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Jiří Erlebach

Cover & Synch Administrator / Czech Republic & Slovakia

Graduating from Technical University in Liberec, Jiří holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. After a brief visit to Czech Army, as a Sergeant, he made his way to HR Departments, working mainly as a Head Hunter, or HR Manager.
Then, in November 2012, he joined our Czech office, as a temporary deputy of Jiřina during her maternity leave. Although with no experience in the music business, Jiří proved himself and became a proper member of our team in September 2013. He is responsible mainly for covers & sync clearing and other active work.
Privately, he spends much time writing as a blogger, loves gardening and bookkeeping(!) and is passionate about music.

Jiřina Petrová

Managing Director / Czech Republic & Slovakia

Out of 25 years in the music industry, she spent 23 of them in the publishing business – 9 years as Publishing Manager at Universal Music Publishing s.r.o. (Czech Republic) and 14 years with Schubert Music Publishing CZ.

Now, Jiřina is the Managing Director of SMP Czech Republic overseeing our operations in the territory of Slovakia as well.

Since 2004, she is also very active at OSA (Czech PRO) – being, over the years, a deputy member then proper member of live performances and distribution rules committees.
Now, since 2013, Jiřina is a Board member and the Head of the Distribution Rules Committee at OSA.
Jiřina is also well-known for her passion for dresses. Her collection of self-designed, self–made outstanding designs still surprises us.

Florin Petrescu

Marketing Manager / Romania

Dan Muraru

Managing Director / Romania

Dan is a 25 year music industry professional, enthusiastic biker and skier, proud co-founder of Schubert Music Publishing Romania and also of Roton Group of companies.

Katarzyna Jurys

Central Copyright / Poland

Kasia is a microbiologist, graduated from Warsaw University of Life Science. She started working at Schubert Music in 2006, being a student yet dreaming about a scientific career. (Un)fortunately the reality proved to have nothing in common with dreams. The result of which is 13-years connection to music publishing. Starting as the office manager, through the copyright assistant, music base supervisor and synchronization manager, today Kasia – still at SMP – takes care of income tracking.

Kasia’s hobby is knitting and crocheting.

Marzena Masłowska

Schubert Music Library / Poland

An educated instrumental musician – a cellist. After graduation, Marzena worked in several orchestras as a tutti musician. As a session and entertainment musician she participated in many recordings of theatre and movie music.

As a surprise, Marzena took up a position in the National Museum in Warsaw as a historical and musical educator and guide. For the last three years, she co-founded the Sirens company, where she was a music consultant and a publisher. She is also the manager of electro group – Melika from Wrocław and the Vinyl String Quartet. She has been working at Schubert Music Publishing since 2019 taking care of the catalog of production music. Privately, she is passionate about traveling … far and near.

Paweł Nowakowski

Programming (S-Count) / Poland

After graduating from University of Ecology and Management where he studied Computer Science and Econometrics, Paweł took up some additional studies at Warsaw Polytechnic and joined our central office in Poland to help with the development of S-Count. After the first couple of months it became clear that with his versatile and goal–orientated mind, he will help the team in many other areas including copyright and royalty accounting.

When not at work, Paweł is constantly busy learning a new language to master 6 of them. At the moment only French and Russian are left.

Mariola Świderska

Head of Financial/Bookkeeping / Poland

Mariola joined the Schubert Music Publishing team in 2009. From the beginning of her career in the company she has been dealing with the financial area, currently being the Head of Financial / Bookkeeping. She graduated from the University of Economics in Wroclaw. Mariola holds Master’s degree in International Business and Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting and Financial Control. In her spare time, she can’t stop exploring: she runs, rides a bike and travels a lot, stopping only occasionally to catch up on some reading and watching old movies.

Paweł Strach

Copyright Manager/Income Tracking / Poland

Educated to be a physics teacher, Paweł proved publishing might be equally interesting and addictive. He joined Schubert Music Publishing in 2009 to support our copyright team. For the first nine years he was successfully dealing with all administrative issues, starting from work and agreement registration, counterclaims solving and finally broke through to income tracking which seems to be perfect place to be for Paweł, with his uncompromising attitude, attention to detail and analyzing skills.
Paweł is also passionate about cycling and cooking, believing eating is equally irresistible.

