Music preservation and distribution initiatives
Licensing • Clearances • Consulting
About Aria Artists Music
Music recordings, scores, documents and correspondence can be a valuable source of research and inspiration for music scholars, performing artists, and historians. Materials such as audio and video recordings, films, photographs, letters, manuscripts, memos, and concert notices all contribute to preserving musical history and knowledge.
Aria offers practical services for estates and artists in managing their material legacy, through professional inventory project management, with the goal of reaching a broader public. Thirty years experience variously with American Music Center, Milken Archives, Earle Brown Music Foundation, New York University Fales Library, American Composers Alliance, and Second Evening Art, our work has located, digitized, preserved and promoted musical works worldwide. Our composers and artists have included: T.J. Anderson, H. Leslie Adams, Alexander Tansman, John Everett Watts and Laura Foreman, Earle Brown, Lazare Saminsky, Cantor David Putterman, Griffith Rose, Kermit Moore, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Nicolas Roussakis, Gordon Parks, Burr Van Nostrand, Aaron Copland, Robert Ceely, Robert Hughes, Ann Silsbee, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy, and others.
Current ACTIVITIES
- Writing and promotional campaigns for recordings, concerts, websites, and publications.
- Archival music evaluations for classical composers.
- Director services, including grant consulting, financial management, and budgeting for music projects.
- Catalog reclamation, bringing a collection to more unified control for a composer's legacy.
- Copyright research, registrations, and clearances for 3rd party content.
For composers and estates
What to prepare
Get in touch at link below for an introduction on how to begin processing your archival collection.
Articles & Projects
Selected archives, publications, recordings, and research projects.
Gina Genova
I have dedicated my career to the support, care, and management of archive collections of music scores and recordings for (primarily) 20th Century American composers. I bring together skills in music history, archive management, composer and artist representation, audience and research considerations, to highlight works of self-published American classical music from the recent 100 years.
As director of the American Composers Alliance (2008-2026), I restored and increased public visibility for the organization's assets and increased its revenue and donation support for its music preservation and distribution mission. We generated unprecedented interest in the groundbreaking custodial legacy program, keeping unpublished music “in print”. I strive always for a genuinely collaborative process with the goal of preserving and supporting long-term access to the music scores for current and future users.
I have held concurrent roles in management and in repertoire research work for composers, academic archives, and foundations. I completed a 10-year project for the Milken Archive, contributing to its Grammy and Deems-Taylor Award–winning collection of recordings by American Jewish composers. My practice in working with archival music has been shaped by sustained engagement with artists at all levels of development, making note of their ideas, requests, trends and patterns, and just listening.
I continue to work independently and with teams. I'm currently developing exhibitions for graphic scores, and performance and recording projects. I find lost works, oversee modern engravings and publications for older works, and place collections in libraries and museums.
GET IN TOUCH
For inquiries, collaborations, please send a message below.