Fruzsina Szép, Hungary Music Export Office/ Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary www.sziget.hu

Fruzsina Szép is the program director of the Sziget Festival.  She is also the founding director of the Hungarian Music Export office and of the RegiON Music Conference. She has 15 years experience as an artistic and cultural manager. She started her career as a manager of several Hungarian groups such as the Muzsikás Ensemble, Márta Sebestyén, Besh o droM, Mitsoura. She was a music curator in several Hungarian Cultural Seasons. She lived in Brussels where she worked as a director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute. She established and runs several national and international projects with Music Export Hungary such as the Roots&Routes Talent Development program, the Professional Area&Lounge at the Sziget Festival or Hangfoglalás/Soundquest - the first music and instrument fair in Hungary and the RegiON Music Conference and RegiON Live CEE Club Festival which is focused on Hungarian and Eastern-European music acts and music professionals. She grew up in Germany, Australia, Canada and Guatemala but she has been based in Budapest since few years. Her main goal is to help to build up a well structured link between the Eastern and the Western European Music Market.
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