Eric Oberstein Launches Artist Management & Producing Company

Eric Oberstein, an internationally respected and trusted arts leader, 2x GRAMMY and 2x Latin GRAMMY-winning producer, curator, and educator, announced today the launch of his new company, Eric Oberstein Productions (EOP). EOP is an NYC-based artist management and producing company, serving as a collaborator and guide to adventurous, culture-changing artists, as well as an arts management consultancy, curating transformative programming and advising cultural organizations on strategy.

With a long track record of working with prominent artists and arts organizations, Oberstein — a New York-born and raised saxophonist and drummer of Cuban American heritage — has developed a career building environments that help artists and organizations achieve their goals. EOP serves as a professional home for this work, offering the full range of Oberstein’s expertise and experience.

EOP offers four types of services:

• Music Producing
• Artist Management
• Consulting for Arts Organizations: Curation + Strategy
• Teaching: Arts Management & Entrepreneurship, Creative Producing

With the launch of his company, Oberstein also announced an inaugural roster of visionary artists as management clients, including:

Dafnis Prieto, GRAMMY-winning Bandleader, Drummer, Composer, Educator & MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow (Cuba/USA)
Michela Marino Lerman, Tap Dance Artist, Performer, Choreographer, Bandleader of LOVE MOVEMENT & Educator (USA)
Kalí Rodríguez-Peña, Latin GRAMMY-nominated Bandleader, Trumpeter, Composer & Educator (Cuba/USA)

Oberstein will grow his management roster in the coming months.

Oberstein writes:

“It has been a dream of mine for many years to serve culture-changing artists and organizations with my own company. I have been fortunate to work in a variety of capacities across the arts fields, working with some of the leading creative minds of our time. I am excited to use this experience to advise artists and organizations on strategy and serve as a collaborator to help them realize their grandest projects and ambitions.”

In addition to long creative associations with artists including Dafnis Prieto and Arturo O’Farrill, Oberstein is a veteran arts and cultural executive with 15 years of experience managing arts organizations in the non-profit and higher education spheres, including Harlem Stage, Duke Performances at Duke University, and the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. He has also served as a curator of world-class performing arts programming, a creative producer with deep experience developing new commissions and performing arts projects with forward-thinking artists, and an educator helping young people imagine and pursue meaningful professional lives in the arts, having taught Arts Management for three years at Duke University. In the 2025/2026 academic year, Oberstein will teach courses in Performing Arts Management & Entrepreneurship at Teachers College, Columbia University and George Mason University.