Violist Nadia Sirota has created several wildly successful Kickstarter campaigns. Here, Nadia shares ideas with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson of Noted Endeavors about fundraising videos, ask amounts, and how to create a winning projects.
“A one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine” (Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing works and collaborations from the likes of Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Judd Greenstein, Marcos Balter, and Missy Mazzoli. Her debut album First Things First (New Amsterdam Records) was named a record of the year by The New York Times, and her follow-up Baroque (Bedroom Community and New Amsterdam) has been called “beautiful music of a higher order than anything else you will hear this year” by SPINMedia website PopMatters.
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts talks with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson about the importance of recordings for composers. How good do the recordings need to be? Do they need to be commercial? Watch to find out!
If you hire a publicist, you’ll be the next Yo-Yo Ma, right? In this third installment of the publicist series (Watch Part 1 and Part 2), publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses what you outcomes you can expect when hiring a publicist. With Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
For more about DOTDOTDOTMUSIC and Steven Swartz, go to: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC.net
We’ve all wondered, “What exactly does a publicist do?” In this second installment of the publicist series, publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses this with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
When is the right time to invest in a publicist? Publicist and founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, Steven Swartz, addresses this with Noted Endeavors founders Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson.
Steven Swartz is the founder of DOTDOTDOTMUSIC, which offers public relations services to individuals and organizations in the new music field. Steven’s background includes journalism, radio, the recording industry and PR. He previously spent 16 years as the director of publicity at Boosey & Hawkes. Along with Sarah Baird Knight, his partner in the firm, Steven’s integrated approach to publicity builds careers and audiences through increased visibility and enhanced presentation. As he says, “There’s a galaxy of voices clamoring for attention, and DOTDOTDOTMUSIC helps artists cut through the noise.”
For more about DOTDOTDOTMUSIC and Steven Swartz, go to: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC.net
