Nancy Shear Arts Services is unique in its strong background in the performing arts in both the artistic and business areas, its high credibility and solid reputation, its attention to detail and quality, and its flexible and creative approach to all facets of its work. The office comprises individuals who have multi-faceted skills: expertise in the music business; experience and skill in media relations; multi-lingual communication; and true musicianship with years of formal training. The energy, imagination and good spirits of the agency make it an enjoyable as well as effective office with which to work.


Nancy  ShearNancy Shear, President
Nancy Shear's background includes 20 years as an orchestra librarian (for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Institute, Leopold Stokowski, International Festival of Youth Orchestras, and various music publishing and record companies), as well as more than two decades in public relations. She is also on "the other side" of the media as writer and broadcaster. Her strong and diverse background allows her to provide unique and valuable services as consultant and adviser.

In addition to her business activities, Ms. Shear has presented lectures for organizations such as the New York Philharmonic (for 11 years), Caramoor Festival, New Jersey Symphony and others, and as broadcaster on public and commercial radio (as host, writer and producer of interview programs and specials, and as host/writer of the New Jersey Symphony's broadcasts on WNYC-FM which were nationally syndicated on the American Public Radio Network, and as interim host of the New York Philharmonic live national broadcasts; she is currently host of the broadcasts of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra).

She is also a frequently-published writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Musical America, Ovation, Lincoln Center Stagebill, the New York Times and Symphony Magazine. She has written entries on musical subjects for the 1992 Encyclopedia of New York co-published by Yale University Press and the New-York Historical Society, and has written a book on the cultural phenomenon of The Three Tenors (published by Metro Books in 1998). She was commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra to write a short book, The Philadelphia Orchestra Story, which was distributed nationally for a period of five years.

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