What Can Artist Management Do For Composers

You have to ask yourself, if performing artist’s use artist managers, what can an artist manager do for a music composer. Essentially promotion will be the focus in managing a composer. Due to artist managers working with various clients they have the contacts to Send your music out, talk to directors about your music catalog and look for commission project opportunities. However, for a composer like myself I prefer to employ an artist manager to handle the business aspect of my career. This will allow me to focus on the creative process, which is the music. There comes a point in a composer’s career when they know that they cannot push their skills as hard as somebody like a manager can push. When a music composer feels overwhelmed by the amount of project details and has countless commitments in a short period of time, in my opinion is where an artist manager can place their worth.

Another facet of using an artist manager stems from when you’re considered a relative new composer. In today’s industry it is hard to get anyone to listen to your work without already being industry relevant. So as a new composer how can you bridge the gap between your work and an industry professional? You guessed it right; you can have an artist manager on the payroll to bridge that gap. Even when a composer is well known in the industry there is a need for someone to advocate for them cause there is always directors and orchestras who do not know who you are. Another benefit for a composer using an artist manager is that a manager can have social prerogative to speak more freely and push harder stakeholders and potential stakeholders because it’s their job. As a composer your skill may allow you to speak with many people but as a manager, they can speak to twice as many people as a composer can. For example, you would love to score the next X-Men film but don’t have a connection with the director. That is another avenue the manager can tread through; there may be people involved in the film that the manager works with regularly. So what can artist management do for composers? Well they can become the manager, the agent as well as the business. This will allow you to concentrate on what they should be concentrating on, writing music.