BIOGRAPHY

Lydia Liebman is a New York City-based music industry professional with experience as a publicist, radio host, promoter, journalist and musician. She is the founder and president of Lydia Liebman Promotions, a leading PR agency based in NYC, with additional operations in London. 

While she grew up with jazz, she got her professional start while a student at Emerson College and Berklee College of Music on radio station WECB. There, she founded a successful radio program, Reeds & Deeds II, that aired for four years and featured interviews with the likes of Pat Metheny, Gregory Porter, Kurt Elling, and Jason Moran, among many others. She apprenticed with both Mark Ruffin and Simon Rentner at Sirius XM’s Real Jazz and WBGO’s The Checkout respectively. In 2016, Liebman guest hosted several episodes of the Checkout in support of that years’ National Endowment for the Arts ceremony and she interviewed Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Gary Burton and Wendy Oxenhorn. Her experience in radio greatly informs her approach to public relations and promotion.

Liebman began LLP in her dorm room at Emerson College in Boston. Originally geared toward up and coming jazz musicians in the area, Liebman started by promoting local shows at Scullers Jazz Club, Berklee’s Café 939 and Wally’s Jazz Café. Her first account was Danilo Perez’s Berklee Global Jazz Institute. Since then, LLP has grown to become one of the most active and sough after PR firms in jazz today. LLP’s impressive roster includes artists from all spectrums of jazz including Lakecia Benjamin, Thana Alexa, Ralph Peterson, Catherine Russell, Brandee Younger, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Brian Lynch, Matt Ulery, Andy Milne, and many more. While the majority of her roster is proudly independent artists, she has worked with a plethora of labels including Woolgathering, Dot Time, Resonance, ears&eyes, Whirlwind Recordings, Greenleaf, ESP-Disk’, Origin, Artist Share, Justin Time, Outside in Music, Rainy Days, Revive Music, Delmark, Truth Revolution, and more. She has promoted concerts at storied venues like Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center and Berklee Performance Center, along with most major jazz clubs in the United States.

For 8 years, Liebman was a reporter and senior assistant editor for Education Update, a NY-based education trade publication. Liebman's byline appears on over 100 articles, some of which were interview features with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Ann and Andrew Tisch, Patrick Kennedy, and various university presidents, scientific leaders and award-winning leaders in education. 

Liebman regularly lectures about PR and other music industry-related topics and is often invited to join panel discussions and seminars. She has presented at several higher ed institutions including The Royal Academy of Music in London and Berklee College of Music. In 2019, she was invited to participate at the Jazz Across Borders conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. 

She is a member of The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ (NARAS), an associate member of the Jazz Journalists Association and has served on the Board of Directors of JazzBoston.