Mental health and recovery post-covid : taking care of yourself and get back into the fight, is it possible ?

Clinical psychologist, certified trainer in skills assessment, co-director, secretary, founding member, speaker, she graduated with a Master's degree in clinical psychology (UFR Etudes Psychanalytiques Paris 7) and a Master's degree in Aesthetic Philosophy (Paris 4).

Today she manages projects in the pop music industry and provides consulting and training in career management and development at the Studio des Variétés for the Fonds de Professionnalisation et de Solidarité Audiens.

Editrice, juriste de formation, Marie commence sa carrière de directrice artistique dans les éditions chez PolyGram. Elle travaillera ensuite pour des gros et des petits labels et montera sa propre société de promotion et de management. De 2000 à 2009, Marie a été directrice artistique chez BMG Music Publishing France et, de 2009 à fin 2019, Vice Presidente A&R de BMG Publishing & Recordings.

Dans cette dernière fonction, BMG étant devenu un label en plus d’une société d’édition, les signatures et productions pour le label étaient également sous sa responsabilité.
Depuis son départ début 2020, Marie a rejoint l’INSAART (Institut National de Soin et d’Accompagnement des Artistes et Techniciens) avec une équipe de psychologues, psychiatres et formateurs et dont elle est la fière présidente !

Julien is a Paris-based music producer and publisher.

He co-founded Cura in 2019, a collective project centered about the topics of health and well-being in the music industry, for artists and professionals around them.

Cura is a collective project around the health and well-being of artists and professionals in the music industry. Co-founded in 2019, this project released a two-part study to share numbers on this topic. Cura also offers a directory of accessible and specialized professionals for musicians, in many cities in France.

Franziska Lauter, DIPL. PYCHOLOGIST, MUSICIAN, SPEAKERIN, AUTHOR, CO-FOUNDER OF MIM - MENTAL HEALTH IN MUSIC

Since 2013 Franziska Lauter has been running her own practice in the middle of Berlin as a graduate psychologist. She is specialized in the psychology of psychology creativity and offeres councelling to people, especially from the music industry. She was a guest lecturer in Musician Psychology and works as a consultant for different organisations and labels. Before that she worked as a full-time music producer and singer and toured around the world as part of many projects. In 2020 she co-founded the MiM Association which is concerned with mental health in the music industry. In 2021 she released an audio book "Die unsichtbare Dirigentin" on the psychology of creativity.

Immersed since childhood in the performing arts and more specifically in music,

Priscille Alber took over the co-directorship of ASMV, which manages the Club Chat Noir and the Voix de Fête festival in Geneva, Switzerland. Her experience as an administrator, A.D, accountant, and manager have allowed her to perfect her skills in the organization working on several important projects both on the human and logistical levels.

She has always been a horse lover and has been involved in several disciplines: equestrian shows, including a short stint with the Zingaro equestrian theater, and Equipedagogy. In 2022, she created the equestrian chalet Gaïana "Terre des possibles" with her partner Noga, at the top of the Môle mountain in Haute Savoie. This place of healing allows to take care of oneself in contact with animals (horses, goats, rabbits,...) and aims to welcome artists in creative work (writing, music,...), post-tour (resourcing), ...
The "Voice and Horse" workshops were created in 2022.

After his training in jazz drums at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Fabian Hidalgo starts a professional career as a musician in 2008. First on the jazz scene, then towards rock and French chanson he recorded several albums for his bands A Boy With A Beard, Baby Fire and Brümes. Active within Facir (French-speaking federation of musicians) since the beginning in 2013, he becomes the coordinator in 2016 and strengthens his knowledge of the Belgian musical and cultural environment.

Facir offers its members information on current regulations and legal support. Very active on the issue of the status of artist, Fabian Hidalgo is a member of the Chambre de Concertation des Musiques and the Conseil Supérieur de la Culture, two consultative bodies of the Walloon-Brussels Federation, of the board of directors of PlayRight and represents Belgium within the IAO (International Artist Organisation, a European umbrella organisation that gathers 10 federations representing performing musicians).

Joé Hass is Head of the Music Unit of the Department of Creation and Artistic Promotion at the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg.

The Ministry of Culture develops and implements the government's national and international cultural policy. In addition to the execution of the national policy for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, it develops artistic creation and supports international promotion of artists and cultural actors.

To this end, the Ministry maintains agreements with Luxembourg's cultural actors, while developing and implementing support instruments such as the subsidy system, or social aid for independent professional artists and intermittent performers.

D’origine suisse et rwandaise, Jocelyne Rudasigwa a grandi à Lausanne où elle étudie la
contrebasse classique au conservatoire après avoir longuement hésité avec le théâtre. Elle
se perfectionne par la suite à la Hochschule de Bâle. Les différentes productions auxquelles
elle participe l’amène à renouer très vite avec ses anciennes amours et elle lie toutes ses
disciplines dans son projet solo depuis 2016.

Par ailleurs, elle se produit dans différentes formations privilégiant la musique d’aujourd’hui,
aussi bien dans le classique et le jazz que la musique dite populaire et l’improvisation
(Boulouris 5, Eustache, Fanny Anderegg New Quartet).

Jocelyne Rudasigwa est cheffe de projet musique contemporaine chez Sonart depuis 2019
et elle enseigne la contrebasse au conservatoire de Fribourg.
En outre, elle vient de terminer une formation de coaching spécialisé en neurosciences (INA)
et développe cette nouvelle compétence spécifiquement dans le domaine musical.