Michał Marciniewski

Copyright Assistant / Poland

Before 2013, Michał had only a vague idea of what a music publisher does. He is now specializing in copyright administration, being responsible for agreements registration and distribution, work registration and data processing. Whenever needed, Michał also supports our copyright team in the Polish office dealing with various ad-hoc issues. Right after work he goes rock climbing, sailing or rides his beloved motorbike.

Marta Żukowska

Copyright Manager / Poland

Marta joined the Schubert Music team in 2010 (at the last year of her studies). She studied Food Technology and Human Nutrition at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Now, apart from being our in-house nutrition advisor, she is one of the main copyright people in the company with an extensive knowledge of our system. Marta is also responsible for future development of S-Count.

When not at work, Marta enjoys travelling, sports and mountain hiking.

Magdalena Kowalczyk

Head Of Copyright / Poland

Magda graduated from the Higher School of Communication and Social Media in Warsaw, and also holds a degree in Journalism and Political Science from Warsaw University. She started her career in the music business at Warner Music Poland where, for five years, she was dealing with licenses and synch deals. Magda joined Schubert Music Publishing in 2009 as one of the copyright managers. Today Magda is The Head of Copyright, making sure all copyright queries raised by our clients, partners and societies are attended to, all deal terms are correctly implemented into our database and supervising all other administrative processes in the office.

Perfect in French, elle aime le cinéma français, with special emphasis on comedies. Apart from that, Magda really enjoys the woods and is an expert in mushroom picking.

Tomasz Błocki

Creative Services / Poland

A lawyer by training, musician by passion; Thomas gave up working in law firms to pursue his dream of working in the music industry. For the past two and a half years he worked as a music supervisor, successfully selecting music for all kinds of TVC and feature films, and is a keen follower of tech music solutions within the industry.

Tomek joined Schubert Music in 2018 to help us with various aspects of the creative services SMP provides, devoting much of his time to S-Tunes development and making sure the database is constantly up to date.

Róża Oremek

Vice President / Creative Services / Poland

Róża holds a degree in Advertisement and Copyright Law. She joined Schubert Music Publishing in 2004 where she is now the Head of Central Creative Services, being responsible for the organization of all creative services including selecting and licensing music to various projects and sustaining good working relationships with our authors and artists.

Privately, a natural born fan of Elvis Presley, she loves literature, travelling and photography.

Róża believes work can be a passion but can’t imagine her life without a good cuisine and Granda!

Granda

/ Poland

Granda (Brussels Griffon) joined Schubert Music Publishing at the beginning of 2013. Her main task is to support creative staff, but she is also responsible for the creation of positive working atmosphere in the office.

Somewhere between the naps, Granda consults and supervises the process of locating the right songs in synch projects. Privately, a big fan of travelling and an avid collector of balls and plush squirrel toys.

Robert Barański

Central Royalty Accounting Manager / Poland

Passionate about history with a Degree in Archeology, Robert decided to spend his time digging deep in royalties. He started in 1997 at BMG as Royalty & Copyright Specialist, being responsible for the Artists royalty distribution, then in 2000 he met Andreas and joined him at Koch, eventually becoming one of the first three co-workers at Schubert Music Publishing. Through all these years at SMP Robert proved his combination of attention to detail and endless tenacity makes him a perfect royalty manager.

Krzysztof Brejnak

Head of Central Royalty Accounting / Poland

Krzysztof holds a degree in economics from SGH Warsaw School of Economics. Prior to joining SMP in 2010 he worked briefly in journalism and consulting. Interested in a wide variety of topics including science, philosophy and critical thinking.

Krzysztof is now a Head of Royalty Accounting in SMP Central Office overseeing all accounting operations of the company, including the production of financial reports, maintenance of an adequate system of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls.

