INDIVIDUAL AND ENSEMBLE CONSULTING

Since leaving IMG Artists in 2007, I have continued to consult with individual artists and ensembles, both with and without management. My activities have ranged from reviewing and advising on press materials, website content, and demo recordings/videos to helping artists match up with managers and presenters. I have invited key industry figures to important artist debuts, arranged auditions for conductors, suggested program directions for artists, based on their unique strengths, and more. My approach is very personal and tailor-made to each artist's gifts and to the particular stage of their career. I have also advised artist managers with regard to the development of their careers.

Philippe Quint

Collaborating with Edna Landau has been an inspiring and invaluable part of my career. Her unparalleled wisdom, passion for the arts, and dedication to fostering meaningful opportunities have left an indelible mark on my artistic journey. She has a rare ability to guide with both vision and heart, always encouraging excellence and authenticity.

Chelsea Guo

Edna Landau is a rare type of person in the industry - a visionary, completely knowledgeable, and incomparably caring. She believed in my potential before anyone else did, and wholeheartedly backed me even as I took the unprecedented step to combine voice and piano into one career track. She has guided me with careful planning and brilliant strategy. Edna has a gift of seeing people for who they are - on both personal and professional levels - and brings out the absolute best in all.

Kelly Hall-Tompkins

It is such a joy to do consulting work with Edna Landau. First of all, I am so honored that she is such a champion of my work, understanding the essence of who I am as an artist and where I want to go. That perceptive understanding together with her vast network of industry professionals, passionately articulate communication skills plus the highest esteem of her colleagues in the field are a very potent combination. I am forever grateful for her introductions, facilitations and advocacy as they continue to be an invaluable asset in my unique artistic path. Edna is a consummate professional in all that she does, while doing her work with warmth, humor, a generous spirit and an openness to new ideas.

Mackenzie Melemed

I was first introduced to Edna Landau during my undergraduate years at The Juilliard School. Her guidance and mentorship was crucial during my studies in the Bachelor, Master, and Artist Diploma programs in New York. She helped me expand my rolodex with key presenters and inspiring conductors, and she guided me effortlessly as I discovered my own artistic path and forged my way forward through the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic era and beyond. As one of the most connected people in the business for decades, she is a fierce advocator for her artists and continues to be a North Star for me as I continue on my journey. Above all, she is a warm and respectable friend of outstanding character. 

THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

In the fall of 2013, I was invited to work at The Juilliard School as a special career consultant. Since that time, I have visited classes, given seminars, and offered one-on-one career advice to students who are wisely thinking about the choices they should be making now and the preparation they should be doing for the years ahead after school. In many cases, I am able to help students capitalize on connections they already have or introduce them to artists and arts administrators who they have long wanted to meet. This work allows me to take advantage of my many years in the music industry and brings me great satisfaction.

Your advocacy and thoughtfulness in guiding our students is very valuable and so appreciated. They are fortunate to have you on their side. — Adam Meyer, Provost, The Juilliard School

Thank you for your thorough report; it is great to see how much you interacted with our artist diploma students and I know they fully appreciate your work with them. We would like you to continue in your role next year as a valued part of our AD program. You’ve been a great asset for the students and helped them in so many ways. — David Ludwig, Dean of Music, The Juilliard School

My appreciation, once again, for all that you do at Juilliard. The students love you. — Robert McDonald, piano faculty

Thank you for spending time yesterday with the conducting fellows in our Orchestral Conducting Seminar. They were all impressed with your thoughtfulness and preparation – amazed is a better word to use, to be honest. They each asked me to thank you again for your insights and for inspiring them. — Jude Vaclavik, Orchestral Conducting Program Coordinator

THE COLBURN SCHOOL

It was a pleasure to be a guest at your class. You offer your students some amazing insights into the real world of the arts and I applaud you for that! You bring a tremendous knowledge and background, based on real life experience, and your students are the richer for it. -- Jeffrey Neville, Personnel Manager, Los Angeles Philharmonic

We were very happy to visit your class and to see how much energy and guidance you are investing in these wonderful students. Plus, we always learn ourselves, spending time with you. -- Andrew Bulbrook, The Calder Quartet

I just wanted to say thank you for your help and care. You've inspired me to really go for my career goal and the wisdom you shared, even over one lunch, was so abundantly given. We are truly lucky and blessed to have someone like you at Colburn, or anywhere else for that matter. -- a student violinist

FRIENDS OF THE BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

This association evolved out of my managerial relationship with its Music Director, Ivan Fischer. At his request, I helped to organize this group of supporters in America in 2008. I worked with the board for five years, coordinating annual activities that lent much needed help to the orchestra’s international efforts. In addition, I assisted with donor cultivation and functioned as a liaison between the board and the orchestra in Budapest.

The success of the Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra has been due in part to Edna Landau’s intense dedication and indefatigable efforts on its behalf. -- Daisy M. Soros, Chairman

VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION

I was engaged in 2011 to act as a mentor to their new Director of Artistic Planning, offering guidance in working most effectively and strategically with presenters and in developing the careers of their competition winners.

It seems most appropriate that thirty years after your first visit to the Van Cliburn Competition, where you were inspired to sign for management the wonderful pianist, Jeffrey Kahane, you returned to Ft. Worth to inspire our Director of Artistic Planning with your rich experience, vision and love for nurturing the young artist. Thank you for coming to Texas and giving us your valuable time and wisdom. You have a great fan club in Ft. Worth and future Cliburn winners will be in your debt! -- Alann Sampson, Interim President and CEO