Concord Music Publishing Elevates Kourtney Kirkpatrick & Matt Turner

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Kourtney Kirkpatrick & Matt Turner.

Concord Music Publishing has promoted Kourtney Kirkpatrick to Senior Vice President of Synchronization and Matt Turner to Vice President of A&R.

Kirkpatrick currently leads the television division, overseeing series, promos, trailers and sports media, and managing a team of three direct reports in Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. In her new position, Kirkpatrick will continue her work pitching and licensing songs from Concord writers, promoting catalogs such as those by Rodgers & Hammerstein, John Fogerty, Phil Collins and Genesis, Robert Johnson and more. She and her team will focus on reimagining these works to make them suitable for sync placements, with her deep knowledge of the catalog playing a crucial role in revitalizing Concord’s collection through remixes and covers.

During her time at Concord, Kirkpatrick and her team have secured sync placements across a wide range of television series on nearly all major networks and streaming platforms, including The Bear, The Penguin, Shrinking, Hacks, You, Euphoria, Stranger Things, Yellowstone, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ozark, Big Little Lies, True Detective: Night Country, Ted Lasso and Grey’s Anatomy. Their work also spans trailer placements for studios like FOX, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Apple, Amazon and Starz, as well as for major brands like Xbox and Microsoft. Over the course of her career, Kirkpatrick has also signed and developed sync-focused artists and writers, including Ruelle, who has been featured on Billboard/TuneFind’s year-end chart of Top Synced Artists multiple times, reaching the top spot in 2018.

Kirkpatrick also leads Concord’s annual sync camp in Nashville, now in its twelfth year. The event brings together over 80 songwriters and several music supervisors for a week of creating original music for all types of media. To date, the camp has resulted in more than 350 sync placements. In addition to the Nashville camp, Kirkpatrick has driven the global expansion of Concord’s sync camps, tailoring them to specific regions and media types. Over the past year, Concord has hosted ten sync-focused writing camps in locations such as Los Angeles, Nashville, Ireland, Dorset, Paris, New Zealand and Mexico City, among others.

Kirkpatrick was recognized on Billboard’s 40 Under 40 list in 2020 and is a member of the Nashville Film Festival. She is also a founding board member of Nashville in Sync, a community-driven organization for sync professionals focused on connecting and growing the music and film industries in Nashville. Before joining Concord in 2018, Kirkpatrick served as Senior Director of Film/TV at Razor & Tie (which was later acquired by Concord) and began her career at the independent publisher Big Yellow Dog Music, where she helped establish the company’s sync department.

In his new position as VP of A&R, Turner will maintain his responsibilities of discovering talent, managing new client negotiations and driving catalog exploitation. This promotion recognizes his commitment and contributions to Concord, particularly his efforts in expanding the company’s roster within the Nashville and country music scenes. Turner works with a wide range of songwriters in the country genre, including recording artists, producers and topliners.

With 18 years of experience in the industry, Turner brings executive-level insights to the team and has helped bring some of the top talent in the industry to the Concord roster, driving success on the country charts. In 2024, songwriters from Concord’s Nashville roster contributed to five Country Radio No. 1s and, within the first month of 2025, they’ve already added more, including Morgan Wallen’s “Lies Lies Lies,” Parmalee’s “Gonna Love You” and Dan + Shay’s “Bigger Houses.” Turner has played a key role in securing publishing deals with writers like Josh Miller, Andy Albert and Abram Dean, all of whom have earned No. 1 hits.

Before joining Concord, Turner worked at the independent publisher Big Loud Shirt, now known as Big Loud, where he collaborated closely with founder Craig Wiseman and writers such as Chris Tompkins, Rodney Clawson, Matt Dragstrem and the Warren Brothers. He was also involved in the early songwriting careers of Morgan Wallen and Chris Lane. After his time at Big Loud, Turner joined Downtown Music Publishing, where he represented their extensive roster of writers, including country music hitmakers Andy Albert, Andrew DeRoberts and Joey Hyde. Turner’s promotion highlights Concord’s continued growth in Nashville and the expansion of its country music roster.

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