About WAM

MARTHA WADE founded Wade Artist Management in 1999 to personally represent top-level classical and jazz artists, combining her wide experience as a professional musician and consultant to New York-based artist managements. Wade Artist Management is committed to nurturing artists’ careers and building strong relationships with arts organizations throughout the United States. 

Artists under Martha Wade's auspices have performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and Washington National Opera, in addition to opera companies and venues throughout the country including Anchorage Opera, Austin Opera, Bard Festival, Beth Morrison Projects (BMP), Boheme Opera NJ, Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Cedar Rapids Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Cleveland Opera, Dallas Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, First Coast Opera, Florentine Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Kyrenia Opera, the little OPERA theatre of NY (LOTNY), Long Beach Opera, Mobile Opera, Odyssey Opera, Opera Company of Middlebury, Opera Hong Kong, Opera Idaho, Opera Mississippi, Opera Naples, Opera Roanoke, Opera Tampa, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Palm Beach Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Salt Marsh Opera, Sarasota Opera, Syracuse Opera, Teatro Grattacielo, Teatro Nuovo, Toledo Opera, Union Avenue Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Utah Opera, Virginia Opera, and Winter Opera St. Louis.

Concert engagements form an essential part of Wade Artist Management’s portfolio. Our artists have performed with orchestras and presenters including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, National Chorale, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Seattle Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY), Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP), and MidAmerica Productions (MAP), and also including Amor Artis, Anchorage Symphony, the Atrium at Lincoln Center, Baltimore Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Frick Pittsburgh museum concert series, Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Greenwich Choral Society, Helena Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and the Westfield Symphony.