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Milan

FedericaDegan

Creative Counsel — music, law, live events, entertainment

I build live events, guide artists, and study the rules of the game.

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Who I Am

I'm genuinely obsessed with music & entertainment. That's the starting point for everything else here.

New artists, new formats, the culture that builds around a scene before anyone's put a label on it. I never get tired of it, and that curiosity spills well beyond music into entertainment more broadly: the formats, the shows, the way audiences are actually kept in a room. That curiosity is what turned into actual work: this past year I consulted for emerging artists and music formats, shaping not just who gets discovered but how they land. Positioning, marketing, the story built around the music, not only the music itself.

Live is where I put that into practice. I founded and direct SIDERA Festival from the ground up. BASE Milano gave me the cultural management training to back it, and through BASE Under30 we won a public bid turning a disused post office into a space for counter-cultural programming.

An LL.M. and a year inside Warner Music Italia's Legal & Business Affairs team added the discipline: thinking structurally, and still moving fast when a project changes shape overnight.

Federica Degan
Selected Projects

Recent work.

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BASE Under30
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SIDERA Festival
Warner
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Italia
Warner Music
01 — Base Under30

Co-led a winning public bid for the urban regeneration of BASE Milano's former post office, now being developed into a space for counter-cultural programming.

02 — SIDERA Festival

Founded and artistically directed a multidisciplinary festival at Mare Culturale Urbano — concept, production and brand identity, built from the ground up.

03 — Warner Music Italia

Legal & Business Affairs internship with A&R exposure, working on contract negotiation and rights for major Italian releases.

What I do
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Line
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Milano Music Week
Creative Catalogue Exploitation, training course promoted by Linecheck.
Spotify
Certification
Spotify Advertising Academy, certified.
AI
In Progress
Training in applied AI and vibe coding for the events and music industry. I know how to create images, apps and websites.
Who I am, beyond the work

About me.

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Recommended Listening
My Recommended Listening

The station I keep coming back to — always the soundtrack to a late night of work.

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Must Watch
Yuri Ancarani — Atlantide

I love existentialist cinema — a way of capturing reality that feels close to mine.

Disco mirror ball
Latest Festival
Festival of the Sun — Rick Rubin

The most recent live experience that left a real mark on me.