Sochi Winter Music Conference organizing committee are pleased to present the first participants and moderators of the day program. A well-known European blogger and DJ, as well as Amsterdam Dance Event business program curator Jonty Skrufff is joining the Conference in 2012.  He is going to run a Conference panel with top managers for the world’s leading booking agencies Bullitt, Main Stage Artists and Elite Music Management, and also to make the delegates introduced to the SWMC special guests –Pitch & Synch founder Alex Lavery,  Richard Ford of Angry Music and Duncan Smith of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Jonty Skrufff is one of the most brilliant analysts for European club and music business; blogger, DJ and the owner of an independent press agency. The subscribers of his web-page Skrufff.com get recent weekly news on the situation in the electronic music market, interviews with top DJs, producers and musicians. He is also a consultant for the annual European music conference Amsterdam Dance Event.

Jonty first visited Sochi Winter Music Conference in 2011. Six months later he gladly accepted SWMC organisers’ suggestion to lead the Conference day program in 2012.

Jonty has prepared two panels for Sochi Winter Music Conference. The first is called “Synching: how to make money on cinema (TV commercials and computer games)”. Three speakers have already applied for presenting their reports at the panel: the founder and creative director of Pitch & Synch company Alex Lavery, Richard Ford of Angry Music and Duncan Smith of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

“Duncan specializes in selecting music for computer games”, says Jonty. “His service record includes such hits as DanceStar Party and Wipeout. He has licensed tracks by Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadows and Noisia. Alex Lavery background comprises working for Wall of Sound and Moving Shadows, and producing Paul Epworth’s tracks. Then he established his own company and now is efficiently delivering music for cinema and television. He is an acknowledged expert in this sphere. Richard Ford deals with movies and television series. He selected tracks for CSI Miami, CSI NY and Gray’s Anatomy”.

Participants of the second panel, representatives of the world booking agencies Bullitt, MainStage Artists and Elite Music Management are going to talk on how Russian DJs and musicians can feel at home in the world market, how to get into the line-up of famous European festivals and how to correctly position themselves in the European market.

 Sochi Winter Music Conference is going to be held in Sochi on February 9 through 12, 2012.

The registration for the participants of the seventh Sochi Winter Music Conference has started.
Filling in the accreditation form on the Conference official web-page (www.swmc.ru) in advance, you can have an easier procedure of getting your SWMC personal badge and bracelet, as well as save both time and money.

Sochi Winter Music Conference, an imposing forum for music and club business professionals, is to be held within the period of February 9 through 12, 2012. It’s for the seventh time that the capital of the forthcoming Olympics will assemble all those people who are somehow connected with the entertainment industry. The conference provides them with a platform for communicating and sharing ideas.

By tradition, SWMC 2012 is going to consist of two parts: it’s a two-day business program and a night program represented by Russian and foreign music labels and promo groups.

Since November 7, 2011 accreditation form has been available at the Conference official web-page (www.swmc.ru). Filling in the form may simplify SWMC registration process.
Advance registration may considerably save up if you register before January 1, 2012.
Start-up price for the Conference participant bracelet is 2900 roubles.  

Once in a life Fortune knocks at every man’s door, but he usually sits at a bar and doesn’t hear it, as Mark Twain said. With the pace of time and the development of genetic engineering, nanotechnologies and space tourism, Fortune drops not only in bars but to night clubs as well. It was there at the events organized in support of SWMC 2011 that the winners of the ticket drawing held by Marlboro brand caught their luck. Marina Matrosova of Kaliningrad, Vera Varnakova, Ivan Radzievski, Natalia Tumanova, Nikita Vladimirov and Pyotr Yalov of Moscow are setting off for Sochi to be welcomed by music, interesting people, personal travel manager, VIP zones at parties and no less than an autograph signing session with Ravel Volya, conference special guest and headliner of I AM[NOW]@SWMC party.

Sochi Winter Music Conference goes on expanding its spheres of influence. Following the “law panel” and professional equipment exhibition, the organizing committee together with AL brand offers a new service. Within February 3 – February 6, each conference participant will be able to fill up his wardrobe with designer clothes holding enticing SWMC markings. The collection is made up of nice grain quality fabrics, and its models’ practicalness is sure to help tireless clubbers’ express their sporting nature and musical freedom.
The show room address: Morskoy pereulok, 2.

