Music Exchange
The world's largest offer of live music
About
We know music is central to your radio programming so you have easy access to first-class music and events through our Music Exchange.
With around 3,000 concerts by both leading and emerging artists shared every year, this is the world’s largest offer of live music. Covering all genres from classical and opera to folk, jazz, world, rock, pop and dance, we provide access to prestigious concerts and performances from venues across the globe to enrich the diversity and quality of your music offer.
Members request around 20,000 programmes from the Music Exchange every year, making it a cost-effective way of sharing the world’s best music with your audiences. Performances range from the BBC Proms and the New York Metropolitan Opera to Coldplay and Radiohead. We also organize several major music events and festivals every year, in conjunction with our Members, including Eurosonic and the Euroradio Folk Festival.
Partners
The Euroradio Music Exchange is a proud partner of Keychange, an international gender equality campaign which invests in emerging talent whilst encouraging music organisations to sign up to a gender balance pledge.
Special Programmes and Offers
Let the Peoples Sing
The Copenhagen Girls Choir (Denmark, entered by Danish Radio) has won the prestigious Silver Rose Bowl, the highest honour of the competition at Let the Peoples Sing (LTPS) 2024. Triumphing with works by Matti Borg, Maurice Duruflé and Karin Rehnqvist, the Copenhagen Girls Choir was also awarded the Children and Youth category.
Europe's Biggest Dance Show
A unique marathon of DJ-sets going from country to country, Europe's Biggest Dance Show is a broadcast marathon presented by Euroradio and hosted by BBC Radio 1.
Promoting the Top Young Performers
A curated series of the Euroradio Season devoted to Top Young Performers ranks among our initiatives to support emerging musical talents around the world.
Music Exchange Events
In conversation with Rufus Wainwright
This online event is part of the Music and Radio 60-minute sessions organized by the EBU Music Unit.
Choir Summit
The first EBU Choir Summit will take place during the Eric Ericson Award, kindly hosted by Swedish Radio in Stockholm.
Music Strategy Meeting and Eurosonic Conference
The meeting of the Music Strategy community and the Eurosonic Conference will take place during the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik, at the kind invitation of RÚV.
Music and Radio 60-Minute Sessions
Watch our series of online sessions aimed at the EBU Music community. We discuss radio and music challenges related to live-recorded music and radio production.
Watch again
In conversation with Rufus Wainwright
Celebrated for his boundless creativity through diverse genres, Rufus Wainwright unveils his Dream Requiem on...
Unveiling the EBU Opera Programming Survey results
Contemporary opera has consistently held an important place in opera programming for radio, guided by...
Music Programming on Radio Based on Moods
For a very long time (well, forever, really…) radio genres/profiles have dictated the music content of...
Women in Music - Celebrating Diversity
In this session, our speakers reflect on diversity in music, and look at how radio can help the shift...
Sustainability and EBU media orchestras
At the initiative of the management and musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, EBU...
Gen Z and Classical Music
A British study published in 2022 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, showed that 74% of the population...
Contacts
Laurent Marceau
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Popular Music, EBU
Mireia Pacareu Fauquier
Editor, Live Music and Projects, Classical Music, EBUpacareu@ebu.ch
Albina Belabiod
Project Manager, Classical Music, EBUbelabiod@ebu.ch