Andrew Ousley
Founder & President, Unison Media
Andrew Ousley is an entrepreneur and impresario committed to creating a better story around Classical Music.
Ousley is the founder and president of Unison Media, one of the leading PR & Marketing agencies for Classical Music and the performing arts, working with clients like Gustavo Dudamel, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Bell, Hélène Grimaud, The Emerson Quartet, Warner Classics, J'Nai Bridges, Conrad Tao, PROTOTYPE Festival, and more. Unison has been awarded an American Prize for Marketing, was honored as the #1 U.S. agency in Norman Lebrecht's "Least Worst Classical PRs".
As the founder and Artistic Director of Death of Classical, Ousley curates and creative directs a series of classical music and opera concerts in a Crypt, Catacomb, and Cemetery around NYC, and has presented leading artists and ensembles like the New York Philharmonic, Lawrence Brownlee, Gil Shaham, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Avi Avita, Alexandre Tharaud, Simone Dinnerstein, and many more. DoC performances have been selected to The New York Times Top Performances of the Year, WQXR's Best Concerts of the Year, and received the prestigious Classical:Next "Innovation" Award. Vogue Magazine's culture editor summarized DoC best, calling it “one of the most riveting and unusual chamber music performances of my lifetime.”
A fierce advocate for education and helping young musicians succeed through the crucial early stages of their career, Andrew has given seminars and talks with The Juilliard School, Young Concert Artists, Concert Artists Guild, Frost School of Music, Merola Opera Program, The New School, Bard College, Opera America, and more.
Andrew has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, New York 1 News, Fox5, Creator Magazine, and more. He lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée and their glorious cat Gizmo. In his non-existent spare time, he also runs Burger Club, and his photographs have been published in the Associated Press, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer and more.