The team
Eric Nikodym
Managing Director
The cultural manager Eric Nikodym has been working for Ymusic GmbH as a senior project manager since 2018 and has taken over the management of the production office in 2021. For the application of the city of Nuremberg for the European Capital of Culture 2025, he was responsible for the lead project SONGLINES from 2018 – 2020 and worked for various festivals as production manager (e.g. Kunstfest Weimar, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe). In addition to his work for Ymusic GmbH, he is managing director and project manager of the international performance collective “KULA Compagnie” as well as managing director of the International Handel Academy Karlsruhe.
Wiebke Wesselmann
Production management
Wiebke began her professional career by training as a carpenter before studying art history and film studies in Berlin and Paris. Her focus was particularly on the artistic design of photographic and filmic exhibition formats. Since 2019 she has been Artistic Production Manager at YMusic GmbH with a focus on theater, performance, dance and visual arts. She also works as a freelance production manager and as manager of the achtung berlin film festival. In 2021, together with curator Alexander Pütz, she founded the art association YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE e.V., in whose exhibitions she presents young contemporary positions.
Marc David Ferrum
Production management & musical assistance
Marc works as a production manager and musical assistant for Ymusic GmbH. Thanks to his studies in contemporary composition, he is very familiar with both the artistic and organizational side of a production. Since 2019, he has also been contributing to the success of the Donaueschingen Music Days as part of the realization team. Since then, further festivals have followed, including the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and the PANTOPIA FESTIVAL Berlin, for which he is now production manager.
Oke Scheel
Production Assistance
Oke is part of the team as an executive assistant. As part of his final courses for his Bachelor of Law, he was able to spend a semester studying and researching in Tartu, Estonia, thanks to a scholarship. Because he really enjoyed the interdisciplinary experience, he decided to gain a foothold in culture as a career changer and has been supporting Ymusic with legal research, contract creation and production of primarily digital projects ever since.
