Marie-Lena Olma

Head of Membership Services (Division Manager) at Deutsche Chorjugend e.V.
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Location
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Languages
  • German Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • English Professional working proficiency

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Credentials

  • MBA Launch #MoreWomenLeading
    Forte Foundation
    Sep, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector
    University of Virginia
    May, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Social Impact Strategies
    University of Pennsylvania
    Jul, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management
    University of Virginia Darden School of Business
    Jan, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Choir Conductor
    Badischer Chorverband
    Jan, 2011
    - Nov, 2024
  • Choir Mentor
    Schwäbischer Chorverband E.V.
    Jan, 2008
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • Germany
    • Musicians
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Membership Services (Division Manager)
      • Sep 2021 - Present

      - Promoted in <1 year; leading a 6-person team responsible to oversee and grow services for choral associations across Germany- Responsible for membership expansion, recruiting, and on-boarding events for new-joiners- Coordination of Deutsche Chorjugend's participation at "chor.com" 2021 - Europe's largest choir conference with 50+ international choir organizations.

    • Project Lead (Together! - Chor.Leben)
      • Jan 2021 - Present

      - Leading the pilot-project "TOGETHER! – Chor.Leben" to promote the creation of participative diversity-choirs across Germany; facilitating the legal & financial establishment of 12 choirs, working directly with 20+ part-time workers, and raising funds- Assumed the additional interim management of the project “SingBus”, preventing the cancellation of six events across Germany and hiring a new employee for long term support

    • Project Manager
      • Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

      - Coordinated the virtual choir project #zusammenSINGENzurWEIHNACHT (“singing together for Christmas”) during the corona pandemic, reaching 3.000+ participants, 23 partners, and broadcast on public German TV during Christmas Eve 2020

    • Festival Production Lead
      • 2019 - 2020

      - Event Planning Manager of the 4th International Guitar Festival Jüchen (2019-2020)- Event Planning Manager of the Chopin Festival Düsseldorf 2019 (Piano Festival), working for the Robert-Schumann School of Music Düsseldorf and the Polish Institute Düsseldorf- Event Planning Manager of the International Guitar Festival Viva la Guitarra 2019, working for the Robert-Schumann School of Music Düsseldorf

    • Artist Manager
      • 2018 - 2020

      concert acquisition, contracts, consulting, social media, etc. for musicians

    • Founder, Event Planning & Tourmanager
      • 2014 - 2018

      2017: Organization of a concert tour to Cuba for the Youth Guitar Orchestra Baden-Württemberg2017: Organization of a intercultural exchange project between the Orquesta de Guitarras de Málaga and the Gitarrenensemble of the Music University of Frankfurt2016: Organization of a intercultural exchange project between the Orquesta de Guitarras de Málaga and the Jugend Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württemberg2015: Co-organization of a concert tour to Chile for the Youth Guitar Orchestra Baden-Württemberg2014: Founder and Manager of the Orquesta de Guitarras de Málaga

  • Freelance
    • worldwide
    • Freelancing Musician
      • Aug 2011 - Dec 2019

      - playing concerts as a freelancing soloist (guitar, singing), in guitar duo (GuitArsManos) and as a member of guitar orchestras and choirs e.g. in Hong Kong, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Kanada, Iran, Chile, Cuba, and many european countries, such as Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany - record an album („A Dúo Guitarreando“) with the guitar duo GuitArsManos in Havanna, Cuba (Label: Colibrí), becoming finalist of the recording competition "Cubadisco" - playing concerts as a freelancing soloist (guitar, singing), in guitar duo (GuitArsManos) and as a member of guitar orchestras and choirs e.g. in Hong Kong, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Kanada, Iran, Chile, Cuba, and many european countries, such as Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany - record an album („A Dúo Guitarreando“) with the guitar duo GuitArsManos in Havanna, Cuba (Label: Colibrí), becoming finalist of the recording competition "Cubadisco"

    • Spain
    • Software Development
    • Intern - Administration, Marketing, PR
      • 2018 - 2018

    • Germany
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Student Assistant
      • 2017 - 2018

      Student Assistant at the International Guitar Festival Viva la Guitarra Student Assistant at the International Guitar Festival Viva la Guitarra

    • Intern - International Office
      • 2017 - 2017

      Erasmus graduate scholarship for an internship at the international office of the Conservatory of Music in Málaga Erasmus graduate scholarship for an internship at the international office of the Conservatory of Music in Málaga

    • Intern - Artist Management
      • 2017 - 2017

Education

  • Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg
    Master of Arts - MA, Kulturwissenschaften und -management
  • Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf
    Bachelor of Music, Guitar

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