02/09/2009 How is it for a manager to manage his own father?

Pierre Rieu (29), son of violinist Andre Rieu, has the experience of an expert in this. "In the beginning it was difficult.  To get work orders from him just went over: more than just the table."

Fathers who work with their sons, are a familiar phenomenon. Hans Robben, the father of just transferred to Bayern Munich football star Arjen, is perhaps the best known example. The risk that such a relationship might cause strains, is in large degree a matter of involvement. So father gave Hans Arjen is sure not to PSV and Ajax Amsterdam was because the program leaves his name was misspelled (Arjan, in place of Arjen).

Proud Father
How to keep the son so happy and sensitive makes many a proud father, is the question. This is why so many artists and athletes keep the business side outside the family. The band has simply much blood sensitivities. Yet it seems difficult for a manager to represent interests of your father. Problem with fathers is that they, especially as they age, are always right and their son has 'much to learn.' "It is sometimes difficult," says Pierre Rieu, son and manager of violinist Andre Rieu. "Sometimes he has ideas, such as the reverse engineer of Schönbrunn castle as a stage in the last tour, which many people, including my mother, thinking that this will be his final demand, stopping him by besting him, we being unable to do this, but later we admit he has been right yet again."
 

Your father is much in the news because he is the best selling male artist in the world live. To what extent is this also the success driven by his manager?
"How about yourself? Look, there are many artists who have a lot of good people behind them and still much sell many fewer less concert tickets than my dad. And so I have the answer. No, the people come to him and nothing and nobody otherwise. We have to do that last year going around giant castle tours in Australia, but without the castle and without the light show they had him come down. But we want to make sure that the 30,000 people who regularly sit in the stadiums all respect a great evening experience they will never forget."

Is the relationship with your father changed when you became his manager?
"Well, certainly in the beginning it was all apart. Nine years ago, began the point he was not only my father, but my employer. That was very strange. It was not really without a struggle, but we have solved everything in the beginning because we talk to each other very well. Now we are truly a gold team. But in the beginning it was difficult to get orders from him to just go beyond : more than just the table."

If the manager Joop van Ende (very famous billionare & manager in Holland) wants to become Andre Rieu’s manager, will you then let him?  
"As long as my father performs, I am his manager. As long as he remains in the box, there is no question of me leaving him. I know Joop van den Ende a while, I will thank him for the wonderful offer, but still very friendly reject it."