• June 22, 2021

    Cellist Thomas Mesa and PARMA Launch Equitable Recording Project With Sphinx MPower Grant

    PARMA Recordings, long time collaborator cellist Thomas Mesa, and pianist Michelle Cann, were recently awarded a major Sphinx MPower grant to begin a multi-pronged project through a Sphinx Call [...]

  • June 15, 2021

    Piazzolla Music Competition: Playing For Change Donation & Winners Announced

    PARMA Recordings, on behalf of the Piazzolla Music Competition and Fundación Astor Piazzolla, is pleased to announce a donation of $10,000 to benefit the Playing For Change Foundation, realizing [...]

  • June 14, 2021

    Krešimir “Krešo” Seletković Wins Porin Music Award

    Lead Producer of the Zagreb Festival Orchestra and frequent PARMA collaborator Krešimir "Krešo" Seletković was awarded Best Production of a Classical Music Album at this week’s 28th annual Porin [...]

  • June 3, 2021

    Miran Vaupotić Named Chief Conductor of the South Czech Philharmonic

    Conductor and PARMA Recordings Project Director Miran Vaupotić has been appointed to the position of Chief Conductor of the South Czech Philharmonic.Acclaimed as “dynamic and knowledgeable” by the Buenos Aires [...]

  • May 26, 2021

    PARMA Announces Call For Live Streams Lineup

    Earlier this year PARMA Recordings held a Call For Live Streams - a no-cost opportunity for artists to submit a live stream for airing on the PARMA Live Stage. [...]

  • May 6, 2021

    2021 SCI National Conference

    The Society Of Composers, Inc. (SCI), the composer consortium dedicated to the promotion, performance and understanding of new and contemporary music, will be hosting their 2021 Online National Conference this [...]

  • May 4, 2021

    Evagelia Siarvali Selected for Violin Performance by Pal Žiga

    Pal Žiga, Concertmaster of the Subotica Philharmonic PARMA is pleased to announce the winner of our January Call for Scores. With thoughtful input from the soloist, Concertmaster of the [...]

  • April 8, 2021

    “And you cashed the check? Well, you’re screwed!”

    This is the (abbreviated!) story of how I became the CEO of PARMA Recordings, a company representing the work of thousands of artists on our labels, with a GRAMMY-winning staff of dozens across the globe, a company which since 2008 has paid and employed literally thousands of musicians for recording projects, which has done pro bono and philanthropic work to create new opportunities not just for our own artists but for the market as a whole – all with the goal of making great music in a responsible way.

  • April 1, 2021

    Artist Experience: Stuart Weber

    Stuart Weber, guitar virtuoso and a true “Western original” (The Denver Post), already had a passion-filled, prolific career behind him when he came to PARMA. The road ahead for the [...]

  • March 29, 2021

    We Remember: Pianist Bunny Beck

    Few musicians have broken into the industry and established a prestigious reputation after multiple careers in non-music related professions. In Bunny Beck’s case, this transition happened by accident. “I never [...]