artist management
promotion and publicity
booking and touring
Lian
works with select artists on intensive career development, helping to get their
product into the right hands to further their artistic aspirations. She is
an idea person, who provides professional advice, representation and encouragement
to artists that she personally believes in.
For these artists she also handles promotion and publicity, using her extensive industry contacts at many major music magazines the world over. Lian has gotten coverage of artists she has worked with in most major music magazines the world over, including DownBeat, Jazz Times, JazzIz, Billboard, Interview, Vibe, Pulse!, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Modern Drummer, allaboutjazz.com, Keyboard, Audio, College Music Journal, Guitar One, and Audio Files in the US; Jazz Life, Guitar, Musee, Record Collectors, Jazz Times (Japan); Rytmi, Soundi (Finland); Muziq, Jazz Man, So What, Octopus, Vibrations (France); Gitarre&Bass, Jazzthetik, Jazz Thing (Germany); Chittare, Axe, Audio Review (Italy); Latin Pulse!, Rolling Stone Latin America (Latin America) Oor (Netherlands); Stage (Belgium) and Echoes, Jazz Wise, Top, Guitarist, Rhythm, "Q" Magazine (England).
Lian also books and tour manages for her artists. In the past five years, she has booked, produced and tour managed seven extensive European and Latin American tours, traveling to the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Mexico.