MA Top 30 Professional: Miran Vaupotic

Founder and Artistic Director
Green Note

A champion of new music and an eco-conscious talent agent, Miran Vaupotic is doing more than most to ensure that the art he loves thrives for a long time to come.

“For me, concern for the environment and devotion to new music are inseparable,” Vaupotic says. “Both are about nurturing possibility, about ensuring we leave the world richer than we found it.”

As the founder and artistic director of Green Note, a boutique management agency in his native Croatia, Vaupotic creates opportunities for artists he believes in, all while prioritizing sustainability. Tours, recording sessions, international collaborations: He’ll do what it takes to raise a client’s profile, as long as it doesn’t increase that person’s carbon footprint.

Vaupotic also spreads the environmental message directly, through a variety of special projects. He promotes a Green Piano Concerto by Severi Pyysalo, a horn program based on The Hidden Life of Trees, and the use of a “Tsunami Violin,” an instrument formed almost entirely of debris from the 2011 earthquake in Japan.

All of this stands in addition to Vaupotic’s career as a conductor. On the podium, he’s brought a generous quantity of new music—some 50 pieces—into the world, often with such elite ensembles as the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

These aren’t minor works, either. Among Vaupotic’s premiere credits are concertos, symphonies, and even several operas, including Waundell Saavedra’s Sweet Dreams, John Alan Rose’s Rumpelstiltskin, and Jelka by the late Blagoje Bersa.

“Protecting our natural world gives us the space, the inspiration, and even the responsibility to push music forward,” Vaupotic said. “In championing composers and artists who are alive today, and in committing to eco-friendly practices, I see both environmental care and musical creation as parts of a single project: cultivating what can grow.”