                                          


                                           

The series of parties held under the aegis of Marlboro clearly show a world famous cigarette brand’s ability to continually generate new innovative solutions in the clubbing industry. DJs whose sets can be heard at the brand’s events are outstanding personalities, and the music they play fully meets current European trends. On the threshold of Sochi Winter Music Conference, Marlboro people are showing readiness for the dialogue announcing the start of searching those “who have something to say”. Five ambitious DJ-beginners - of the full legal age and smoking – will be given a unique opportunity to present their reports at the round-table discussion organized by Marlboro in the framework of SWMC 2011. If you have always wanted to become famous and are dreaming of your own star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, with your ticket to the conference on you, make an abstract on your future report and send it in, together with your story, at info@swmc.ru. Five most challenging topics will be selected for the presentation, and their authors, together with such seasoned DJs as Mike Spirit, Grad, Rust and Arram Mantana, will set the tone for discussions presenting their reports at the round-table. Remember to send in your photo for the country to recognize you!

SWMC 2011 delegates were addressed with a welcoming letter by Boris Gusev, Director of Youth Policy and Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation. In his letter he says, ‘Club business represented by promoters, musicians, DJs has the ability to unite and energize youth. A professional and responsible approach to club leisure organization is an essential part in younger generation upbringing, which shouldn’t be set aside. A high technological level of holding the forum, as well as its interactivity, allows speaking of an innovative approach to meeting the conference challenges on the agenda. I am convinced that this conference will remain in your memory thanks to brilliant master classes and interesting meetings”.

Those who have already paid the registration fee and got tickets to Sochi have only to just rub hands, cross the days on the calendar and read latest news on the conference Internet site. Meanwhile, Marlboro brand goes on granting the conference tickets just for beautiful eyes and sharp mind. On Friday Moscow club-restaurant Shanti and Kaliningrad club Platinum will see nerve-strain reaching the peak, as two more tickets for Sochi Winter Music Conference are going to be drawn between adult smokers. Win and join the active young team of SWMC 2011 associates!

In mid-January SWMC official pre-parties start in twenty-one city of Russia. Saint-Petersburg and Kazan, Ekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Krasnodar, and Rostov-on-Don are to welcome Russian DJs whose names have been associated with SWMC for the sixth year running.

SWMC is a dignified forum for music and club business professionals being organised in Sochi now for the sixth time. Traditionally it is to be held at the first week-end of February at Marins Park Hotel and consist of two parts: business program and night section as series of parties, presented by famous music labels and promo groups.

For lots of clubbers, SWMC will start long before its official opening. Thanks to pre-party tour, not only Sochi residents and the delegates, but many electronic music lovers all over Russia can feel being involved in the Conference. The year 2011 is not an exception. The tour starts on January 15 in Saint-Petersburg and Saratov and finishes on January 29 by four parties in Rostov-on-Don, Nizhnekamsk, Stupino, Glazov and Perm. Twenty-one city of Russia is going to be involved in SWMC movement. Russian DJs Vladimir Fonerev, Cosmonaut, Grad, Kolya, Sanchez, Mike Spirit, Arkady Air, B-Voice, Rust, Flash and Swanky Tunes project are going to be headliners at the pre-parties.

Pre-party actual schedule can be found in pre-party section.

Don’t miss SWMC pre-party in your city!

You’ll never be bored at night during Sochi Winter Music Conference! Within the framework of SWMC 2011, the city will see round twenty parties with top Russian and foreign DJs and musicians including Vladimir Fonarev, DJ Groove, Spy,Der, Vladimir Trapeznikov, Grad, Kolya, DJ Pavel Volya & Tim Ivanov, DJ Feel, Ed Kosmonavt, Peyton, Andy Daniell, Jonty Skrufff and many other. 
Read more about SWMC 2011 Nighttime program

Major speakers for Sochi Winter Music Conference are determined. Time Out Moscow editor-in-chief Igor Shulinski, Amsterdam Dance Event general manager Richard Zijlma, head of Sochi Youth policy department Andrey Bezrodni, STS-Media editor-in-chief Alexey Kazakov, British label Defected Records A&P director Andy Daniell, and Intermedia director-general Evgeni Safronov are to present their speeches during daytime program of SWMC 2011.

Read more about Daytime program

Dear friends! We are glad to inform you that Sochi Winter Music Conference SWMC 2011 online registration and accreditations sale have started.

Filling in the registration form on the site in advance, you’ll get your name badge on arrival at the hall of Marins Park Hotel, on presenting your accreditation pay voucher. By the way, we offer a special price of 2,500 roubles till December, 31.  You can pay accreditation online through TicketStream or concert.ru, and you can do it in any «Evroset» outlet.