Project management and business services for composers and other artists
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.
Gina Genova and Aria Artists offer practical services for estates and artists in managing their material legacy, through professional inventory listings and managing various types of projects, with the goal of reaching a broader public through library and online resources.
Aria has placed collections with institutions worldwide, for a variety of composers and artists, including: Alexander Tansman, John Everett Watts, Earle Brown, Lazare Saminsky, Cantor David Putterman, Griffith Rose, Kermit Moore, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Nicolas Roussakis, Gordon Parks, H. Leslie Adams, Burr Van Nostrand, Aaron Copland, Terry Winter Owens, and others.
Services
- Executive Director, financial management, bookkeeping and budgeting for music organizations.
- Catalog reclamation, bringing a dispersed collection to more unified control for managing a composer's legacy.
- Project manager for recordings, websites, and sheet music publications.
- Archival music evaluations for professional placement and advocacy.
- Copyright research, registrations, clearances for 3rd party content.
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. Currently working at gathering content for a website and curatorial exhibition for a group of California composers, I bring together skills in music history, archive management, composer and artist representation, audience and scholarly research considerations, and in strategic highlighting the rich legacy of largely unpublished American classical music from the recent 100 years.
As director of the American Composers Alliance, 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. My team rebuilt the aging databases and doubled the size of the catalog by digging into ACA's archives and by managing and supporting living composers' new works. We generated unprecedented interest in the groundbreaking custodial legacy program, keeping music “in print”. Working alongside exceptional colleagues, I developed a sustainable, forward-looking catalog built through 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 as a consultant, currently developing exhibitions, performance and recording projects, finding lost works, overseeing modern engravings and publications for older works, and placing collections in libraries and museums. My overall goal is to strategically help promote American compositions for performance opportunities, in current collaboration with colleagues in the U.S. and abroad. I am a proud member of the Artistic Advisory Committee for the Boston-based Castle of our Skins 2025-26.
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