Chris McNulty

Jan 2011 - Feb 2012

Marketing Officer

As part of a small creative team, I oversaw all marketing activity for the Asian Music Circuit's events programme.

Key areas of work:

▪ Planning and executing marketing campaigns for all concerts, tours, exhibitions and education events

▪ Designing brochures, flyers, posters, and concert programmes

▪ Overseeing printing and distribution of promotional materials and concert programmes

▪ Creating all external texts, from press releases and programme notes to grant applications and website copy

▪ Managing marketing budget

▪ Buying advertising space (print, radio, TV, online) and designing adverts

▪ Maintaining and building media contacts 

▪ Recruiting and supervising interns and volunteers

Selected projects:

▪ 'Asia Rocks!' featuring Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Royal Albert Hall, London, 18th September 2011

▪ An Evening of Beijing Opera, Southbank Centre, London, 21st July 2011

▪ Anuradha Paudwal, Cadogan Hall, London, 10th July 2011

▪ 'Enter Stage Right: Costumes from the Beijing Opera', Museum of Asian Music, London, June - July 2011

▪ Mumbai Jazz, Porgy and Bess Jazz Bar, Vienna, 30th April 2011

Jan 2010 - May 2010

Marketing and Research Assistant

Working on projects for major legal and financial firms, I travelled to cities around Europe to gather information on students' reactions to high-profile graduate marketing campaigns.

Key areas of work: 

▪ Planning, observing and evaluating focus groups and conducting student interviews

▪ Assisting during film projects
▪ Managing large-scale market research surveys

▪ Analysing data and results and putting together detailed client reports

Selected projects:

▪ RBS graduate recruitment review, Feb - Mar 2010

▪ HSBC graduate recruitment review, May 2010

Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

European Voluntary Service

Funded by the European Commission's Youth in Action programme, I spent a year in Germany at the EMCY secretariat, a central contact point for music competitions across Europe.

Key areas of work:

▪ Project managing a complete redesign and relaunch of the EMCY website

▪ Programming and staging a series of concerts as part of the ‘WDR MusikFest’ in Münster and ‘Jugend musiziert’ in Essen

▪ Promoting prize winners online and helping them find performance opportunities

▪ Supporting prize winners through an ongoing programme of masterclasses and courses

▪ Designing, composing and distributing email newsletters and postal mailings

▪ Contacting member competitions across Europe

▪ Managing musicians for creative projects

▪ Taking care of complex international hotel and travel arrangements for large mixed groups

▪ Maintaining and updating contact lists

Selected projects:

▪ EMCY conference for national music competitions, Barcelona, June 2009

▪ Jugend musiziert prize-winners' concert, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, 3rd June 2009 (introduced by Dr. Ursula von der Leyen)

Sep 2007 - May 2008

Brand Navigator

Rough Guides Brand Navigators promote Rough Guides’ travel guides through exciting marketing and PR activities on campus. I joined the scheme during my final year at King's College London.

Key areas of work:

▪ Promoting campaigns and generating product interest at universities across the UK

▪ Negotiating with journalists and writing articles for student press 

▪ Organising book launch events and distributing promotional materials on campus 

Jun 2006 – Feb 2007

Marketing Assistant 

Barefruit generates highly targeted traffic for ISPs by replacing error pages with relevant advertising.  As a junior member of the team, I assisted in the daily running of the start-up.

Key areas of work:

▪ Assisting in the preparation of detailed documents to enable error resolution

▪ Generating complex taxonomies to maximise traffic

▪ Proofreading texts and data sets and checking for misspells and broken links

Feb - Apr 2012 

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Berlin (funded by European Commission grant)

May - Jun 2009

Jugend musiziert, Essen

Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

London Symphony Orchestra, London

Aug 2007 

Attitude magazine, London

May - Jul 2007 

Bridgeman Art Library, London

Sep 2007

London Fashion Weekend, London

Jun 2006

Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, UK

Sep 2005 - Jul 2008

BMus (Hons) in Music: First Class 

▪ Study abroad at Internationales Kulturinstitut, Vienna

▪ Electives at Royal Academy of Music and School of Oriental and African Studies

Scholarships

▪ Purcell Prize 2008 awarded for highest marks in the Department of Music in the final year of the course

▪ Sambrooke Exhibition 2007 awarded for highest marks in the Department of Music in the second year of the course

Dissertation 

▪ Supervisor: Professor John Deathridge 

▪ Abstract: Scholarly discourse on the so-called 'Zeitopern' of the Weimar Republic has tended to focus on the novelty of these works: their obsession with technology, the prevailing political climate or jazz idioms, for example. Indeed, very few academics have examined the operas’ close links to music and music theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to contemporaneous cultural currents and non-‘Zeit-’ music drama elsewhere in the Republic and abroad. To what extent, then, were these pieces ‘of their time’? Investigating these issues, as well as the disparity between the works’ contemporary reception and the distortive literature on the other, the Zeitoper’s apparently most fundamental defining quality – ephemerality – will be brought into question in an approach novel for its broader outlook and thoroughness.

Extra-curricular

▪ Published articles in student newspapers including 'Felix' (Imperial College London), 'Roar' (King's College London) and 'London Student' (University of London)

▪ Active in King's College London Symphony Orchestra, King's Singers and King's Concert Band 

Sep 1998 - Jul 2005

▪ Five A2-levels: Fine Art, French, General Studies, Latin, Music

▪ All grade A (highest grade)