About Us

Victoria Rowsell Artist Management was founded in 2005. The company is dedicated to managing and developing the careers of classical musicians. We are very selective about our artists, only representing those with whom we feel a particular personal and artistic affinity. We believe this is the best way to support music and our clients with the greatest conviction and integrity.

Aude-Marie Auphan – Managing Director

Aude-Marie Auphan joined Victoria Rowsell Artist Management in March 2014. She previously worked as Operations Manager for Tarisio, Auction House of Fine String Instruments, as well as running her own business.A professionally trained cellist, Aude-Marie studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and held the post of Principal Cello with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra until 2008. A native of France educated in the United Kingdom, Aude Marie is fluent in French, English and Greek.

Contact for: Philippe Bach, Joseph Swensen, Louis Lortie, Hugo Ticciati, Simon Trpčeski, Ildikó Szabó, Itamar Zorman

Nicolas Papageorgiou – Director, Artist Management

Nicolas Papageorgiou joined Victoria Rowsell Artist Management in July 2014, originally as Administrator, becoming Associate Artist Manager in April 2015 and Artist Manager in September 2016. A former orchestral musician, he spent fifteen years as principal timpanist of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra following studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam. He has always been a passionate advocate for musicians’ rights and welfare; he was president of the Musicians’ Guild of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra between 2005 and 2011, and has a Masters degree in European Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Keele University. He is fluent in English, Greek and French

Contact for: Jan Söderblom, Dimitris Botinis, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Geneva Lewis, Roman Rabinovich, Llŷr Williams, Jonathan Swensen

Phaedra Mylona – Assistant (trainee)

Phaedra Mylona joined Victoria Rowsell Artist Management in August 2024. Originally from Cyprus, she trained as a pianist with a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, earning her Bachelors degree in performance. She continued her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as a recipient of a Weingarten Scholarship in 2022, and at present she is completing her MA in Culture, Policy and Management at City University, London. Phaedra is fluent in English and Greek

Marie-Anne Tilley – Finance & Administrative Officer

Marie-Anne Tilley joined Victoria Rowsell Artist Management in August 2015. After graduating with a Modern Languages degree, Marie-Anne worked for 15 years in the Finance Department of a large multi-national company, using her French, until she became a full-time parent. She has worked as a book-keeper for the last 10 years, mainly to fit around her children. Now that her boys are all grown up, she fills her time with singing. She is a keen chorister, and has sung with various choirs in many famous London venues over the years. Her other main interest is travelling to Europe for short breaks with her friends. As well as speaking French fluently, Marie-Anne has a working understanding of Spanish.

Our Founder – Victoria Rowsell

Victoria Rowsell began her career in the music industry in 1977, joining Van Walsum Management in its formative years and helping develop the company into one of the leading London music agencies. For 10 years she was deputy managing director and in that time, she managed the careers of some of the foremost artists of our time, amongst them Esa Pekka Salonen, Paavo Berglund, Kent Nagano, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Vernon Handley and Mitsuko Uchida. In 2005 she left to form Victoria Rowsell Artist Management.

Before joining VWM Victoria was PA to the editors of the Architect’s Journal, and the New Statesman at a time when the New Statesman was the crucible of what has emerged as one of the greatest generations of writers and political commentators.

Victoria’s background informed her values, which she shared throughout her eighteen years at the head of Victoria Rowsell Artist Management, and in particular on the identification, nurturing and development of individual artistic voices who continue to make the broadest contribution to the artistic and cultural life around the world. Her values are reflected in the continued achievements of several generations of artists with whom she worked for over 45 years