Established in 1998, Milina Barry PR is a public relations firm offering a wide range of marketing and promotional services for the performing arts industry. The company designs publicity campaigns to meet the unique goals of individuals, ensembles, cultural institutions and businesses.

Milina Barry PR works with clients year round and on a project basis. The firm has represented a diverse roster of artist including the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Peter Boyer and Michael Torke; the conductor Semyon Bychkov; the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet and the Peabody Trio; the cellists David Finckel and Steven Isserlis; the pianist Wu Han; the violinist Anne Akiko Meyers; the classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, and the sopranos Ann Monoyios and Marguerite Krull.

As the press representative for many of today's leading arts organizations, Milina Barry PR has devised publicity campaigns for Canada's Banff International String Competition, the Caramoor International Music Festival, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, California's La Jolla Music Society and Stanford Lively Arts, the Boston Philharmonic, Cologne's WDR Sinfonie Orchester and Rome's Orchestra da Camera Italiana.

FESTIVALS
Working closely with music festivals across the country, Milina Barry PR has secured widespread news coverage in international, national and regional media outlets. Most recently, the firm promoted Music at the Anthology (MATA) -- a New York-based festival led by Philip Glass and Lisa Bielawa, featuring a new generation of emerging composers from around the world. On the west coast, the agency has represented a number of cultural institutions,  and has had the pleasure of collaborating with the Music@Menlo since its inception in 2002. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the internationally acclaimed festival and institute was founded by David Finckel and Wu Han and features unique immersive programming, a roster of world-class artists, and a Chamber Music Institute for emerging and pre-professional musicians. Previously, Milina Barry PR handled public relations for SummerFest La Jolla in southern California. Under the firm's direction, La Jolla attracted unprecedented press attention in the US and abroad, becoming one of the country's leading music festival destinations.

FILM
The firm's wide-ranging activities extend to the motion picture industry. United Artists/ MGM invited Milina Barry PR to serve as the music press consultant for the nationwide promotional campaign of "Together," a film by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige, director of the Oscar nominated film "Farewell My Concubine." Milina Barry PR generated news coverage across the country in newspapers, magazines, wire services, television, radio and online media. In preparation for the release in select markets across the United States, the firm organized a series of special events and screenings in collaboration with Carnegie Hall, Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston's New England Conservatory.

RECORDINGS
Milina Barry PR also works closely with the recording industry. The firm manages publicity for ArtistLed, the classical music industry's first Internet based recording company. ArtistLed has been the subject of numerous feature stories around the globe in publications such as The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Billboard, BBC Music Magazine, London's Time Out, and Tokyo's Ongaku-no-Tomo. The publicity generated in print media outlets led to television coverage on NBC Nightly News, A & E Breakfast with the Arts, and CNN.  Milina Barry PR launched Ecstatic Records, a label established to re-release the discography of Michael Torke, previously issued by Argo/Decca Records.

PUBLISHING
Milina Barry PR offers an array of promotional services tailored to meet the needs of publishers and authors in the performing arts community. Most recently, Milina Barry PR collaborated with Yale University Press on the national publicity leading up to the publication of "Hitchcock's Music" and "New World Symphonies," two critically acclaimed books by author Jack Sullivan. The agency organized an international campaign in tandem with Amadeus Press to launch the publication of Barbara Lourie Sand's definitive biography, "Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician". Reaching out to a young readership, the firm promoted Steven Isserlis's children's book, "Why Beethoven Threw the Stew: And Lots More Stories about the Lives of Great Composers". A publication offering children a unique and lively introduction to the world of classical music, the book is published by Faber and Faber in the UK and by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States.

BACKGROUND
Prior to establishing the firm, Milina Barry was the Director of Public Relations at Shirley Kirshbaum & Associates, Inc., where she worked with many of today's leading musicians and performing arts organizations. While at that firm from 1992-97, she managed publicity for a wide variety of clients including The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Concerts & Lectures series, Mariss Jansons and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Dublin International Piano Competition, the Tokyo String Quartet and Christopher Parkening. She also coordinated the public relations campaign for an American tour featuring principal dancers of New York City Ballet and violinist Young Uck Kim. In 1998, she went on to work independently with flutist James Galway, and composers John Corigliano and David Del Tredici.

Milina Barry studied at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and is a graduate of New York University. She is a frequent guest lecturer at The Juilliard School.

 
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