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, Gemma New and Christian Reif; and composers Wynton Marsalis, Valerie Coleman and Joel Thompson.
Charlotte grew up playing the violin as Concertmaster of the New Jersey Youth Symphony before starting her career in the music business over 25 years ago at Universal Classics. She 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, Charlotte founded Primo Artists which has established 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 is also the founder and leader of the Performing Arts Managers and Agents Coalition and was a principal in leading the U.S. industry-wide lobbying effort that led to the enactment of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants program, providing $16.5 Billion in relief, the largest public rescue of the arts and entertainment industry in U.S. history.
Charlotte received the 2022 Western Arts Alliance Service Award in recognition of her advocacy, contributions and leadership on the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant. Musical America twice named Charlotte a “Top 30 Professional of the Year”: In the 2015 Inaugural Edition recognizing influencers in the classical music business and in the 2021 Edition applauding heroes of the industry who saved the day during the pandemic.