Music Exchange
The world's largest offer of live music
About
We know music is central to your radio programming so you have easy access to first-class music and events through our Music Exchange.
With around 2,700 concerts by both leading and emerging artists shared every year, this is the world’s largest offer of live music. Covering all genres from classical and opera to folk, jazz, world, rock, pop and dance, we provide access to prestigious concerts and performances from venues across the globe to enrich the diversity and quality of your music offer.
Members request around 20,000 programmes from the Music Exchange every year, making it a cost-effective way of sharing the world’s best music with your audiences. Performances range from the BBC Proms and the New York Metropolitan Opera to Coldplay and Radiohead. We also organize several major music events and festivals every year, in conjunction with our Members, including Eurosonic and the Euroradio Folk Festival.
Partners
The Euroradio Music Exchange is a proud partner of Keychange, an international gender equality campaign which invests in emerging talent whilst encouraging music organizations to sign up to a gender balance pledge.
Reports
Members can log in to see the reports :
2025 Music Exchange User Guide
2025 EBU Music Rights Survey Report Popular Music
2024 Music Exchange Statistics
Music Radio Social Media (17 December 2024)
Special Programmes and Offers
EBU Music Commissioning Scheme
A new initiative uniting media orchestras, choirs, festivals and classical radio channels across Europe and beyond. The project will see the creation and broadcast of ten newly commissioned works, showcasing a diverse group of composers from around the world and celebrating public service media’s commitment to supporting contemporary music.
Euroradio Folk Festival
Promoting the cultural diversity of Europe through music exchanges. Kanteles, fiddles, accordions, balalaikas, throat singing, yodelling: these and many more can be heard at the annual Euroradio Folk Festival (EFF), where bands and artists redefine the frontiers of folk music through their ethno, jazz, traditional and crossover projects. More than a mere festival, this event is a platform presenting the incredible diversity of musical genres and sounds of all lifestyles in European folk music.
Palma Ars Acustica
The Prix Palma Ars Acustica is an international competition organized by Euroradio Ars Acustica to promote and honour outstanding productions of authors in the world of Ars Acustica: radio art, sound art, media art, text sound compositions, electroacoustic music, electronics, live electronica, etc.
Music Exchange Events
Classical Music Group Meeting, Prague
Elected members meet to coordinate activities in the EBU radio classical music domain
Eurosonic Strategy and Eurosonic Live Meetings
Meetings of the Eurosonic Strategy and Eurosonic Live communities
Music and Radio 60-Minute Sessions
Watch our series of online sessions aimed at the EBU Music community. We discuss radio and music challenges related to live-recorded music and radio production.
Watch again
In conversation with Rufus Wainwright
Celebrated for his boundless creativity through diverse genres, Rufus Wainwright unveils his Dream Requiem on...
Unveiling the EBU Opera Programming Survey results
Contemporary opera has consistently held an important place in opera programming for radio, guided by...
Music Programming on Radio Based on Moods
For a very long time (well, forever, really…) radio genres/profiles have dictated the music content of...
Women in Music - Celebrating Diversity
In this session, our speakers reflect on diversity in music, and look at how radio can help the shift...
Sustainability and EBU media orchestras
At the initiative of the management and musicians of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, EBU...
Gen Z and Classical Music
A British study published in 2022 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, showed that 74% of the population...
Contacts
Pascale Labrie
Head of Music, EBUWith a background in classical music and arts management, Pascale began her professional journey in 1998, organizing concert tours across Canada with Jeunesses Musicales. She went on to serve as Director of Communications—and later, Director—of the Montreal International Music Competition.
In 2006, she joined the French-language Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (SRC) in Montreal as an Executive Producer. From 2012 to 2014, she took on the role of Chef d’antenne for the classical channel Musiq3 at RTBF in Brussels. After a brief return to Montreal as Chief of Content for classical music at SRC, she moved to the European Broadcasting Union in 2015, where she has served as Head of Music ever since. Outside of work, Pascale enjoys experimenting with new keto recipes and hiking in the Alps.
labrie@ebu.ch
Laurent Marceau
Editor, Live Music & Projects, Popular Music, EBU
Mireia Pacareu Fauquier
Editor, Live Music and Projects, Classical Music, EBUpacareu@ebu.ch
