Fraudster’s wife gets new agent

Fraudster’s wife gets new agent

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

February 16, 2025

The Russian cellist Nina Kotova lost her grip at IMG Artists when its co-woner, her husband Barrett Wissman, was ousted by his Russian partner Alexander Shustorovich.

No-one grieved for Wissman, a self-confessed fraudster. But Kotova, cut off from her agency, had to seek new representation. She had landed with the off-piste Jack Price Attractions, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Price, like her husband, is a former pianist who reimagined himself as an ‘agent’.

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