29/03/2026
Dear friends, participants and followers of HOLLYWOOD MUSIC WORKSHOP!
Since many of you have been aware for some time now about our upcoming planned move from our old location Baden/Austria to our new event location The Hague/Netherlands it’s very important to acknowledge our appreciation and thanks to all the folks and entities who have made us so successful and renowned over the last eighteen years to folks like you from all over the world.
NO ONE deserves more appreciation and gratitude than our beloved Austrian director, organizer and original founder LILO BELLOTTO!
I myself got inspired to work together with her on organizing HMW after describing to her the highly professional procedure involved in creating a Hollywood movie score.
Together with her and one of our first lecturers-Don Williams (brother of John William), our first event took place in the summer of 2009 in the picturesque town of Klosterneuburg at the outskirts of Vienna/Austria.
From the onset on it became clear, that without her complete dedication, organizational efforts and tireless hard work in planning and executing the workshop, it just wouldn’t happen.
Whether it was ensuring the availability of toilet paper and paper towels in the bathrooms all the way to organizing the order of participants during the recording sessions and keeping an eye on the financial aspects, including the final bureaucracy necessary to keep the books up to date and all of that carried out with her lovely and charming smile!
Lilo’s contributions are too numerous to describe at this moment, suffice to say that she carried the brunt of duties while most of my involvement had to do with, aside from my artistic output, if and when someone stepped out of line and I was forced to intervene, hence our self described title War and Peace ( even though I considered myself peaceful had to settle for the title War)
It is therefore only fair to understand her reasoning, after so many years of being so heavily involved in such a sometime tedious organizational process, that the time has come to listen to your body and mind and agree to leave when you feel it’s the right thing to do.
Dearest LILO, my old friend from our youth days,
I could have never imagined or dreamed of how much we have achieved after so many years of hard and dedicated work involving so many different aspects of this successful endeavor.
Whether you organized the course schedules, managed the numerous public performances and concerts (including the live event during COVID in the Badener Kurpark) your professionalism based on your own life experiences as a former musical star with stage performances all over Europe, all of it is proof of your numerous achievements!
For HMW to be able to move on to another internationally renowned location, it’s definitely your merit as well.
We will miss your organizational skills, dedication and leadership but luckily you will still be part of our existence on an advisory level and with hope to be able to tap into your expertise when need arises!
With all of our love, thanks and never ending appreciation,
Dimitrie Leivici and HMW team
