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Charles Hamlen is one of the most respected professionals in the world of arts management. Together with business partner Edna Landau, he founded Hamlen/Landau Management in 1979. Five years later, the company was acquired by the International Management Group, becoming IMG Artists, where Charles served as co-director from 1984 to 1992, overseeing the careers of artists, including violinists Joshua Bell, Leila Josefowicz, and Itzhak Perlman; the Emerson String Quartet; and pianists Stephen Hough, Evgeny Kissin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and André Watts.
In 1993 Charles left IMG Artists to found Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS. After 16 years at the helm of Classical Action, he returned to IMG Artists, where he served as chairman until 2012. He is currently Artistic Advisor to New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s and has served as Artistic Advisor to Tippet Rise since the autumn of 2016.
His numerous honors include the 1998 Jerry Willis Award from the Western Arts Alliance, the
2000 Eos Orchestra’s Michael Palm Award, the International Society for the Performing Arts’ 2004 Angel Award, and the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Charles was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2004.