Market Presentations: China, Japan, South Korea

w/ Eric Zhao (CN), Jung Hun Lee (KR) and Atsuko Yashima (JP)

Presented by Le Bureau Export as part of Asia in the Limelight [Focus Jazz] / (From) Home Export Days, in partnership with Korean Jarasum Jazz Festival and in collaboration with French festival Jazz Sous les Pommiers, the Embassy of France in Singapore, the French Institute in South Korea, the French Institute in Japan and the French Institute in China.

Eric Zhao, Lawyer of copyright law in China, vice president of JZ Music, and part-time jazz musician (China)

As a legal consultant for several of the world's top record labels, culture and entertainment companies, national institutions of arts, international manufacturers of music equipment, world renown music festival sponsors, famous music training organizations, and top level artists and musicians, his work consists of intellectual property protection and management, corporate compliance governance, contract risk review, foreign investment, and settling disputes of intellectual property rights agencies.

Eric Zhao is one of the few legal consultants of China’s entertainment and new media industries. He has written several widely read articles in concern of the many factors of intellectual property rights, specifically targeting the music industry, and is well known among the industry as a top legal consultant.

He has been invited as a special guest by the European Union Music and Culture organization LABA and the French embassy to visit France. And as result of his unique background in music and law, as well as his diligent yet humble approach to his work, has maintained friendships with several world renown and Grammy award winning musicians such as Marcus Miller and Jacob Collier.

Jung Hun Lee, Founder & Artistic Director of Seoul Music Week & Ulsan Jazz Festival (South Korea)

Jung Hun Lee is the founder and CEO of the Seoul Music Week (since 2016) and the Ulsan Jazz Festival (since 2000), and the president of GloMMnet, a network of international festivals and fairs. He is also a member of Korea-EU Cultural Cooperation Committee Advisor, the Jury of Arts Council Korea Competition Support Project and a board member of MusiConnect Asia.

Seoul Music Week hosts showcases, conferences and meetings. It is held annually at Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Seoul in mid-May. In the 2017 edition, Seoul Music Week hosted 57 showcases (37 Korean projects and 20 international projects), 250 musicians, 9 conferences and 110 speed meetings.

Created in 2000, the Ulsan Jazz Festival is held annually at Great Rock Park in Ulsan by the end of the summer. In this last edition, the festival hosted 15 concerts and over 5,000 people spent 5 days.

Jung Hun Lee is also the former Artistic Director of ACC World Music Festival and Asia Culture Market by ACC (National Asia Culture Center). He was also a professor at Young San University(Department of Cinema), Young Nam University Graduate School (Department of Arts Management & Administration)

Atsuko Yashima, Independent producer, ex-artistic director and producer at Tokyo Jazz Festival, ex-producer NHK Enterprises (Japan)

Atsuko has recently become an independent producer to focus on connecting Japan and the world through jazz, music and culture.

She had worked as a producer at NHK Enterprises, an affiliate of NHK, Japan’s public broadcast, where she launched the “Tokyo Jazz Festival” in 2002 and served as a producer/artistic director for 15 years. While inviting jazz stars from around the globe, she also worked to introduce jazz from various countries and created projects such as “French Jazz Quarter in Japan”, “Japan-Australia Jazz Orchestra”, “Dutch Jazz Garden”, “Jazz Cruise Norway” and more. She also curated local jazz festivals in Japan such as “Iwate Jazz Festival”, “Live in Fukushima”, etc and brought international stars to the region. She also collaborated with overseas jazz festivals such as “Jazztopad” in Poland, “Jazz a Vienne” in France, “Copenhagen Jazz Festival” in Denmark to exchange artists and the jazz culture.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, she created “Music for Tomorrow” project and produced events and broadcast programs to encourage the people of the devastated areas through music. The project fruited in presenting “Music for Tomorrow” concerts in various cities in the world such as Fukushima, New York, New Orleans and Strasbourg.

She also produced diverse international culture events such as “Marche de Noel de Strasbourg in Tokyo”: a project to bring the most established Christmas Market in Europe to Japan, “Shibuya Friendship Festival”: a festival celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo.

After becoming independent this May, Atsuko produced to reboot the “Music for Tomorrow” project aiming to encourage people’s spirits in the most difficult times: this time the Covid-19, by inviting legendary musicians online such as Chick Corea, Bob James, Sadao Watanabe, Makoto Ozone and more.

Currently, Atsuko is creating next international events to introduce Japan to the world and the world to Japan through jazz, music and culture. She is also working to promote international artists to Japan and dispatch Japanese artists overseas.

Le Bureau Export

Since 1993, Le Bureau Export has worked to develop popular and classical music made in France on an international scale. Thanks to financial resources from both professional and institutional partners, Le Bureau Export has built a worldwide network aimed at facilitating exchanges between French and foreign music professionals.Le Bureau Export is a member of EMEE-European Music Exporters Exchange.

Asia In The Limelight [Focus Jazz] | Market presentations (CN, JP, KR)