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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. The company 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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eighth blackbird: First Listen: Steve Reich, 'Double Sextet, 2x5'
NPR - 09/07/2010
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That hot new song? It's really 400 years old: Music by Monteverdi from 1610 has found fans in 2010 on the iTunes charts thanks to Coral Gables' Seraphic Fire.
Miami Herald - 09/03/2010
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High notes at the opera house: Coolidge Corner Theatre screens European operas
Boston Globe - 08/20/2010
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Jeremy Denk’s Top 5 Piano Works
WQXR - 08/17/2010
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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:
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NEWS RELEASES
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Yefim Bronfman: autumn 2010
Published: September 06, 2010Yefim Bronfman covers a vast breadth of virtuoso piano repertoire, as his 2010-11 schedule serves to underscore. His autumn concerto programs across the U.S. and Europe range from Prokofiev and Bartók to Tchaikovsky and Brahms. As the duo partner of violinist-violist and longtime friend Pinchas Zukerman, he performs Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms on a November tour of America capped with an appearance at Carnegie Hall. And, in December, Bronfman tours Austria and Germany playing the Piano Concerto written for him by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with the composer conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for their Deutsche Grammophon recording of the concerto, Bronfman and Salonen have a long history of winning awards together; they won a Grammy in 1997 for their Bartók concertos album.
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“Music Makes a City” opens in New York, Sep 17
Published: August 31, 2010From Sept 17 – 23, New Yorkers will have a chance to see a “tale of artistic vision” (Symphony) at the Quad Cinema. The feature-length documentary film Music Makes a City tells a tale of civic aspiration, cultural ingenuity, and how Louisville, Kentucky became the world's unlikely capital of new music in the 1950s. According to Sedgwick Clark, of MusicalAmerica.com, “Anyone interested in classical music should see this uplifting story of American ingenuity at its best.”
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René Pape: autumn 2010
Published: August 30, 2010René Pape will be the toast of the opera world again this season when he assumes two of his signature roles on two of the world's greatest stages: the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in a new production at New York's Metropolitan Opera (Oct 11-30) and Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre as part of the ongoing Ring cycle at Milan's La Scala (Dec 7 - Jan 2). The Dresden native, dubbed "today's reigning bass" by the Chicago Sun-Times, also features in another of his great roles – Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal – on a recording of the opera led by Valery Gergiev, due out on September 14 on the Mariinsky label.
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Seraphic Fire's Vespers hits #1 on iTunes
Published: August 29, 2010Seraphic Fire’s self-released recording of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 soared to #1 on the iTunes classical chart over the weekend, and briefly rose above pop diva Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) on the iTunes all-genre chart on Sunday. The rapid success of Seraphic Fire’s “indie” outing prompted NPR’s All Things Considered to run its story about Seraphic Fire, “From Zero to Hero”, on its weekend edition. “It promptly landed in the Top 10 classical recordings on iTunes, sandwiched between the London Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach,” enthused NPR’s Jeff Lunden. “What makes this surprising is that the recording is by a little-known Miami-based professional choir called Seraphic Fire — and the musicians released it themselves.”