Universal Music Group has introduced a chain of strategic promotions around the govt control workforce inside of its Global Classics & Jazz department. Those appointments replicate the corporate’s ongoing dedication to expansion and can supply centered sources to boost up additional transformation of its global industry and market-leading classical and jazz labels.

Over the last two years Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz artists have garnered international consideration together with Andrea Bocelli’s record-breaking livestream at Milan’s Duomo and Jon Batiste’s landmark 11 Grammy Award nominations. The Global Classics & Jazz workforce labored intently with their spouse labels to construct on their luck to reach wide global succeed in. Jazz and classical tune listenership grew considerably all over the pandemic as each new and long-term fanatics explored the genres.

Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz department works with the corporate’s marketplace main and iconic classical and jazz labels, together with Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Blue Notice, ECM, Verve/Decca US and Mercury KX, and is dedicated to rising the global profile for his or her genre-leading artists and labels.

“Those new appointments constitute the consistent evolution of our global industry”

“Those new appointments constitute the consistent evolution of our global industry,” mentioned Sam Jackson, EVP, Global Classics & Jazz. “This outstanding workforce will beef up enlargement and diversification around the pivotal spaces of global advertising, communications, artist technique and target market analytics. All in favour of turning in our artists’ numerous inventive ambitions, they are going to paintings in conjunction with our labels and companions, providing their world experience and unrivalled perception.”

“Those adjustments mark the newest step in our venture to ship best-in-class carrier for our improbable artists”

Dickon Stainer, President & CEO, Global Classics & Jazz added, “Those adjustments mark the newest step in our venture to ship best-in-class carrier for our improbable artists, and for those genres of tune which cling world cultural importance and are of significant significance to us at UMG.”

Liz Chunk, based totally in London, takes on a brand new function as Senior Director, Global Priorities – Advertising, having spent two years as Director, International Advertising. Chunk joined Universal Music Group in 2011 from EMI Classics and has delivered extremely a success advertising campaigns for Andrea Bocelli, together with his primary album Si and Ludovico Einaudi’s Cinema, that includes rankings from his Oscar- and BAFTA-winning movies. Chunk has masterminded global campaigns for celebrity artists together with Ennio Morricone, Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli and Ólafur Arnalds. She’s going to lead a workforce spanning London and Berlin, developing world campaigns for a variety of high-profile tasks throughout Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz roster, in addition to supporting new, rising and growing artists.

Rachel Tregenza expands her function to develop into Senior Director, Global Priorities – Communications & Artist Technique, after two years main on PR for the department and shaping global album campaigns for classical and jazz artists together with Max Richter, Lang Lang, Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Víkingur Ólafsson and Gregory Porter. She additionally labored along Chunk on Bocelli’s Music For Hope tournament which turned into one of the vital largest musical reside flow performances of all-time, with 3 million top concurrent audience.

Tregenza joined Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz department after 5 years at Decca the place she labored throughout a large number of key media campaigns. She’s going to focal point on new audiences for classical and jazz, riding artist technique whilst running with label colleagues, artists and UMG Global Communications.

George Irwin is promoted to the newly created function of Target market & Analytics Supervisor, reporting to Paul Moseley, SVP, Content material & Information. He’ll tell and carry international virtual campaigns.

Because the classical and jazz genres keep growing, focal point stays on increasing inventive alternatives. The simultaneous emphasis on attractive present listeners while attracting new fanatics international stays on the middle of Universal Music Group’s Global Classics & Jazz department, making sure outstanding artists and their tune are shared with the broadest imaginable listener base.

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