Our Mission

E-R Music Commission promotes and supports the music industry and the development of its artists and emerging artists in the field of pop, rock, electronic, jazz, world and experimental music.

It is aimed at professionals active in the music market (new artists and bands, record labels, press offices, publishing companies, booking, promotion, concert organizations, and music production agencies) who wish to be accompanied in their path of production, distribution, and promotional development to a national and also international level.

Emilia-Romagna, along the entire route of the Via Emilia which goes from the city of Piacenza to Rimini, can count on a great number of artists, small and large music producers, labels, publishers, clubs, and festivals in a widespread manner and not only around the regional capital Bologna that is, among other things, a Unesco Creative City of Music and is therefore included by right within a global network related to Music.

The export office is the latest function added to the services run by the Music Commission in strict collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

OUR ACTIVITIES IN 2025

• BACK TO JAZZAHEAD! TO PROMOTE THE JAZZ SCENE OF EMILIA-ROMAGNA
  From April 24 to 26 in Bremen, during the world’s leading international jazz trade fairEmilia-Romagna Music Commission and ATER Fondazione, as part of their shared music export activities, are preparing to travel for the second consecutive year to Bremen, where from April 24 to 26, jazzahead! will take place — an unmissable event for the international jazz industry and an exceptional venue for high-quality contemporary jazz from Germany, Europe, and around the world.
  In Bremen, we will be partners in the ITALY@JAZZAHEAD! Pavilion (stand 6D02-6D06), sharing the space with: Puglia Sounds, a project by the Puglia Region supporting local music professionals and artists; Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, a Regional Multidisciplinary Circuit promoting live performing arts across the Piemonte region; i-jazz, an association committed to promoting jazz in Italy and abroad; and Italia Jazz Club, the national association of Italian jazz clubs.
  This second appearance at jazzahead! reinforces the regional music export office’s focus on jazz and its ecosystem, and continues a path of international promotion for professionals and their work.
  ⇒ THE DELEGATION OF EMILIA-ROMAGNA AT JAZZAHEAD! 2025

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• ESNS 2025: FROM 15 TO 18 JANUARY THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON ITALY
  From 15 to 18 January, ESNS offers the opportunity to get in touch with the most important players in the European music system and trendsetters in the sector, as well as attend the showcases of the most interesting emerging musical projects.
  This edition puts the spotlight on Italy, selected as Focus Country in 2025. This means greater attention to the music market of our country within the daytime program of the conference and a greater presence of artists on the stages in the evening program of the festival in front of an audience of professionals in the sector, media and music lovers.
  Representing Emilia-Romagna there will be: Daniela Pes, nominated for the Music Moves Europe Awards as best emerging artist, James Jonathan Clancy, R.Y.F. and España Circo Este.
  ⇒ THE DELEGATION OF EMILIA-ROMAGNA AT ESNS 2025
  ⇒ OUR ARTISTS AT ESNS 2025

OUR ACTIVITIES IN 2024