MTM Artists is a full service artist management agency. “MTM” stands for “Mozart To Miles”, and this reflects our interest in furthering the careers of outstanding artists in both the Classical and Jazz fields. Our artists are chosen for their abilities not only as masters of their craft, but as eloquent communicators in the effort to make their performances “come alive” for the audience. And in doing this they are true ambassadors for the musical arts, assuring a viable future for these great art forms for generations to come.

There was a time when both Classical and Jazz music was the “pop music” of an era, suggesting the universality of these seemingly different genres in the scheme of human development. While the differences are not to be ignored, and indeed appreciated, it is this universality that we’d like to emphasize, and we hope that in some measure we can influence a change in today’s prevailing perceptions and practices, which have tended to compartmentalize them to an extreme.

Paul Ostermayer, Managing Director, has had a colorful and eclectic career as a woodwind player, playing across genre lines in varied situations across the globe. He has played jazz in Romania (University of Texas Jazz Ensemble) and in Central and South America (Dick Goodwin Jazz Quintet), in Los Angeles (Blood, Sweat and Tears, Passenger) and in New York City (Robben Ford, Paul Ostermayer Quintet). He has played pop music in Africa (Christopher Cross) and in Europe and Canada (Leonard Cohen and Jennifer Warnes), also in blues clubs across the U.S. (Delbert McClinton). He has played contemporary dance music from Singapore to Barbados (Vali Entertainment), and contemporary classical music in the Big Apple (NY Philharmonic with Kurt Masur, Brooklyn Philharmonic with Lukas Foss, NYC Ballet Orchestra with Michael Tilson Thomas, American Saxophone Quartet). And he has shared the stage with such legends in entertainment as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Danny Thomas, Rodney Dangerfield, Bette Midler, Mary Martin, Patti Page, Rich Little, Joel Grey, The Temptations, Lou Rawls, Ben Vereen, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, Savion Glover, Nancy Wilson, Rita Moreno, Marilyn McCoo, and Queen Latifah.

Paul received a Bachelors Degree in Music Theory and Composition and a Masters Degree in Saxophone Performance at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1991 he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study with Miles Davis’ saxophonist David Liebman, as well as studying privately in NYC with saxophonists Bob Mintzer, Joe Lovano, Bob Berg, and Al Regni. He studied flute with NY Philharmonic flutist Keith Underwood and clarinet with David Stanton.

His compositions and performances have been featured on both National Public Radio’s Jazz Alive and PBS’ Austin City Limits. Other TV work includes The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Solid Gold, and The Phil Dohahue Show; a CBC documentary on Leonard Cohen, The Song of Leonard Cohen, Tap USA on French TV, Rock Pop on German TV, and Later with Jules Holland on British TV.

Album credits include Leonard Cohen’s Recent Songs, Cohen Live, and Field Commander Cohen, Jennifer Warnes’ Famous Blue Raincoat, Carole King’s City Streets, Asleep at the Wheel’s Framed, Mitch Watkins’ Underneath It All, Craig Peyton’s Songs from Home, George Mitchell’s Aftermath, Suzi Stern’s Seven Stars and Inside Stories, and The Rick Wald Big Band’s Castaneda’s Dream.