International Solutions launches in Australia and New Zealand

PRESS RELEASE:

INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONSis proud to announce the launch of their international music marketing and promotions services in Australia and New Zealand with the appointment ofVictoria Ciesiolka as Territory Manager.

Founder and CIO Paolo d’Alessandrocommented “I am thrilled to be able to extend our international music services business into Australia and New Zealand. The time is right to focus our attention on some of the absolutely incredible music coming from Australian and New Zealand artists and helping them establish a foothold outside of Australia. With some predictions of minimal growth for the region domestically, artists, managers and labels now more thanever will need an international focus and with the opening of our Melbourne based Australian office we can now offer a global promotion & marketing service to all Australian and New Zealand clients enabling them to have boots on the ground in the US and Europe. I am particularly delighted to have Victoria on board, with her vast experience, passion for music and knowledge of the market I know we have taken a strong first step towards the development of our Australian base.

Victoria Ciesiolka has built a career in the entertainment industry spanning nearly two decades with extensive label experience both in Australia andinternationally whilst working with artists including Green Day, My Chemical Romance,The Wombats, Foals, Muse, Rob Thomas, Biffy Clyro and many more. Victorialaunched Alpha Entertainment in 2011, an independent firm specialising in PR, marketing, artist development and strategic consultancy and whose roster includes high profile clients such as Live Nation and Beyond The Valley Festival and continues to maintain a proven track record with the successful execution of national PR and Marketing strategies for independent artist including The Stiffy’s, Ivan Ooze, Vaudeville Smash, Bec Laughton, Emmy Bryce and many more.

With a team of senior staff on the ground in London (UK), Amsterdam (NL), New York (US) and now Melbourne, INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS offers marketing & promotion services to Australian and New Zealand artists and labels foreach of these major international markets. INTERNATIONAL SOLUTIONS implements and manages press, radio, online and TV/video needs for album releases, single campaigns & international tours through their centrally coordinated in-house international team and by managing a large network of local promotion teams on the ground in each territory.

“I’m hugely excited to accept the role of Territory Manager for International Solutions alongside my existing responsibilities as Director of Alpha Entertainment. With such a wealth of talented artists here in Australia andNew Zealand, the a bility to now offer comprehensive international artist strategies and services to Australian and New Zealand artists, managers and labels through International Solutions is a logical and necessary step for the local music market.The opportunity to work extensively with someone as experienced as Paolo and his team, not only across international strategies for our domestic artists but also providing promotions and marketing strategies for a wealth of international talent in this market is an opportunity impossible to resist”. – Victoria Ciesiolka