Apple’s Elena Segal to receive Ivors Academy Honor for UK music industry contributions

Elena Segal, Apple’s International Senior Director of Music Publishing, is ready to obtain an Ivors Academy Honour in recognition of her contributions to the UK music business.

This accolade is a part of the Ivors Academy Honours, which intention to rejoice people who’ve considerably supported songwriters and composers and pushed constructive change throughout the music sector.

Segal’s profession started in 2001 at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, the place she centered on leisure litigation, specializing in copyright and trademark points for the music business. She transitioned to iTunes in 2006, taking part in a pivotal position within the platform’s international growth. Segal’s experience was essential through the launch of Apple Music, the place she managed the licensing of music publishing rights outdoors the US for the service’s debut in over 100 international locations.

In her present position as Apple’s International Senior Director of Music Publishing, Segal oversees all sides of Apple’s relationships with songwriters, music publishers, and different licensors of rights in compositions. Her work additionally contains contributions to the Apple Music Competition, an occasion that featured performances from a few of the world’s high artists over its 10-year run in London.

“Elena is among the most completed and revered music executives within the UK. All through her profession Elena has persistently championed the worth of songwriters and music publishing.”

Tom Grey, The Ivors Academy

The Ivors Academy Honours are a continuation of the Gold Badge Awards, which had been first established in 1974 to honor related achievements. Notable previous recipients of those awards embrace Joan Armatrading CBE, Janice Lengthy, Peter Gabriel, Beverly Knight MBE, Bob Geldof KBE, Trevor Nelson MBE, Paulette Lengthy OBE, and Sir Michael Eavis. Segal joins Academy Honour inaugural recipients Kevin Brennan MP, Carla Marie Williams, Crispin Hunt, and the late Rupert Hine.

The respect can be offered to Segal at a non-public occasion in London this Might.

“Elena is among the most completed and revered music executives within the UK. All through her profession Elena has persistently championed the worth of songwriters and music publishing,” stated Tom Grey, Chair of The Ivors Academy.

“Notably, she has been on the forefront of worldwide music licensing as expertise remodeled the business. For her contributions to the music business, Elena really deserves this Honour.”

The ceremony will even acknowledge different influential figures within the music business, together with Bruce Springsteen, who can be named a Fellow of The Ivors Academy in recognition of “his affect and affect on the craft of songwriting”.

Springsteen, aka “The Boss”, joins an elite group of songwriting legends who’ve acquired the Fellowship, together with Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush CBE, Joan Armatrading CBE, and Sting, the 2023 recipient.

The Ivors Academy is a UK commerce group devoted to representing the pursuits of British songwriters and composers. It additionally hosts the annual Ivor Novello Awards.

Initially established within the Nineteen Forties because the Composers Guild of Nice Britain and the Songwriters Guild of Nice Britain, the group has undergone a number of transformations. These two our bodies finally merged into the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), which was rebranded because the Ivors Academy in 2019. The Ivor Novello Awards, recognized informally as The Ivors, have been celebrated since 1956.

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