NATALIA VILLANUEVA GARCÍA

Natalia Villanueva García has spent over 14 years designing and delivering high-profile productions and events where technical excellence and human sensitivity go hand in hand. She holds an MBA in Project Management and completed a Leadership and Management Training, both at the WU Executive Academy in Vienna.

 

As the founder and managing director of Max Steiner Orchestra GmbH — Austria's first symphony orchestra dedicated to film and video game music — she built and led an organization that delivered more than 280 productions across Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Her clients included Red Bull Media House, Universal Music, FOX, MTV Unplugged, and Netflix, and she worked with artists such as Anna Netrebko, Erwin Schrott, Andreas Gabalier, Seiler & Speer, and Andrew Lloyd Webber — managing budgets, artist relations and live execution, with teams of up to 104 people.

 

For seven years, she served as Music Supervisor for Hollywood in Vienna, working directly alongside Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, James Horner, Randy Newman, David Newman, and James Newton Howard. She later served as Assistant to four-time Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman himself during The World of Danny Elfman European tour, providing professional musical assistance to ensure the highest quality orchestral interpretation of his work, with performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Smetana Hall in Prague. From 2018 to 2026, she served as Music Coordinator for The World of Hans Zimmer, one of the world's most successful arena tours.

 

In recognition of her creative leadership, she was honored by the President of Colombia as one of the 100 most successful Colombians abroad. Across all of these roles, a consistent thread runs through her work: the belief that the quality of an experience is inseparable from the quality of the human relationships behind it. She leads with structure and with heart.

 

Beyond her production work, she served on the board of the Female Leaders Network at WU Executive Academy — one of Austria's leading women's networks with approximately 2,000 members — and as a board member of NIWA – Network of International Women in Austria.

 

Natalia is faculty lecturer at the Music and Arts University of the city of Vienna, and is trilingual in Spanish, German, and English. She is currently based in Vienna and looking to bring her expertise in premium event design, high-profile stakeholder management, and people-centered leadership to an organization where excellence and the human dimension of every client relationship are equally valued.