Lars Wiggman founded Mars Music AB in September 2009 as a joint venture with NotPoolen (including Notfabriken Music Publishing).
Fredrik Zmuda is appointed Head Of Creative at Mars Music beginning January 1st. 2010. He will be in charge of all creative activities such as synch exploitation, rooster developing and strategic planning for songwriters, composers and catalogues. In addition to that, Mia Hedlund starts as Copyright and Royalty manager supervising administration in collaboration with Susanne Höglund who already manages financial activities etc.
Fredrik, prior A&R manager at Air Chrysalis Scandinavia, has recently been producing film and consulting for the Swedish Music Information Centre.
Fredrik Zmuda "I'm very happy about starting up a brand new publishing operation with strong and healthy creative focus together with Lars"
Mia Hedlund recently worked with Lars at Bonnier Music Publishing after several years at Warner Chappell Music Scandinavia.
Lars Wiggman: "I am most happy to have Mia recruited again. She is qualified and has the right qualities for keeping our administration tight and progressive at the same time.
"Fredrik and I did a lot of fun stuff together during the golden years at Air Chrysalis and it now feels just right to have him onboard from the very beginning"
Mars Music has during a short period of time closed agreements with ASS (Andreas Söderström Solo), Tomas Bäcklund, Klas Gullbrand, Stage Three Music (UK & US), A. Schroeder International, Mattie Music (Bill Withers), French Fried Music, Corday Productions, Doug Colton Entertainment, Bob-A-Lew Music, Thomas Lindahl och Merit Hemmingson etc.
M.M./2010.01.11