Aeolian Artists International Management, Inc. was founded by artist manager Ms. Catherine Sidoti. It was created culminating the vision to help support classically trained musicians and opera singers with the intention to develop prosperous careers in classical music.
A native New Yorker residing in NYC, Ms. Catherine Sidoti has spent over 20 years in marketing, advertising, sales, classical music and opera. Her family ancestry originates from the Aeolian Island of Lipari, which is just north west of the Mediterranean island of Sicily, Italy. In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeolus is the king of the winds and she helps to breathe the essential life force into artists by guiding them, the focus is on landing working venue contracts.
Her unique background began when she worked for the esteemed Thea Dispeker Artist Management Company in New York. Some of the artists she has worked with include Richard Leech, Hakan Hagegard and Richard Zeller all of whom have prosperous international careers and have appeared numerous times at the Metropolitan Opera and internationally.
Ms. Sidoti is also a judge on vocal competitions having judged singers along with Carmela Altamura and Maestro Coppola for the Altamura Caruso voice competitions where grants have been given to talented young singers. She studied voice with Arturo Callegari and piano with Maria Russo, a colleague of pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for many years and after some time, she knew that because of her love of great classical music and opera and her strengths in business and marketing, she was well suited for a career in classical music artist management. Her approach with her artists is a whole artist approach where she works with the artist to build on his or her career from the inside out; quite literally, she ís a career builder and advisor. Her liaisons are numerous New York coaches, conductors and singing teachers as well as staff at the Juilliard, Mannes, and Manhattan School of Music along with many opera, concert, oratorio and festival venues throughout the world. She is also a concert producer and the former artistic director of Renaissance Opera Theatre where she was one of the first impresarios to create theme related concerts in New York. Ms. Sidoti has sold over 3 million dollars in international and national business and has a great reputation for being able to sell with integrity for many years.
Catherine Sidoti
President Artist Manager
Aeolian Artists International Management, Inc.
