JAMES C. HARWOOD, President
HARWOOD MANAGEMENT GROUP INC.


Jim Harwood is President and CEO of HARWOOD MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. , a diversified ‘Arts Management’ firm encompassing multiple aspects of the performing arts industry.  The primary focus of the company is building and managing the careers of a talented roster of artists:  some forty professional singers, ten conductors, and three stage directors.  Our major commitment to the artists on our rosters comes in the form of career guidance, helping our artists find the best avenue to self-expression and artistic fulfillment.  He represents this roster of artists to arts organizations & producers -- making casting suggestions, submitting appropriate candidates for auditions, arranging auditions, negotiating contracts, and servicing contracts by co-ordinating engagement schedules, housing, transportation, etc.  In addition his management company does PR for these artists, including a well established website - www.harwood-management.com - which includes headshots and some sound-bites, developing mailing lists for individual artists and for the company, writing and distributing individual Press Releases, and a quarterly Artists Newletter which is emailed to all the companies (opera, orchestra) in the USA, Canada and worldwide.  Other areas of endeavour include contracting musicians, private career development consultations, educational endeavours, clinics, seminars, work-shops and Arts Festivals.  The rapid growth of Harwood Management can be attributed to innovative techniques, creative marketing and the ability to attract talented artists.

In addition, his company has a separate division HIRSCH ENTERTAINMENT, INC. which works with approximately 100 Broadway/cross-over artists.  In a similar fashion we recommend artists for auditions for Broadway Shows, negotiate contracts and concentrate on developing their careers with an emphasis on steady employment.  At present we have about several singers working on Broadway.

As a musician Jim has performed as a member of the Hamilton Canada and Springfield Mass. Orchestras.  He has appeared throughout the US with the Boston Pops and Symphony Orchestra, toured with Chuck Mangione, played with Temptations and Supremes, did pit work on Broadway, played chamber music in NYC including with Jerome Lowenthal and many others.  He also had the Jim Harwood Big Band in NYC and surrounding areas for 12 years. He founded the Westchester Youth Jazz Band where he discovered Vanessa Williams.  He also founded the Canadian Brass.

Jim Harwood graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music, as well as a Degree in Music Education, and he holds a a Master’s Degree in woodwind performance from the New England Conservatory (Boston).  In addition, he has also done Doctoral work at Boston University and Columbia University.






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