Veronique Jourdain
Veronique Jourdain studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris before working in music publishing. She was then hired by the Centre Pompidou, under construction at the time, to set up the collection of documents related to music -books, microfilms, videos- in the Music Division of the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information. When the Centre Pompidou opened its doors in 1977, Véronique decided to go on to Artist Management and joined the Bureau de Concerts Marcel de Valmalète and later Michel Glotz who gave her the responsibility to create and develop an international division of young artists, with such names as Augustin Dumay, Emmanuel Krivine, Katia & Marielle Labèque or Mikhail Rudy, as well as to promote the already established international career of conductors and singers such as Michel Plasson, Christoph Eschenbach and Leo Nucci. n 1988 she was hired by the British agency Harold Holt in London where she was responsible in the UK for Seiji Osawa and Michael Tilson Thomas among others. A year later her division and its director, Stephen Wright, merged with IMG (International Management Group) to form IMG Artists Europe. For twelve years she worked as an IMG Senior Manager being responsible for the worldwide management, working from the London offices for conductors Semyon Bychkov, John Eliot Gardiner, Mariss Jansons and Yuri Temirkanov, then working from the USA offices followed by the IMG Paris office running a new artist management division under the title IMG Artists Paris and into which she signed a totally new roster of 32 artists. She opened her own agency in Paris in 2004 with a list of conductors and instrumentalists of high renown, whom she represents worldwide, be it for European or for French management.