About Us

Ekkehard Jung Artists & Projects (EJAP) is a vibrant boutique artist management company. Consistently placing our focus on sustainable long-term goals, we provide bespoke services for a distinguished roster of general management clients. Among our closest partners is the Europäische FilmPhilharmonie (EFPI), a production company for film concerts which licenses and distributes films, scores and musical material to orchestras.
Always enhancing its value for its clients, EJAP engages in close dialogue, information-sharing and teamwork with its partners, identifying opportunities for artists and promoters and constantly building its expertise and reputation in the evolving international market. 

 

Ekkehard Jung studied viola at Würzburg’s Hochschule für Musik and subsequently received a post-graduate degree in Arts Management from Hamburg’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater and an MBA (with distinction) from the University of Plymouth in the UK. During his studies he was active as a substitute viola player for the Kiel Opera and Lübeck Opera and went on to build his career in management roles for arts organisations, both commercial and not-for-profit. 
As Orchestra Manager of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, he initiated a film concert series which is still running today. At the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen his responsibilities as artistic administrator included artistic planning, securing and negotiating engagements around the world for the orchestra, recording projects and the management of extensive tours of Europe, North & South America, Asia and Japan. During this period he worked closely with such artists as Leif Ove Andsnes, Renaud Capuçon, Collegium Vocale Gent, Natalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Daniel Harding, Thomas Hengelbrock, Heinz Holliger, Paavo Järvi, Sabine Meyer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Trevor Pinnock, András Schiff, Heinrich Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt and Pieter Wispelwey.
In 2001 he began working as an artist and project manager, first at Van Walsum Management in Hannover, in the context of a partnership with Konzertdirektion Schmid, and later on at the agency’s head office in London. His clients at Van Walsum Management included Yuri Bashmet, Borodin Quartet, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Kristjan Järvi, Barnabás Kelemen, Moscow Soloists, Javier Perianes and Frank Strobel. In 2009 he became a Managing Partner at Impresariat Simmenauer in Berlin and in 2012 founded his own company in Berlin, Ekkehard Jung Artists & Projects (EJAP). 
In 2013 he launched a five-year collaboration with Hazard Chase in Cambridge, acting as a non-executive director on the British agency’s board. In 2020, having established a partnership between Ekkehard Jung Artists & Projects and the Berlin-based Europäische FilmPhilharmonie (EFPI), he became Managing Director of EFPI, working alongside its founder Beate Warkentien. 
In his spare time Ekkehard enjoys reading, theatre, film, walking, ballroom dancing and playing the viola. He is married and has two grown-up children.

 

Alessia Schumacher received her vocal training at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, the Conservatorio Superior del Liceu in Barcelona and the Barock Vokal Excellence Program in Mainz. Before that she studied art history and musicology at the University of Vienna and violin at the Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" in Como. While still a student she had the opportunity of working with the Berlin Philharmonic (Menotti/The Telephone, 2015). This started her career and led to operatic and concert engagements in Germany and Europe with conductors such as Iván Fischer, Wolfgang Katschner, Dame Jane Glover and Kirill Petrenko.
She gained practical experience in the field of artist relations and and concert support at the Dartington International Summer School (UK). During her studies in Vienna she also worked as an assistant to the management at the Galerie Hassfurther. In 2011 she developed the play "Deus ex machina" (script, acting, direction, project management), together with actress and author Denise Teipelwith, which appeared in Austria, London and Turkey.
Next to her career as a singer, she works in Marketing and Social Media for lautten compagney BERLIN since June 2022 and took on the role of Assistant Artist Manager at Ekkehard Jung artists & projects since October 2022.
  Marie-Louise Stille holds a diploma in Theatre Studies and Cultural Management from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and a master’s degree in Cultural and Media Management from the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Formerly awarded an Akademie Musiktheater heute scholarship (division cultural management), funded by the Deutsche Bank Foundation, she is currently benefiting from the Mentoring Program of the German Cultural Council.
During and following her studies, Marie-Louise worked as a theatre director, assistant director and manager in the fields of opera, dance, music and theatre. She was active in Latin America and Europe for such institutions and festivals as the Compañia Nacional de Danza (Madrid), Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Usedomer Musikfestival, Theater Nordhausen and Bach Biennale (Weimar). Among the projects she managed on a freelance basis was the premiere of Ménage à trois with Ensemble Modern at LAB Frankfurt. Also active as a cultural journalist, she writes for the Berlin-based art magazine Contemporary And and for the Buenos Aires-based blog Opera en Argentina.
Before joining Ekkehard Jung Artists & Projects, Marie-Louise worked at the artist agency Opus 3 Artists Europe in a dual role as Assistant Artist Manager in the vocal division and Assistant to the Managing Director.