Dan Visconti might be best known for being a pioneer in classical music entrepreneurship. He seems to be everywhere: from his acclaimed TED talks to insightful column in the Huffington Post to key artistic advisory/programming positions.
— THE CLASSICAL POST
For Immediate Release - May 31, 2024 - New York, NY - Composer and entrepreneur Dan Visconti today announced the launch of Visconti Arts, a new management company with a unique roster of adventurous composers, conductors, soloists, and special projects, and a mission to serve the unique management needs of artists who are re-imagining rather than simply recreating.
With an acclaimed roster of composers, conductors, soloists, and special projects that includes Tobias Picker, Kati Agócs, Vijay Gupta, Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Rei Hotoda, Mélisse Brunet, Mary Elizabeth Bowden, Rachel Lee Priday, and more, the new company will create bespoke, tailored management strategies to meet the needs of artists across a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds, unified in their efforts to push the boundaries of their art form and effect meaningful change through music.
Said Visconti of the new company: "In my musical life, I’ve had the opportunity to play many roles in the creative process: as a composer, artistic director, curator, consultant, writer, and speaker – all vantage points which inform a broad perspective of our creative ecosystem and the unique needs of musical artists. My approach is driven by above all seeking to nourish, support, and celebrate each artist’s authentic self by cultivating their own unique vision and values. Visconti Arts prioritizes deep strategic planning and creating new frameworks for developing adventurous collaborative projects – with a commitment to the total artist and human serving as our guiding light."
More information about Visconti Arts can be found at www.viscontiarts.com
COMPOSERS
KATI AGÓCS, Composer
KEBRA-SEYOUN CHARLES, Bassist & Composer
HORACIO FERNÁNDEZ, Composer
JEREMY GILL, Composer & Conductor
BRITTANY J. GREEN, Composer
TOBIAS PICKER, Composer
CONDUCTORS
MÉLISSE BRUNET, Conductor
JEREMY GILL, Composer & Conductor
REI HOTODA, Conductor
ROGER KALIA, Conductor
SOLOISTS
MARY ELIZABETH BOWDEN, Trumpeter
KEBRA-SEYOUN CHARLES, Bassist & Composer
VIJAY GUPTA, Violinist & Changemaker
BRITTANY LASCH, Trombonist
RACHEL LEE PRIDAY, Violinist
SPECIAL PROJECTS
FORRÓPERA, Chrystal E. Williams, Vocalist/Composer & Felipe Hostins, Accordionist/Composer
JOURNEY LIVE, GRAMMY®-nominated audience-interactive video game symphony
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As both a composer and an entrepreneur, Dan Visconti is committed to reimagining the role of classical music in the 21st century. As an advocate for change in the arts – both in how music engages with the communities around it and in the way that artists can address social issues through music – Visconti was awarded a 2014 TED Fellowship, and his numerous speaking engagements include a TED talk at the conference’s thirtieth anniversary, as well as at the National Archive, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and more. His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, NewMusicBox, ArtsJournal, Medium, 21CM Magazine, and Symphony Magazine.
Before founding his management company Visconti Arts, he served in lead artistic roles for national organizations like Washington DC’s Contemporary Music Forum/VERGE Ensemble (the nation’s longest-standing organization for contemporary music), Astral Artists, a nonprofit intensive mentoring program that specializes in developing the early careers of extraordinary classical musicians, and Chicago’s Fifth House Ensemble, which The New York Times praised for its “conviction, authority and finesse,” the San Francisco Chronicle hailed as “spirited music-making of the finest kind,” and the Chicago Tribune cited as an example of “how far talent and imagination can go to create something bracingly different.”
As a composer, he has worked with luminaries like Pulitzer-winning librettist Cerise Jacobs, Grammy-winning soloist Jason Vieaux, jazz legend Branford Marsalis, new music supergroup Alarm Will Sound, Grammy-winning percussionist Shane Shanahan of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, Eighth Blackbird, the JACK Quartet, Kronos Quartet, and more. His compositions have been honored with the Rome Prize and Berlin Prize, the Bearns Prize from Columbia University, the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing Arts, the Barlow Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize; awards from BMI and ASCAP, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Naumburg Foundation; and grants from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Chamber Music America.
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