about ecsa

ECSA is an international non-profit organisation (Aisbl), registered under Belgian law with an office in the European House for Culture, Flagey, Brussels. As a professional organization, ECSA speaks in the name for all European composers and songwriters and embraces composer and songwriter associations of any genre of music creation.

ECSA, the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, is therefore the voice of composers and songwriters at European level. ECSA is formed by the three main genre specific federations of composers in Europe: the Alliance of Popular Music Composers of Europe (APCOE), the European Composers Forum (ECF) and the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe (FFACE). It is composed by 36 organizations of composers and songwriters in 29 European countries and represents therefore over 12.000 European music creators.

Increasingly worried that in a ‘Single Market’ music creators are equally effected by political, regulatory and cultural policies which begin at an EU rather than at a national level, the three existing Pan-European music writer federations assembled in an alliance which now represents composers and songwriters of all musical genres (concert, audio-visual and popular) and communicate with one joint voice to politicians, civil servants, and commercial and cultural bodies whose workings impact on the working lives of all its’ members.

Get to know the ECSA Structure

ECSA was launched on 7th of March 2007 at the Theatro Circo Price in Madrid. 35 organizations of 23 countries came together from all over Europe to form a single voice for European composers and songwriters. Today, the alliance represents 36 organizations in 29 European countries and became an official partner of the European House for Culture in September 2009