International Artist Managers Association Award Names 2025 Winners

Andrew Green of Classical Music Magazine and Stephanie Challener, the owner of Musical America, have both won the award

The only worldwide association for classical music artist management, the International Artist Managers’ Association (IAMA), has awarded its IAMA Award to Andrew Green and Stephanie Challener at its 34th conference in London. 

For over four decades, Green has written and broadcasted about all aspects of the music industry and artist management, and shares his views through his own monthly column in Classical Music magazine. 

Prior to this, he was an artist manager at the Ibbs & Tillett office in London, where his client list included Mitsuko Uchida, Shura Cherkassky, and the Alban Berg Quartet. Green has since presented and produced around 300 music programs for BBC networks, including presenting In Tune and BBC Proms broadcasts on Radio 3, and many documentaries for Radio 4. 

As a journalist, he has written for many UK newspapers and musical journals, including Classical Music, Early Music Today, and BBC Music. 

Fellow IAMA award winner Stephanie Challener is the publisher of Musical America, where she first joined in 1993 as an advertising assistant. There, she moved to become a sales representative in 1995, then an associate publisher in 1997, and later a publisher in December 2001.

Before working at Musical America, she earned a degree in International Relations from Ohio’s College of Wooster and completed a Master of Music degree in Accompanying and Coaching from Westminster Choir College in Princeton. 

Other award winners at the 2025 conference included artist manager Cornelia Schmid, who received IAMA’s Honorary Life Membership. The 2026 IAMA conference will be held in Tallinn, Estonia. 

“Yes, there’s been the pleasure of working with all those engaging and dedicated editors at the magazine, but I wouldn’t be still wanting to write about artist management if it wasn’t for you good people,” Green said at the award presentation. “Your position as pivotal, essential, figures in the classical music ecosystem should be better understood and appreciated. This conference has always embodied and demonstrated this pivotal role. And I hope in some small way I and the magazine have helped advance and enhance that perception.”