Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship

"""Artistic Citizenship requires knowledge and skills from Performing and Creative artists to make stage production relevant to contemporary societies. Professor Sønning’s authoritative book provides a unique combination of proven tools for creating value-based stage content in productions across genres and target groups. This book helps students and the cultural sector to develop their creative potential and find partners and jobs across societal sectors."" —Keld Hosbond, Principal Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Royal Academy of Music “Sønning´s book contains crucial interdisciplinary content, not found anywhere else. It is a guide to making supplementary competence teams between the creative and management sides of stage productions. Through Erasmus networks, I have seen the great benefit for business, management, visual art, graphic design, media, and music students combined.” —Prof. Dr Markus Raueiser, CBS Cologne “This book on Concert production and Creative Entrepreneurship is most timely. It comes at a time when the intersection between artistic expression and entrepreneurship presents major opportunities and challenges in practice, theory and research. Professor Andreas Sonning presents a comprehensive, careful, authoritative and thorough treatment of concert production through a cultural entrepreneurship and transdisciplinary lens. The book’s strength is in providing a multi actor value chain analysis of the production processes where success is based on the dynamic interaction between the players internally in the value chains and externally in larger value systems, all based on practical experience and examples throughout. This is a must read for students, musicians, professional artists, programme creators, researchers, educators, public and private bodies with an interest in supporting and developing cultural entrepreneurs” —Dr Breda Kenny, Head of School of Business, Munster Technological University. “A fascinating and in-depth guide into a performance stage production, written by an author who has spent a lifetime in the industry” —Nick Long, former head of the School for Fine Art, Graphic Design and Fashion, Solent University, Southampton. ""The contemporary music industries require broad skill sets where performance excellence must be combined with creative content development and insight into entrepreneurship revelant for stage artists. This book offers a unique overview with practical models to develop a sustainable career for musicians, program developers, cultural leaders and other stage artists"" —Emmanuel Bleuse, Solo Cellist Orquestra Simfonica de les Illes Balears Cutat de Palma, Spain. Cello Professor El Conservatori Superior de Musica de Illes Balears, Mallorca"