Gigi Cohn

“Gigi” Regina Cohn brings equal mastery of two worlds rarely found in one person: deep musical expertise and proven marketing results. With a veritable Swiss Army Knife of marketing and design skills, she comes to DCINY after three years transforming legacy music publishers Carl Fischer, Presser, and BriLee’s approach to marketing to close the gap between business and artists, composers, and performing organizations (including DCINY!).

 

Having walked between musical worlds as a performer, lecturer, social media manager, designer, and marketer, Gigi’s expertise in marketing is equally matched by her credentials as a classical musician. A Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in oboe performance from Stony Brook University, Gigi studied with the English horn soloist of the Metropolitan Opera and the oboist of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. As a TA and solo instructor, she sparked a love of classical music in future concertgoers through her Music 101 classes, and as a freelance oboist, she has performed in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, across the city, and around the world. Before moving to New York, she spent her youth singing in choirs and studying oboe in Seattle, continuing her musical studies in California at Idyllwild Arts Academy, and earning her Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts.

 

Music is still the universal language, but Gigi has consistently observed, studied, and leveraged the same high-impact tools from her lifelong immersion in musical storytelling to connect with audiences on a global scale. She is excited to continue this mission with DCINY, Changing Lives through the Power of Performance!