Ian Hennessy has worked in the music business for twenty five years. Ian has worked in a variety of areas of the music business including music retail, live music and concert promotion, management, sync and record and music publishing.
Working with Crashed Music & Records recording artists and songwriters he has gained a vast amount of experience and has taken a particular interest in publishing and all copyright related matters. Ian, as executive director, has guided and managed Crashed Music going into their fifth decade in business. Crashed Music publish a large Irish music catalogue including works by established and emerging songwriters as well as administering the publishing for a number of other catalogues. Ian is also a director of the Music Publishers Association of Ireland (MPAI) and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Ireland (MCPSI).
Rory McPartland is a seasoned industry professional with over 30 years of experience across music publishing, licensing, and music supervision. His career began with the UK-based band Mike TV, signed to Almo Sounds and Rondor Music Publishing.
After the band’s dissolution, Rory moved to New York, where he worked in EMI Music Publishing’s licensing department. He played a key role in licensing songs from the EMI catalog to major film studios such as DreamWorks, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal and MGM. In 2012, Rory transitioned to Spirit Music Group in New York as the sole worldwide license administrator, managing license drafting for a prestigious catalog that included artists such as Pete Townshend, Marc Bolan, Charles Mingus and Graham Nash. However, it is Rory’s founding of Tremolo Music Publishing in 2014 that has become his central focus.
Returning to Ireland, he continued his work with Spirit while developing Tremolo, which has since become a prominent music publisher. Tremolo represents a diverse roster of songwriters, focusing on synchronization opportunities, songwriting collaborations and composing for film and television. Under Rory’s leadership, Tremolo has achieved significant success in the sync licensing space, securing high-profile placements such as Katie Kim’s “Day Is Coming” in the worldwide trailer for Netflix’s Wild Wild Country, and Winter Aid’s “The Wisp Sings” in Google’s Look To Speak commercial campaign in the US. Additionally, Tremolo hosts an annual songwriting retreat in County Leitrim, an initiative that has become a key platform for nurturing emerging songwriting talent.
Tremolo’s continued growth is a testament to Rory’s deep industry knowledge and commitment to creating opportunities for songwriters. Beyond Tremolo, Rory is also a Director at Planet of Sound, a music supervision company. Recent projects include An Irish Goodbye, The Apprentice, The Gone, Mix Tape, Four Mothers, and upcoming films Soulm8te and Saipan.
Juliet Martin has worked as a music publisher for over 15 years and established Silverstream Music in 2008, which provides a variety of services including publishing, composer representation and music supervision for film, TV and advertising.
Over her career, she has worked closely with numerous high-profile artists including Sinead O’Connor, De Dannan, Donal Lunny and Sharon Shannon. Silverstream works with some of Ireland’s leading composers for film, TV and advertising including Stephen Rennicks (‘Room’, ‘Normal People’), John Gerard Walsh (Global campaigns for Jameson, Guinness, Tourism Ireland) Michael Fleming (‘The Queen of Ireland’, ‘Katie’) and artists Donal Lunny, Zali and Rocstrong.
Recent sync success includes campaigns for McDonalds, Global Seat Car Campaign, Rimmel London, Hahn Beer in Australia, Tesco, and many more. Juliet brings her extensive knowledge and background in the music industry to her role as a music supervisor. She currently provides music supervision services for some of Ireland’s and the UK’s biggest production companies. Clients include Element Pictures (Poor Things), Deadpan Pictures, Metropolitan Films and Two Brothers Pictures. Film/TV work includes ‘Conversations with Friends’ (Element Pictures) for Hulu and the BBC, ‘The Tourist Season 2’ (Two Brothers Pictures) for the BBC, ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ for Amazon Studios and the Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta nominated ‘Normal People’ for Hulu and the BBC .
She also regularly guest lectures and contributes to industry panels.
Ed Condon is currently Director of Legal & Business Affairs for Warner Chappell Music Publishing. Based in London, Ed’s main focus is signing composers and songwriters to Warner Chappell and providing general legal and business affairs advice to the publishing business.
Ed also sits on various external committees and industry advisory groups. Ed has significant collecting society experience. Prior to working at Warner Chappell, Ed spent six years in the legal team at PRS for Music.
Sharon is Sony Music Publishing’s Senior Vice President, International Operations & Society Relations and is an active member of its global senior executive strategy team based in its International office in London.
Sharon‘s 30+ year music industry career spans PRS, SBK Songs, A&M Records, and CBS Music Publishing, now Sony Music Publishing. She has vast experience of the operational side of music copyright administration from both the side of a smaller publishing company (CBS Music Publishing began with just a handful of copyrights), to now being a key executive in the largest music publisher in the world. Today Sharon leads, provides procedural and operational direction and internationally manages Sony Music Publishing’s administrative operations and organisation, instigating and leading several business change programmes. She is an experienced participant in Society/Publisher technical committees, with a strong eye for detail, and a direct approach to challenging outdated practices.
With her extensive international experience, she champions the rights of international songwriters, and is an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.
