Talent Management
“Providing the world with a brilliant assemblage of African American classical musicians. “
Thelemaque Associates (pronounced tel-a-mack), a subsidiary of Thelemaque, LLC, agents and manages African American classical musicians, opera singers, musical directors, conductors, string ensembles, orchestras, jazz artists, chorus, instrumentalists, and soloists specializing in classical music, but also genre including theatre, jazz, spoken word and gospel.
Thelemaque Associates began as a small company in Long Island, New York in 1992. The first classical concert was performed to a packed audience and featured the only African American brother and sister classical vocal duet in the USA. Offering listeners an opportunity to hear classical music from a home-grown level, Thelemaque Associates’ developed a basic ideology.
As the parent corporation of THELEMAQUE, Thelemaque Associates provides the world with a brilliant assemblage of African American classical musicians since 1992, as well as Publicity and Marketing services for nearly 20 years. Member of Musical America’s IDPA and recognized as one of only a few national African American owned and operated talent management companies specializing in African American Classical Musicians, Thelemaque Associates offers Black Classical music to audiences by producing concerts, recitals, and performances, as well as provides talent management and agenting; deliberates music deals, negotiates contracts, secures bookings, solicits offers, markets and promotes.
Since then, Thelemaque Associates has had the privileged opportunity to have worked with renowned classical artists and musicians such as
Eric Greene
Lester Greene
Pamela Simonson Ferguson
Joseph Joubert
Roderick Dixon
Frank Mitchell
Alfreda Burke
David Lofton
VaShawn McIlwain
CLASSICAL POETS:
Sistah Joy
and many more talented African American classical musicians and artisans.
Thelemaque Associates continues to hold up the banner of touting talented Black talent in the classical music world by creating performance opportunities for musicians.
Past Thelemaque Associates productions include; recitals, concerts, and events including:
“Cotton Field to Concert Hall”
“Mozart to Motown”
DivaNation”
“Music We Love”
“It’s A Grand Night For Singing!”
and more.
Thelemaque Associates has also partnered with non-profit associations including CAAPA (Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts, Inc.), African Heritage and Cultural Institute of America, Washington National Opera, Virginia Opera and many more in an effort to help exposure for aspiring African Americans in classical music and other realms of the arts.
To contact Thelemaque Associates email your request or send a demo and promo kit to:
Thelemaque Associates, Post Office Box 441608, Fort Washington, MD 20744. 301-203-0929.