Finland
Maiju Talvisto
ESNS: 2023
Flow Festival
Maiju Talvisto works as Head of Artist Relations at Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland. She has worked with the leading urban boutique festival since 2011 specializing in artist production and artist hospitality. She has been awarded as the production manager of the year by Women in Live Music in 2019 and as the producer of the year by Music x Media in 2022. Maiju is a board member of YOUROPE - The European Festival Association as well as one of the board members of LiveFIN, umbrella organization for live music operators in Finland. She also works as one of the expert advisors in the Finnish National Council of Music. Maiju holds two masters’ degrees: one in musicology and the other in arts management. Her debut non-fiction book about music industry and artist hospitality "Backstage - Artist producer's handbook" was published in October 2022 (in Finnish)