Music Expo announces Yamaha & Steinberg Gold Sponsorships

Published 10/4/18

Major music brands team up with music-makers conference

Music Expo, the multi-city conference series created to inspire music makers has welcomed Yamaha and Steinberg as official Gold Sponsors for the 2018 season. Yamaha and Steinberg will showcase their latest products and host masterclasses with some of their top product specialists and artists at each upcoming Music Expo event. Hosted in association with Sound On Sound, Music Expo is now in four major cities; Miami, Boston, San Francisco and will launch for the first time in Nashville.

“We’ve seen how Music Expo has grown its community across the US and we are really excited to expand our partnership in 2018,” says Nate Tschetter, Product Marketing Manager, Yamaha Corporation of America. "Music Expo is becoming the event to engage with music makers and demonstrate how our products can assist their creativity.”

Last month, Yamaha and Steinberg attended Music Expo Miami. With over 300 attendees, the expo included workshops, inspiring panels, product demos, networking opportunities and award-winning presenters such as Gary Noble, Andy Clay, Derek Garcia and Greg “Stryke” Chin.

“We wil l contribute to the quality programming Music Expo has to offer,” says Nithin Cherian Product Marketing Manager for Steinberg. “Some of our top product specialists will run hands-on masterclasses presenting insights in respects to everything from pro music production and working with MIDI, to recording instruments or vocals and more.”

Yamaha joined as an exhibitor in 2015 and has been exhibiting at every Music Expo since then featuring the reface mobile mini keyboards and more recently MONTAGE, their flagship synthesizer.

“Yamaha and Steinberg are two of the world’s largest manufacturers of music and audio software and hardware that make some of the most powerful creative tools used by top artists around the world.” stated Loïc Maestracci, Founder and Executive Producer of Music Expo. “This is the evolution of a long-term partnership started in 2015 and I am really excited to see what we will bring together to the Music Expo community this year.”