Jean-Philippe Thiellay, president of the National Music Center (CNM), leaves his post. The one who oversaw the destiny of this very young public establishment, born in 2020 from the merger of the National Center for Song, Variety and Jazz with four associations in the music sector, has learned that it will not be renewed for the second term he was seeking while his ended at the end of December 2024. The State Councilor, who was also deputy general director of the Paris National Opera until 2019, specifies Monde what “the President of the Republic and the Minister of Culture have decided to give new impetus and therefore a new presidency to the CNM”. At the precise moment of this future change of governance, and while the name of his replacement has not been made public, the Court of Auditors published, Friday January 17, its first report on the CNM.
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-First observation, the creation of this new State operator in favor of music – the birth of which had been envisaged since 2007 – took place “at a time when the recorded music crisis was fading with the rise of streaming revenues.” But above all, from its installation, “the CNM was hit by the health crisis” due to the Covid-19 epidemic which plunged the sector into the unknown with the closure of performance halls and the cancellation of festivals, notes the report.
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