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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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Flight of the Concord
The New Yorker - 02/06/2012
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s American touring plans
The Examiner - 02/03/2012
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A Smooth, ‘Big Girl’ Recital
The New York Times - 02/02/2012
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Beverly Sills Artist Award Announced
The New York Times - 01/30/2012
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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
Gil Shaham wins Avery Fisher Prize Read News Release
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NEWS RELEASES
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WQXR presents Rufus Wainwright at The Greene Space (Feb 12)
Published: February 03, 2012On Sunday, February 12 at 7pm, WQXR – the nation’s most listened-to classical radio station – welcomes Juno Award-winning, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright for an intimate evening of performance and conversation at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
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Daniel Hope in NYC, Savannah in Feb/March
Published: February 03, 2012Violinist Daniel Hope rejoins his friends at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to perform "A Celebration of Joseph Joachim" on February 12 at Alice Tully Hall. Mirroring his acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon album of the same name, the program will present both rare and familiar works associated with Joachim, the great 19th-century virtuoso violinist-composer who was friend and collaborator to Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, and Bruch. In March and April, Hope returns for his eighth season as Associate Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival in Georgia. He will lead programs ranging from the complete Brahms sonatas – with frequent piano partner Sebastian Knauer – to Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi with the German period instrument ensemble l'arte del mondo, as well as a number of chamber music concerts with colleagues from around the world. This activity comes just as Hope has renewed his contract as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist.
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Alan Gilbert and NY Phil tour Europe, Feb 2 - 18
Published: February 02, 2012Now in his third season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert returns with the orchestra to the musical capitals of Europe for 14 concerts in seven cities beginning on February 2 in Cologne, Germany. Concerts follow in Luxembourg (Feb 3, 4), Paris (Feb 6 and 7), Frankfurt (Feb 8, 9), Düsseldorf (Feb 11), and Amsterdam (Feb 13, 14); the Düsseldorf and Amsterdam concerts mark Gilbert’s first performances with the orchestra in those cities. The last stop on the tour, London, inaugurates the New York Philharmonic’s International Associates residency at the Barbican, with four concerts on February 16–18; programs include a Young People’s Concert with Jamie Bernstein, as well as a series of educational and outreach activities. The soloists for the tour will be the Philharmonic’s 2011–12 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann, pianist Lang Lang, and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Tour programs include works by Magnus Lindberg and the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, Thomas Adès (the UK premiere of his Polaris), as well as music by Bartók, Beethoven, Mahler, Prokofiev, Ravel, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. Complete tour dates and programs follow below.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to Cleveland, Chicago in Feb
Published: February 02, 2012Returning to the U.S. to resume two of his closest partnerships with American orchestras, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Bartók with the Cleveland Orchestra (February 16-18) and Schoenberg with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (February 24-March 3). Both runs will feature Aimard with one of his most frequent collaborators: conductor Pierre Boulez. Aimard's extended stateside visit – which will also include a nationwide recital tour in March and April – comes as the French pianist has enjoyed a winter of international accolades for his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, The Liszt Project. Aimard marked last year's bicentennial of the great composer-pianist's birth with this double album that features more than two hours of music not only by Liszt but by composers who influenced him and were influenced by him, from Wagner to Messiaen. New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini declared that "Pierre-Laurent Aimard has an ingenious knack for juxtaposing old and new works to tease out fascinating resonances." The Liszt Project was honored as one of 2011's best recordings by the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and the UK's Independent, among others.
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DATEBOOK
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TueFebruary 7:
DEBORAH VOIGT sings Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung for the first time in her career, in the final installment of the Met’s new Robert Lepage production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. [Met; Jan 27, 31, Feb 3, 7, 11]
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ThuFebruary 9:
LEIF OVE ANDSNES returns to the U.S. for a major solo recital tour whose program includes works by Debussy and Chopin. The pianist plays at the Herbst Theatre, Spivey Hall, Carnegie Hall, Carolina Performing Arts, and Chicago's Symphony Center. [Feb 9, San Francisco, CA; Feb 11, Morrow, GA; Feb 12, North Bethesda, MD; Feb 15, New York, CH; Feb 17, Chapel Hill, NC; Feb 19, Chicago, IL]
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SatFebruary 11:
DEBORAH VOIGT sings Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung for the first time in her career, in the final installment of the Met’s new Robert Lepage production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. [Met; Jan 27, 31, Feb 3, 7, 11]
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SatFebruary 11:
LEIF OVE ANDSNES returns to the U.S. for a major solo recital tour whose program includes works by Debussy and Chopin. The pianist plays at the Herbst Theatre, Spivey Hall, Carnegie Hall, Carolina Performing Arts, and Chicago's Symphony Center. [Feb 9, San Francisco, CA; Feb 11, Morrow, GA; Feb 12, North Bethesda, MD; Feb 15, New York, CH; Feb 17, Chapel Hill, NC; Feb 19, Chicago, IL]
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SunFebruary 12:
LEIF OVE ANDSNES returns to the U.S. for a major solo recital tour whose program includes works by Debussy and Chopin. The pianist plays at the Herbst Theatre, Spivey Hall, Carnegie Hall, Carolina Performing Arts, and Chicago's Symphony Center. [Feb 9, San Francisco, CA; Feb 11, Morrow, GA; Feb 12, North Bethesda, MD; Feb 15, New York, CH; Feb 17, Chapel Hill, NC; Feb 19, Chicago, IL]