Charlotte Lee is the president and founder of Primo Artists, one of the world’s leading international artist management agencies. Based in New York, Primo Artists has a selective management roster comprising violinists Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti and Randall Goosby; pianists Beatrice Rana and Seong-Jin Cho; conductors Cristian Măcelaru, James Gaffigan, Christian Reif and Gemma New; and composers Valerie Coleman and Wynton Marsalis.
She grew up playing the violin as concertmaster of the New Jersey Youth Symphony before starting her career in the music business 25 years ago at Universal Classics. Charlotte Lee joined IMG Artists in 1998 and worked there for 17 years where she was director of Orchestral Booking and a senior vice-president managing artists such as Itzhak Perlman and Nicola Benedetti.
In 2015, she founded Primo Artists which has distinguished itself as one of the most modern agencies in the field and the only agency that offers artist management, social media management and public relations to artists and institutions around the world. Beyond its distinguished artist management roster, Primo Artists handles PR representation for Lincoln Center, Sphinx Organization, American Composers Orchestra and many composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and ensembles.
An active advocate, Charlotte Lee is also the founder and leader of the Performing Arts Managers and Agents Coalition and was a principal in leading the US industry-wide lobbying effort that led to the enactment of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants program, providing 16.5 billion dollars in relief, the largest public rescue of the arts and entertainment industry in the US history.
She received the 2022 Western Arts Alliance Service Award in recognition of her advocacy, contributions and leadership on the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant, and Musical America twice named her a Top 30 Professional of the Year (2015, 2021).
