and is given in recognition of outstanding services to the profession by a manager.

"The HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD is only awarded from time to time and is IAMA's highest honour in recognition of services to the profession." (IAMA - 2018)

CHRISTIAN MAY, born in Munich, studied composition and conducting as well as International Law in Munich, Vienna and London.
Following his studies he worked as musical assistant and later as tour manager for various opera and orchestra tours. In 1991 he founded the concert agency MELOS KONZERTE in Vienna. The agency's focus is the general management of conductors and soloists, the organization of orchestra tours and recording projects. Since 2010 the agency has a subdivision dealing exclusively with film music recordings, working mainly for clients in France, Italy and the UK.

In 2013 he set up a joined venture HSO PRODUCTIONS with partners in France and Hungary for the production of orchestra recordings, which counts labels like UNIVERSAL, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, NAXOS and CLAVES among its clients.
Christian May is artistic advisor for a number of festivals and orchestras in Europe and South America. He acted as jury member for competitions in Switzerland, Italy, Mexico and Portugal, has been for various years on the jury of the MIDEM CLASSICAL AWARD in Cannes and was lecturer for Arts Management at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
He has been on the advisory board of CLASSICAL NEXT, is a member of the "Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion - FACP" as well as a board member of the „Classical Music Artists Directory“.

The "INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION " (IAMA) is the only worldwide association for classical music artist managers. The Association was founded as the British Association of Concert Agents in 1954 until January 1996 when, due to its international membership list, it changed its status to an international association.
IAMA has presently more then 300 members worldwide (artist management companies, presenters, orchestras, opera companies, festivals and venues) and strives to raise professional standards in the business of music. It acts as a lobbying body within member territories as well as facilitating information exchange within its network of members.
Since 1991 there has been an annual international conference now recognised as one of the premiere forums in the classical music world.

Eleonore Schmidt (PR & Media)

MELOS KONZERTE
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A-1030 Wien

Tel: +43-1-7149196
mail: es@melos.at

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