Artist manager David Sigall has died

Artist manager David Sigall died on May 29th after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Karen Taylor and sister Vera. Director of Ingpen & Williams International Artists' Management from 1972 until his retirement in 2016, Sigall also served as president of the International Artist Managers Association.

Born in 1943, Sigall attended The City of London School. In the late sixties he began work with Lina Lalandi of the English Bach Festival and in 1972 was invited by manager Howard Hartog to join him at Ingpen & Williams. Sigall remained a director of the company for over four decades until his retirement in 2016.

When Groves Artists took on the mantle of Ingpen & Williams Limited after its launch in September 2016, Jonathan Groves had been a director of Ingpen & Williams Limited for 40 years alongside Sigall and became managing director of the new company. Groves said: ‘I count myself to have been very lucky to have had [Sigall] at my side throughout most of my working life. His support was unfailing and, remarkably, we always saw eye to eye on any important decisions that needed to be made’.

Sigall served as chairman of the British Association of Concert Agents in the 80s which was internationalised in 1996 to form the International Artist Managers Association (IAMA). Sigall was a long-serving board member of the IAMA before becoming honorary president in 2017. He also served as a governor of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance before becoming an honorary fellow of the institution.

Sigall has nurtured the development of a broad range of artists and organisations throughout his career. Artists he has worked with include baritone Sherill Milnes, pianists Alfred Brendel and Joanna MacGregor and conductors Michael Gielen, Pierre Boulez, Markus Stenz, Sir Georg Solti and Douglas Boyd, director Barrie Kosky and sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Jessye Norman, Carolyn Sampson and Susan Chilcott whom he married in 2000. He also represented the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on visits to the UK and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.