UMG announces promotions across global classics and jazz division

Universal Music Group (UMG) has announced a series of promotions across its global classics and jazz (GCJ) division executive management team.

Dickon Stainer, president and CEO of the GCJ division added: ‘These changes mark the latest step in our mission to deliver best-in-class service for our incredible artists, and for these genres of music which hold global cultural significance and are of great importance to us at UMG.’

Liz Chew started her a new role as senior director of global priorities – marketing last week. Previously UMG’s director of international marketing, Chew joined UMG in 2011 from EMI Classics. She will lead a team in both London and Berlin, working with both high-profile and emerging artists.

After five years at Decca and two years leading PR for the GCJ division, Rachel Tregenza’s role will expand as she becomes UMG’s senior director of global priorities – communications and artist strategy. George Irwin joined GCJ as an intern in 2018 and has now been appointed the newly-created role of audience and analytics manager.

Executive vice president of the GCJ division, Sam Jackson, said, ‘This exceptional team will [be] focused on delivering our artists’ diverse creative ambitions, they will work together with our labels and partners, offering their global expertise and unrivalled insight.’

The GCJ division concentrates on classical and jazz music throughout UMG. As part of the world’s largest classical and jazz recorded music business, the division works with the company’s many labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Blue Note.

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