Sounds Australia Promotes Esti Zilber to Executive Producer

Esti Zilber is Millie Millgate’s successor at Sounds Australia.

With an announcement issued late Wednesday, Nov. 1, Zilber was promoted to govt producer on the nationwide music export physique, efficient from Monday, Nov. 20.

Zilber joined Sounds Australia again in 2010, and labored intently with Millgate within the subsequent years to “develop and ship” the organisation’s program at occasions and gatherings dotted across the globe.

“Her work with inbound consumers throughout Australia’s home music conferences has seen hundreds of invaluable connections made between worldwide trade and native artists and managers,” reads an announcement asserting her promotion.

Throughout peak-COVID in 2021 and 2022, Zilber managed Sounds Australia’s Export Stimulus Program, which noticed $1.2 million distributed throughout three rounds to over 320 people Australian artists, crew and music professionals, all of whom had been struggling because of the shutdown.

“Esti has been such an integral a part of the expansion of Sounds Australia during the last 13 years and I’m really excited for the way forward for this system realizing what a compassionate and formidable chief she might be,” feedback Millgate. “Sounds Australia is in extraordinarily protected arms.”

Zilber’s elevation intently follows the appointment Millgate because the inaugural director of Music Australia, established by the Australian Authorities as a part of Artistic Australia, to help and promote the Australian modern music trade to extend discoverability and develop markets and audiences.

“It’s a privilege to comply with in Millie’s footsteps, constructing on the pathways she has cast to ship worldwide success for a lot of of our trade’s most recognisable exports,” feedback Zilber in an announcement. “I stay up for embracing this subsequent chapter in my profession and main the Sounds Australia group as we brace ourselves for the brand new frontiers in selling Australia’s music globally.”

Within the meantime, Sounds Australia has kickstarted a recruitment course of to fill the house created by Zilber’s promotion.