MACBETH MEDIA RELATIONS - Key Persons

Anne joined Macbeth Media Relations in 1995 following 16 years in publishing and worked alongside Ginny in developing the agency's infrastructure. After 25 years at Macbeth Media, Anne retired in February 2020 but maintains the connection by looking after the office finances from home.

Avani first joined Macbeth Media Relations back in 2009 after finishing her Brunswick internship. She left in 2016 to start a family and returned to the company at the beginning of 2022. She now works on a part-time basis supporting the rest of the team with her incredible organisational skills on all administrative-related matters.

Finding herself in New York with nearly 10 years of working in various sectors of classical music under her belt - including 18 months touring in Europe and the US with a concert pianist - Ginny set up on her own agency in New York in 1986, and in London in 1989. The combination of being on the road and three years in New York gave her considerable insight into the need for artists and organisations to own their own stories and to be comfortable to tell them. Back in the UK for more than 30 years, the agency continues to maintain its contacts with the US and works with a small and high-profile roster of international clients. Ginny has served on the Board of the ABO since 2014 and was appointed an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2019. She is enormously proud of the fact that Julian Anderson's Prayer for solo viola is dedicated to her.

Jenny recently graduated as a Music Scholar from Royal Holloway University with a First-Class Honours degree in Music, specialising in classical singing. Alongside her academic work, Jenny was Co-Manager and Publicity Director of the Raven Opera Society whilst also directing the publicity for the university choir. Jenny joined Macbeth Media Relations in August 2022 as Administrative Assistant and now takes the lead on the company's social media accounts.

Julian Anderson received the title of CBE for his services his to music in the 2021 New Year's Honours list.

From Bach to Adès, Gerstein's playing is distinguished by a ferocious technique and discerning intelligence, matched with an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of his profession Pianist Kirill Gerstein's heritage combines the traditions of Russian, American and Central European music-making with an insatiable curiosity. These qualities and the relationships that he has developed with orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers and composers, have led him to explore a huge spectrum of repertoire both new and old. Born in the former Soviet Union, Gerstein is an American citizen based in Berlin. His career is similarly international with world-wide performances ranging from concerts with the Chicago and Boston Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw, Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, London Symphony Orches tra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, to recitals in London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris and New York. A long-time believer in the role of teaching, Kirill Gerstein is currently on the faculty of Kronberg Academy and Professor of Piano at Berlin's Hanns Eisler Hochschule. Under the auspices of Kronberg Academy, his series of free and open online seminars entitled Kirill Gerstein invites is now into its fifth season, featuring conversations with leading musicians, artists, and thinkers. Kirill Gerstein's latest release is a recording of Mozart Four-Hand Piano Sonatas with his mentor of 17-years, Ferenc Rados for myrios classics. He first collaborated with the label in 2010 and, through the partnership, has been able to realise many thoughtfully curated projects including included a disc dedicated to Thomas Adès compositions recorded with the composer himself; Strauss's Enoch Arden with the late Bruno Ganz; Busoni's monumental Piano Concerto; and The Gershwin Moment. Decca released his recording of Tchaikovsky's three piano concertos with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov as part of The Tchaikovsky Project and Deutsche Grammophon issued the world première recording of Adès's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra written especially for Gerstein, captured live with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Born in 1979, Kirill Gerstein attended one of Russia's special music schools for gifted children and taught himself to play jazz by listening to his parents' record collection. Following a chance encounter with jazz legend Gary Burton in St. Petersburg when he was 14, he was invited to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied both jazz and classical piano. At the age of 16, he moved to New York City to focus on classical music under Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music. He continued his studies with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. Gerstein is the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, First Prize winner at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition and an Avery Fisher Career Grant holder. In May 2021, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

After graduating from University College of London with a BA in French with Film Studies, Moë spent six months at Intermusica Artists' Management as their Marketing and Publicity Trainee. Prior to joining Macbeth Media Relations in October 2013, Moë's week was split between the press departments at the Barbican Centre and the Royal Opera House. At Macbeth Media, the majority of Moë's work is with the company's long-term clients. Always mindful of "the bigger picture" and the clients' long-term goals, as well as being thoroughly researched and organised, Moë's role involves figuring out short and long term press strategies, collaborating with the press, and daily liaison with the artists.

Job Titles:

• Chief Conductor and Music Director
• Conductor
• Economist