Wilfrid Van Wyck
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Wilfrid Van Wyck was a British classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 artists manager through his agency, Wilfrid Van Wyck Ltd
Private company limited by shares
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, based in London. He was the second president of the European Association of Artist Managers.

Van Wyck was the concert agent for cellists Aldo Parisot
Aldo Parisot
Aldo Simoes Parisot is a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher, was formerly a member of the Juilliard School faculty, and currently is serving as a professor of music at the Yale School of Music....

 and János Starker
János Starker
János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...

; pianists Guirne Creith, Janina Fialkowska
Janina Fialkowska
Janina Fialkowska, OC is a Canadian-American classical pianist.- Early life :Fialkowska was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Canadian mother and a Polish father , an engineer and Polish army officer who emigrated to Canada in 1945...

, Artur Rubinstein, and Ken Sasaki; soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 Victoria de los Ángeles
Victoria de los Ángeles
Victoria de los Ángeles was a Spanish Catalan operatic soprano and recitalist whose career began in the early 1940s and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Her obituary in The Times noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half...

; the Fine Arts Quartet
Fine Arts Quartet
The Fine Arts Quartet, a distinguished chamber music ensemble founded in Chicago, USA in 1946 by Leonard Sorkin and George Sopkin, has an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy. It is one of the few to have recorded and toured internationally for over half a...

; the Utah Symphony Orchestra
Utah Symphony Orchestra
-History:The first attempt to create a symphony group in the Utah area occurred in 1892, before Utah was a state. The Salt Lake Symphony was created and presented just one concert before disbanding. In 1902 the Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra was formed, and it remained in existence until 1911...

, then conducted by Maurice Abravanel
Maurice Abravanel
Maurice Abravanel was aSwiss-American Jewish conductor of classical music. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years.-Life:...

; and many other artists and ensembles.

Wilfrid Van Wyck was also a partner in Rimington Van Wyck Ltd, a London record store  and publisher  at 42-43 Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square
Leicester Square
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, London. He retired in 1970. His agency was purchased by artist manager Wilfred Stiff, who later became a director of Ibbs and Tillett
Ibbs and Tillett
Ibbs and Tillett, “one of the legendary names in classical music artist management,” was a London-based classical music artist and concert management agency which flourished from 1906 through 1990 in the United Kingdom....

.

Annabelle Whitestone
Annabelle Whitestone
Annabelle Whitestone, Lady Weidenfeld, is an English former concert manager and promoter for classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, and Conciertos Daniel....

, who worked for Van Wyck in the late 1960s, described him as a "difficult man" who was "very possessive about his artists."
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