What is CAG?

Concert Artists Guild empowers musicians and launches careers that are sustainable, unique, and relevant. Through mentorship and performance opportunities, we identify and develop young artists who will make an impact in the world through music.

CAG enables artists to manifest a new definition of a professional musician: resilient citizen performers who engage with, respond to, and impact the world around them through music and service, galvanizing the fabric of society through the power of culture.

How We Help Our Artists

• Booking domestic and international performances

• Participation in CAG’s Citizen Musician Training

  • Career Bootcamp

  • Community Impact Project Incubator in collaboration with Global Leaders Institute

• Providing educational and community engagement opportunities

• Mentorship from CAG staff and alumni

• Networking opportunities with the CAG roster

• Commissioning opportunities of new composers

• Exposure to top industry leaders and tastemakers

• Fiscal sponsorship for project development

Our Impact

Since 1951, CAG has helped more than 500 young musicians launch careers. Winners of CAG’s annual competition receive comprehensive management support, New York performances, concert bookings and professional career development and coaching.

Notable CAG alumni artists include GRAMMY-winning artists such as Imani Winds, Jennifer Koh, Joseph Lin (Juilliard Quartet), Eugene Drucker (Emerson Quartet); ensembles Pacifica Quartet, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Eighth Blackbird; MacArthur fellow Claire Chase; pianists Barry Douglas and Michael Brown; clarinetists David Shifrin and David Krakauer; flutist Marina Piccinini; violinist Geneva Lewis; and groundbreaking ensembles such as the Brasil Guitar Duo, PUBLIQuartet, and Aizuri Quartet.

Watch the video below to learn more about what we do!