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's diverse roster of musicians and composers includes: the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet and the Peabody Trio; composers Osvaldo Golijov and Michael Torke; cellists David Finckel and Steven Isserlis; pianist Wu Han; violinist Anne Akiko Meyers; and 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 the Caramoor International Music Festival, the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, 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. Over the past four years, the firm has promoted Music at the Anthology (MATA) -- a New York-based festival led by Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa and Eleanor Sandresky, presenting a new generation of emerging composers from around the world. On the west coast, the agency has represented a number of cultural institutions, most recently, Music@Menlo. Based in California's Bay Area, this new two-week summer festival presents some of the country's best-known artists and scholars in a combination of performances, workshops and lectures. 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 recently invited Milina Barry PR to serve as the music press consultant for the nationwide promotional campaign of "Together," the latest work from 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, New York's Eos Orchestra, 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. This coming season, Milina Barry PR will launch Ecstatic Records, a label established to re-release the discography of Michael Torke, previously issued by Argo/Decca Records.

PUBLISHING
In addition, 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, the agency organized an international campaign in tandem with Amadeus Press to launch the publication of Barbara Lourie Sand's biography, "Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician". Milina Barry PR collaborated with Yale University Press on the national publicity leading up to the publication of "New World Symphonies," the recent book by music critic Jack Sullivan. Reaching out to a young readership, the firm promoted Steven Isserlis's new children's book, "Why Beethoven Threw the Stew: And Lots More Stories about the Lives of Great Composers". A new 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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