Marta Zgrzywa

COO

Marta gave up her career as a language teacher in 2000 to explore the world of music publishing. For the first seven years she was part of the BMG Music Publishing team, working as a copyright and royalty manager. Then, in 2007, Marta joined Schubert Music Publishing, now being responsible for the central office organization, and she also takes care of the international development of the whole Schubert Music Group.

Marta holds degrees in English Philology from Świętokrzyski University and in Journalism and Political Science from Warsaw University. She also got a Postgraduate Diploma on Copyright Law from Warsaw University.

Agnes Krieg

Copyright & Royalties / Hungary

Now, with 21 years experience in the music industry, Agnes was, from the start of the company, supporting EMI Music Publishing Hungary as copyright & licensing manager. After 16 years she joined an independent company representing the EMI catalogue for the territories of Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic and finally in 2015 found her way to Schubert Music Hungary. As a copyright manager, Agnes focuses on catalogue registrations and tracking. She is also the self-styled music service provider in the office.

Gusztav Stiedl

Managing Director / Hungary

Gusztav started to work in the music industry as Special Project manager at Polygram in 1998. Two years later he joined Koch Music Publishing led by Andreas Schubert. Since the start in 2003, he is the MD and A&R of Schubert Music Publishing Kft, Warner Chappell Music Hungary and EMI Publishing Hungary.
His complex and deep knowledge about copyright and the music industry makes him an outstanding expert of publishing. He deals with the accountings, administration, royalties, contracts and copyright with the same passion as with the Artists SMP works with. Due to his cooperation with local society (Artisjus) and especially good relationships with the bigger and smaller market players he became an influencer of the Hungarian music scene. He has great communication with Hungary’s most fruitful and talented writers, giving the support to their work. However, he also enjoys linking Hungarian musicians with international Artists and possibilities. He is truly committed to the music industry.

Eric Burton

Head of Artist Management & Promotion (Celsius Management / Hardbeat Promotion) / A&R / Co-Labelhead Freakwave / Germany

Eric started his journey into the music business about 30 years ago, releasing 9 albums with his alternative band and touring all over the world for 25 years and then

working at the legendary promotion company Public Propaganda – being head of the alternative promotion department Hardbeat since 1997 for almost 15 years.

He then joined forces with Schubert Music Publishing, running their German office based in Hamburg, followed by the foundation of Schubert Music’s own label SMILE Records and the takeover of Celsius Management, currently with 12 artists from, Rock to Pop, on their roster.

Eric Burton is a middle man in between publishing (Schubert Music Publishing), promotion (Hardbeat and Celsius Promotion), label (SMILE Records) and Management (Celsius Management).

Andreas Schubert

CEO

A trained book-seller / publisher, starting right after the fall of the iron curtain, his first music company in Poland (Edition Schubert), grew to become one of the largest distributors and a very successful local label.

After selling the company to Koch International, Andreas became responsible for all of their Central and Eastern European (CEE) operations.

In 2003 Andreas established the new Schubert Music Publishing company, which quickly became the leading music publisher in CEE, to be followed by the opening of local branches in most Western European territories and the USA.

Investing in other music services besides publishing – like promotion, management and labels – Andreas always took care of keeping the company truly independent. Therefore Schubert Music Europe and all related companies are exclusively owned by Andreas and the leading co-workers of the company.

Michael Hafen

Bookkeeping / Germany

Since 2013 Michael, equipped with sole power of representation, is holding responsibility for the accountancy of all German subsidiaries of the Schubert Music Group.

Alex Cortay

Managing Director / France

Alex has joined SMP France as Sync and A&R Manager after collaborating and consulting for Schubert Music Publishing as a freelance and sync broker for a few years.
With 20 years of experience in the music industry, Alex started his career writing about music for Press and Web as well as working as Head of Programming and Music Coordinator for the French Student Radio Federation.
For 10 years he was running PR agency Magnetic Promoters (working for Warp, Record Makers, Rhymesayers, !K7, F Communications among others) and established the independent label Asphalt Duchess (Grizzly Bear, Psapp, Mondkopf, The Embassy, François-Eudes Chanfrault).

