Welcoming a New Program Committee Member
Pelin Opcin is the Director of Serious, the organisation behind EFG London Jazz Festival which she leads. In addition to artistic direction of the Festival, she develops large-scale national or international projects, develops national tours, headline concerts, special collaborations and commissions and creative partnerships. She oversees the Talent Development programmes and has been pivotal to the strategy, programming and communication of digitalisation of Serious’ activities.
I am very excited and honoured to have received the invitation from my esteemed colleagues at Molde Jazz Festival, to be their International Advisor in their Programme Council. Molde Jazz Festival is one of the most established festivals in Europe and I am pleased to offer my knowledge and experience in international touring to this wonderful organisation. EFG London Jazz Festival and Molde Jazz Festival are fellow members in the International Jazz Festivals Organisation (IJFO) and we had been sharing insights in this group for more than 20 years already. UK jazz scene have been a major influence in global jazz circuits, and I also have a lot of interest in Norwegian Jazz scene. I have facilitated many occasions to work in collaboration with Norwegian talent in my career of over 25 years.
Having this official collaboration would hopefully create new dimensions in programming and would be beneficial to both of our festivals and cities.