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Nastia Barkan is a Day-to-Day manager at Friends At Work, based in Los Angeles, California. She is responsible for managing the professional career of Charlie Puth and has previously worked alongside artists such as Swedish House Mafia, One Republic, Sigma & more. Learn more about her journey into Artist Management and how lockdown changed aspects of her role.
Gary Calamar discusses how his career as a music supervisor started, from hanging out at record stores in The Bronx as a young boy with his older brother to working with G. Marq Roswell on his first film project “Slums Of Beverly Hills”. Learn more about his music taste with his radio show over on 88.5 FM and how he stays on the top of his game in finding new music and keeping in the know.
Brian Vickers tells us about his triumphs, challenges and aspirations as a music supervisor at Walt Disney Studios, what he looks for when selecting music, and advice for aspiring future supervisors - ‘research is key’! Find out his favourite current artists and what inspired him to pursue music supervision as a career.
Òscar Senén chats to us about his exciting career working alongside Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe as an orchestrator on films/series such as No Time To Die, The Crown (Netflix) and The Lego Batman Movie. In his own right, Oscar is a composer and has recently provided additional music for ‘The Monkey King’ an anticipated film in China.
Learn more about the career of ITV Creative Alex Dickinson. He discusses his route into filmmaking working at production and advertising agencies, his leading involvement in ‘Towie or Not Towie’ and how he’s using his time in lockdown to work on his short film ‘Still, In Love’.
In this industry insights feature, we chatted to Artist Manager Ellie Abbott over Zoom to discuss her job managing the career of electronic artists such as Duke Dumont, Kelis, Hayden James and FARR at Red Light Management. She discusses how her career evolved, originally working within the events sector and offers advice to aspiring artist managers.
Chromium Music Group chatted with J.J. Kelley about his outstanding career working as a film director and host. He discusses how his career began, his show ‘Lost in the Wild’ and he gives advice to budding filmmakers wanting to embark on a career in the film industry.
Management Assistant Davide Venti chats to Chromium Music about his role at 37 Degrees Management.
Emmy nominated Music Supervisor, Jen Malone, chats to Chromium Music Group about her extraordinary career working on productions such as Umbrella Academy and Euphoria. Learn more about her incredible journey in this industry insights.
We chatted to the founder of Secret Sessions, Harriet JW in this Industry Insights. Secret Sessions has grown from strength to strength since it was established, by working with artists that are shaping culture and building audiences both online and in the real world. In this interview, Harriet discusses her responsibilities and involvement as founder and emphasises her commitment to addressing the gender imbalance in the music industry, stating Secret Sessions is a female first music platform with 60% of the artists they work with being women.
Owen Cutts is a writer and producer who has recently worked with artists such as Stormzy on his latest record ‘Heavy is the Head’ and Empara Mi. He has just released his own track ‘Weekdays’ under his artist name Mr Cutts. He chats to Chromium about his career and how he approaches writing with artists of different styles.
Photographer Bree Hart had an exciting 2019 touring with BRIT Winner Lewis Capaldi. She chats to Chromium Music Group about life on the road, what it was like to shoot at Glastonbury and offers advice to beginners wanting to pursue a career as a Tour Photographer.
Learn more about the world of music PR with specialist George Percy as he discusses his experience and shares his knowledge of working for 10 years within the industry as Label Manager, Artist Manager and now as Senior Account Manager at WildKat PR.
Opera singer Nadine Benjamin discusses the importance of self-discipline as a form of self-love and discusses her phenomenal journey from the finance industry to opera. Read more to learn about her love and passion for music, neuroscience and mentoring!
Chromium Music Group’s first Industry Insight of the decade is with BT Sport’s Head of Music - Pete Kelly. Read more to learn about the world of music supervision.
Check out this inspiring and wholesome interview with Sky Creative and passionate cyclist Gareth Winter.
James Carslake chats to Chromium about his role as Head of Music overseeing the global music strategy for All3Media whilst also touching upon his experience working at Sony ATV Publishing.
Baba Adefuye chats to Chromium in this Industry Insight feature about his journey as a composer and how he approaches and adapts to projects of different genres. Read to find out more!
Film Composer Tom Howe, known for his work on The Great British Bake Off and Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon, sits down to chat with Chromium about the biggest challenges of composing for film and media in the latest industry Insights feature.
Dael Poulter is a Director with extensive experience across documentary and commercial projects. In this Industry Insights feature, Dael chats to Chromium Music Group about his creative quirks and his latest project with heavyweight champion David Haye.
Empara Mi chats to Chromium Music Group about her success with sync, latest single ‘Ditch’ and her brand new video for her beautiful song ‘Shine on You’.
Chromium’s Creative Sync Coordinator chats about her role in the world of Sync, what is on her bucket list and her box-set binge list.
Dan Coffey has worked closely with Chromium Music Group over the past 12 months, filming behind the scenes footage at recording sessions held at AIR and Abbey Road Studios. We sat down to chat to him as part of the Industry Insight series to understand his creative inspiration, get to know his guilty pleasures and learn how he troubleshooting process.
Industry Insights #2. Joseph Phibbs chats to Chromium about his career as a composer, how he overcomes writers block and the inspiration behind his latest works 'Night Songs’.
Recording Engineer Adam Miller sits down with Chromium to chat about working with some of the industry’s biggest names at AIR studios. He began his career at AIR back in 2008, after graduating from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts with a degree in Sound Technology. Over 11 years he has worked on projects such as The Hunger Games, Sherlock Holmes and Pirates of the Caribbean with composers including Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard and John Powell.
Bruce Tweedie, Managing Director at Music Mill in Australia is possibly the longest-serving continuous participant in any music supervision company specialising in advertising campaigns anywhere in the Asia Pacific region. In this Industry Insights feature, he discusses his journey from a big corporate executive with a background in sales, marketing and psychology to the now expert in songs and advertising.