Stéphane Amiel is the creator and director of the Les Femmes s'en Mêlent festival, which was launched in Paris on March 08, 1997. For 26 years, the event has provided an alternative to the under-representation of women artists on most music scenes, offering ambitious programming and becoming one of the first international festivals to promote women's musical creation.
With over 500 female musicians and composers programmed since 1997, including the first stages of Christine & The Queens, Emilie Simon, Jeanne Added, Catpower, Feist, Soko, M.I.A, Yelle, Regina Spector, Nouvelle Vague, Daphne? La Grande Sophie, Corine, Austra, Courtney Barnett, Ire?ne Dre?sel, and its national reach (with an average of forty dates per edition throughout France), the Les Femmes s'en Mêlent festival has become a benchmark both for its influence in the contemporary music sphere and for its action in favor of gender equality.
He was also managing director of the Imperial booking agency from 2004 to 2014 (Christine and the Queens, Nouvelle Vague, Huspuppies, Emily jane White, Soap&Skin, Metric, CSS...), as well as co-creator of the Telescopic label (Hector Zazou, Eleni Mandell, Anna Ternheim, Sophie Moleta, Prudence...).
He is currently working for the association Les Femmes s'en Mêlent and the Swiss Life foundation for the 4-hands music/photo prize.