Music Exchange
The world's largest offer of live music
About
We know music is central to your radio programming so you have easy access to first-class music and events through our Music Exchange.
Members can see the following reports when logged in:
2024 EBU Media Orchestras and Sustainability Survey
2023 Music Exchange Statistics
EBU Media Ensemble Survey 2023 - complete report
EBU Advocacy & Marketing - complete report
EBU Our Digital Future - complete report
2023 Production Resources in Classical Music Recordings
2022 Music Exchange Statistics
2022 Audience Calculator Classical Radio
With around 3,000 concerts by both leading and emerging artists shared every year, this is the world’s largest offer of live music. Covering all genres from classical and opera to folk, jazz, world, rock, pop and dance, we provide access to prestigious concerts and performances from venues across the globe to enrich the diversity and quality of your music offer.
Members request around 20,000 programmes from the Music Exchange every year, making it a cost-effective way of sharing the world’s best music with your audiences. Performances range from the BBC Proms and the New York Metropolitan Opera to Coldplay and Radiohead. We also organize several major music events and festivals every year, in conjunction with our Members, including Eurosonic and the Euroradio Folk Festival.
Partners
The Euroradio Music Exchange is a proud partner of Keychange, an international gender equality campaign which invests in emerging talent whilst encouraging music organisations to sign up to a gender balance pledge.
News
3 questions to conductor and harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock
British harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock has been pioneering the modern revival of early music...
3 questions to conductor Krista Audere
Conductor Krista Audere answered our 3 questions a few days before the concert she performed with the...
3 questions to composer Betsy Jolas
French-American composer Betsy Jolas (born 1926) was commissioned to write a new work – “Ces belles années”...
Special Programmes and Offers
Palma Ars Acustica
The Prix Palma Ars Acustica is an international competition organized by Euroradio Ars Acustica to promote and honour outstanding productions of authors in the world of Ars Acustica: radio art, sound art, media art, text sound compositions, electroacoustic music, electronics, live electronica, etc.
Euroradio Folk Festival
Promoting the cultural diversity of Europe through music exchanges. Kanteles, fiddles, accordions, balalaikas, throat singing, yodelling: these and many more can be heard at the annual Euroradio Folk Festival (EFF), where bands and artists redefine the frontiers of folk music through their ethno, jazz, traditional and crossover projects. More than a mere festival, this event is a platform presenting the incredible diversity of musical genres and sounds of all lifestyles in European folk music.
Euroradio Summer Festivals
For a quarter of a century, the Euroradio Summer Festivals have remained true to their goal of providing radio audiences with a selection of the best classical music, much of it live via satellite – symphony concerts, operas, chamber music and vocal recitals – from European festivals, both prestigious and lesser-known.
Music and Radio 60-Minute Sessions
Watch our series of online sessions aimed at the EBU Music community. We discuss radio and music challenges related to live-recorded music and radio production.
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Groups and Meetings
We have expert groups, communities and specialized meetings on subjects ranging across the musical genres. Find the right one for you:
Upcoming meetings
Contacts
Elana Solomon
Project Manager, Classical and Pop, EBUsolomon@ebu.ch
Julijus Grickevičius
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Classical Music, EBU
Laurent Marceau
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Popular Music, EBU
Mireia Pacareu Fauquier
Editor, Live Music and Projects, Classical Music, EBUpacareu@ebu.ch
Albina Belabiod
Project Manager, Classical Music, EBUbelabiod@ebu.ch