Boyana Bounkova

Managing Director / Bulgaria

Boyana founded the Bulgarian subsidiary of Schubert Music Publishing in 2004. Beforejoining the Schubert Music Publishing team she worked for a number of law firms and also for the Bulgarian licensees of Universal Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing. She has been a managing director of Schubert Music Publishing in Bulgaria from the very beginning.

In addition to her role at Schubert Music Publishing, she continues to work as an attorney.

Boyana holds an LLM degree from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, a Postgraduate Diploma on Copyright and Patents Law from Queen Mary, University of London, UK and an LLM degree in IP and Technology Law from University of San Francisco, School of Law.

Bill Murphy

Managing Director / USA

Bill is a broadly experienced administrator for major music publishers and record companies with management background in copyright administration, licensing, audits and royalties, though he has worked in every step of the modern music publishing process. Bill has worked with companies including Bug Music, Universal Music Publishing, Universal Music Group, Virgin Records, and Pacific Electric Music Publishing. Having worked with larger and smaller catalogs he has always kept his priority to working as an advocate for the artist.

Sebastián Ruiz-Tagle

Repertoire Manager Spain & Latin America / Spain

Sebastián is a chilean musician and music agent resident in Barcelona since 2017. He has been composer and performer in numerous bands of the chilean rock scene, and has integrated the work team of a list of labels and associations of the independent music industry, both in America Latina as in Spain. He also acted as coordinator of music strategic projects for the Ministry of Culture in Chile, and as a consultant for other public and private organizations related to the promotion and development of musical activity.

As Repertoire Manager of Schubert Music Publishing for Spain and Latin America, Sebastián is in charge of establishing exchange channels and finding development opportunities for music between Europe and the Latin American region.

Sebastián holds a degree in Sociology and a Master in Music as Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Barcelona.

Ina Schulz

Head of International Product Management / Labelhead Unique Records / Manager Unique Musikverlag / Germany

Henrik Guemoes

Managing Director / Head of Recorded Music / Germany

Henrik has worked as an A&R Manager in music business since the mid 90’s.  In the 13 years at EMI Music Pubilishing he was able to build a strong network and knowledge of the music market. Starting in 2008 this enabled him to be part of a string of very successful bands, artists and projects for record companies like Starwatch Entertainment, Warner Music, Universal and Sony Music.
Most recently Henrik has been A&R Director for the Labels RCA Deutschland and Ariola at Sony Music Germany.
Over the years he has worked with and been in charge of artists like Echt, HIM, Medina, Lena, Heino, Marquess, Queensberry, Adya Classic, Roland Kaiser, Melanie C, OMD, Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Semino Rossi and many many more. For Starwatch Entertainment Henrik was the mastermind behind one of Germany’s most successful kids music projects called Giraffenaffen.

As a consultant for TV productions he has accompanied and advised such programs as “Unser Star für Oslo – ESC”, “X Factor”, “Popstars” and “Sing wie ein Star”.

Gero Herrde

A&R / International Product Management / Labelhead Nexilis / Germany

Gero joined the renowned German music company SPV GmbH in 1992. There he founded the two labels Synthetic Symphony and Oblivion, on which national and international acts such as The Mission, Fields Of The Nephilim, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Delerium, And One and many other well-known and successful bands were represented. He also worked as a Product Manager apart from the more sombre sounds of his two labels, e.g. for Rock / Metal acts like Judas Priest, Blackmore’s Night or Moonspell and for various albums of the former SPV leading force No. 1, Fury In The Slaughterhouse. Furthermore, he was responsible for the entire national and international sub-licensing of ​​all in-house artists of SPV.
He joined forces with Schubert Music in August 2021 where took over the management of the newly founded label Nexilis whose focus is Alternative and Dark Rock, but the targeted bandwidth also extends to adjacent musical sectors, through various Electro styles — from Synth-Pop to industrial — to even Metal.

Katarzyna Zdziebłowska

Central Copyright