Artist Manager Marianne Sciolino Winds Down Business

In Tuesday’s (7/9) Musical America, Susan Elliott writes, “Marianne Sciolino, founder and principal of Sciolino Artist Management (SAM), is winding down her firm as she heads toward retirement. Founded in 2005 with the goal of developing young artists’ careers, particularly those of Black and Latinx string players, Sciolino has over the last year been helping to find new management ‘homes’ for members of her diverse roster. Firms thus far include Suòno Artist Management, Monica Felkel Creative Partners, Blu Ocean Arts, Dinan Arts, Arabella Arts, and Epstein Fox Performances. One of SAM’s former artists, soprano Eileen Strempel, has … become the inaugural dean of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. Sciolino was in her mid-fifties when she launched SAM, a late bloomer with masters degrees in Spanish and finance, a strong entrepreneurial bent, and, by her own reckoning, an ability to spot budding talent with major career potential. Among those who started under her wing: The Harlem Quartet; pianists Michael Stephen Brown and Gabriela Martinez; violinists Elena Urioste, Melissa White, Tessa Lark, and Francisco Fullana; and cellist Nicolas Canellakis…. She cites her late husband, Chester Lane, a longtime editor at Symphony magazine, with helping her … Sciolino also cites pianist Misha Dichter, flutist Amy Porter, and clarinetist Kenon Azmah as artists whose solo careers she helped to develop.”