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ABOUT 21C
21C Media Group is an independent public relations, marketing, and consulting firm specializing in classical music and the performing arts. Our clients range from solo artists, ensembles and performing arts institutions to record labels, media organizations and Fortune 500 companies.
The 21C team draws upon a broad spectrum of experience in the music industry, in areas including publicity, marketing, career development, record production, artist management, publishing and new media. Through its own network of contacts and relationships, and through an affiliation with the London/Hamburg-based Albion Media, 21C provides its services throughout North America, as well as support, when desired, in Europe and the Far East.
21C was founded in 2000, inspired by the belief that classical music and the performing arts deserve to play a greater role enriching people's lives.
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IN THE PRESS
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Baritone Thomas Hampson revels in joining poem and music
The Boston Globe - 04/26/2013
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'Gotterdammerung:' A Sublime Celebration Of Richard Wagner's Bicentennial
Latinos Post - 04/25/2013
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Stephen Costello in Lucia di Lammermoor: Dark, claustrophobic, and highly enjoyable
The Globe & Mail - 04/20/2013
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Deborah Voigt: Sunday routine - A Day Away From the Stage
The New York Times - 04/14/2013
ALBERT’S BLOGS
In addition to being the Managing Director and Co-Founder of 21C Media Group, Albert Imperato is an active blogger. Check out Albert’s blogs at the following links:
Gramophone: New York Insider
Classical 20 Questions at Playbill Arts
Huffington Post
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NEWS RELEASES
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Michael Hersch’s new DVD/CD – “The Sudden Pianist” – due for release May 28
Published: May 22, 2013May 28 sees the release of The Sudden Pianist, a special DVD/CD set from Michael Hersch that celebrates his twin achievements as a composer for piano and as the foremost exponent of his own piano works. The DVD will pair The Sudden Pianist – a new documentary about him by filmmaker Richard Anderson – with Michael Hersch: Live at Merkin Hall, the composer/pianist’s live concert rendition of his own Suite from the Vanishing Pavilions. This same live performance may also be heard on the accompanying audio CD, which, like the DVD, will be issued by Innova Recordings.
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Alessio Bax wins 2013 Martin E. Segal Award
Published: May 20, 2013Fast-rising pianist Alessio Bax was recognized on May 20 with a 2013 Martin E. Segal Award, which carries a cash prize of $7,500. Since 1987, Lincoln Center has conferred these prestigious awards annually on two emerging young artists or ensembles in recognition of their exceptional accomplishments. The second 2013 award went to actress/singer Shalita Grant. Previous winners include pianist Jonathan Biss, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, the Brentano and Borromeo String Quartets, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, director Thomas Kail, dancer Daniel Ulbricht, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and conductor Xian Zhang. The announcement follows on the heels of another of the Italian pianist’s accolades, for it was only in March that Bax – whose honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant and first prizes in the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions – won the 2013 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.
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Deborah Voigt’s First Visit to Mainland China Caps Spring Season
Published: May 16, 2013Deborah Voigt makes her debut in mainland China this month, when she rediscovers her inner Broadway baby in concerts with Beijing’s China Philharmonic (May 25) and the Shanghai Symphony (May 31) led by Tony Award-winner Ted Sperling. Late spring also finds the soprano gracing an orchestral gala with the Puerto Rico Symphony on June 8, and giving recitals in Jackson, MS (May 17) and Northridge, CA (May 19). These engagements follow a recent pair of “Ring” cycles at the Metropolitan Opera, where she reprised her hit portrayal of Brünnhilde, “a role she has made her own” (New York Times).
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Soprano Angela Meade is Washington National Opera’s Artist of the Year
Published: May 14, 2013Angela Meade has just been named Artist of the Year by the Washington National Opera (WNO). The May 13 announcement comes on the heels of the soprano’s triumphant company debut, in which she “thrilled WNO devotees with her nearly mind-blowing mastery of Bellini’s most challenging music” (Washington Times) in the title role of Norma. Previous recipients of the Artist of the Year award, which carries a $5,000 cash prize, include mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade and Denyce Graves, tenor Jerry Hadley, and conductor John Mauceri.
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DATEBOOK
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ThuMay 23:
Concerts at One, TRINITY WALL STREET’s longest-running series of free concerts (presented on Thursday afternoons), expands again this year with its own mini-festival kicking off the season. Twelve in 12, featuring NOVUS NY with conductor Julian Wachner, performs twelve different works by twelve recent Pulitzer Prize winners in music composition. Works include John Adams’s Son of Chamber Symphony, Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations, STEVEN STUCKY’s Sonate en forme de preludes, Puts’s Einstein on Mercer Street, and Corigliano’s Winging It. [Trinity Church]
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SatMay 25:
Already noted for her portrayal of Mozart’s Susanna, ANNA NETREBKO sings her first Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. [Baden-Baden, Germany; May 17, 20, 23, 25]
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SatMay 25:
Deborah Voigt performs in Beijing, China with the China Philharmonic
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FriMay 31:
Deborah Voigt performs in Shanghai, China with the Shanghai Philharmonic.
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SatJune 1:
JEREMY DENK performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of composer/conductor John Adams. [Washington, DC; May 30, 31, June 1]