BUSINESS MANAGEMENT / ARTIST MANAGEMENT

Beate I. Mennicken started her theatre career in 1979 as the assistant of the artistic administrator in Gelsenkirchen. In the very next year, she became the artistic administrator of the Musiktheater im Revier. Already at that time, she intensively committed herself to keep up contacts with the audience, she organised publicity events and chaired discussions etc.

1983, she became the artistic administrator and personal consultant of the director in Osnabruck. In close co-operation with the managing directors, she was creatively involved in the theatre management. Moreover she was in charge of the entire handling of guest performances from the sales to the guest performance managing.

From 1987 until 1992 she was engaged at the Opera House Bonn as artistic administrator and personal consultant of the general director. Here, she also made arrangements for the program and the subscription system, she organised and attended to special events and galas with political VIP´s and internationally renowned artists. She was in charge of the contents arrangement, the artistic and organizational preparation, as well as media-specific problems in connection with the department of the German Chancellor, the foreign ministry, the Lord Mayor, broadcasting companies and the local and international press.

Before Beate I. Mennicken started her own PR-secretary in 1995, she gained foreign experiences and completed her studies as a cultural manager.

ARTIST MANAGEMENT

Miriam Grau Tanner worked as an assistant director at some of the most important opera houses in Europe including the Vienna State Opera, the Opera House Zurich, the Opéra de Monte Carlo, the Gran Teatru del Liceu or the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. Here, she worked with such renowned artists such as Placido Domingo and Zubin Mehta.

Parallel to her carreer in the world of music theatre, she made musicological research on the opera of the 18th century. Within this frame, she also participated in the reconstruction of Lorenzo da Ponte’s opera “L’apemusicale”, which had its successful world premiere in Vienna in the Mozart Year 2006.

Miriam Grau Tanner is the author of the book "The Voices of Mozart". As an expert on Mozart she is a very much sought-after lecturer at international musical conferences and universities.

Since 2000 Miriam Grau Tanner, who was born in Spain, regularly writes reviews and articles for the opera magazine “Opera Actual” and collaborates with the Vienna “Da Ponte Institute”.

Besides, she organized events and concerts with great names like John Elliot Gardiner or Montserrat Caballé a.m.o.

At the Bremen University, she got her degree in musical and cultural management.

Since September 1st, 2015, Miriam works at artist communication.

ARTIST MANAGEMENT

Oliver Ringelhahn made his first musical experiences as a soprano soloist with the Altenbug Boys‘ Choir at Altenburg Abbey. After studying Solo Singing at the University of Music and Performing Art in Vienna, he began his first engagement as a permanent member of the Landestheater Linz in 1995, followed by performances as an ensemble tenor at the Gärtnerplatztheatre Munich, the Volkoper Wien and the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden.

In 2009 he became a freelance artist, having guest performances on major stages worldwide, including a. o. the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Opera de Monte-Carlo, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Macao International Music Festival and he regularly performed at the Theater an der Wien. He continuously worked with the most renowned conductors and producers.

After finishing his Culture Management Studies in 2021, he was employed in the Marketing and Sales section of the Brucknerhaus in Linz. In 2022, he took up the position of chief dispatcher of the Graz Opera artistic management and in 2024 Oliver Ringelhahn became artistic director and deputy intendant at the Oldenburg State Theatre.

From September 1; 2025 Oliver works at artist communication.

CONSULTING / COACHING

Ivan Anguélov has appeared at international opera houses and festivals as well as with leading orchestras in major concert halls in Europe and overseas.

Chief conductor positions have taken the Bulgarian conductor, whose adopted home is Germany, from the Plovdiv National Opera to Lausanne and Bonn, and as GMD to the Bratislava National Opera, with which he was awarded the Furtwängler Prize for outstanding artistic achievements in 1995.
He has worked with renowned directors and soloists.

The conductor's discography is extensive. He has recorded numerous CDs of symphonic music and operas.

In 2007, the conductor Ivan Anguélov was awarded the honorary prize THE GOLDEN SPRING in Sofia for his contribution to Bulgarian culture.

Mo. Anguélov works as a coach for the agency's artists and is a musical consultant in the artist communication team.

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RESEARCH / TEXT

The Belgian Anna Loyens, who grew up trilingual (French, German, Flemish), began her professional career with a degree in translation and interpreting in English and Portuguese at the University of Antwerp.

Anna Loyens has lived in Germany since 1984, where she initially worked in the secretariat of the University of Passau's Department of Psychology. At the same time, she taught Dutch at the adult education center in Passau. This was followed by a position as an employee of the Passau tourist office. Anna Loyens then worked as a freelance translator for several international translation agencies.

Anna has been working as an assistant at artist communication since 1999.

WEB / SOCIAL MEDIA

Tobias Rahn takes care of the website for artist communication, cuts and edits videos, creates layout and creative concepts and is responsible for social media support.