Ronald A. Wilford (November 4, 1927, in Salt Lake City – June 13, 2015, in New York City)[1] was an American music manager who has been described as “classical music's biggest power broker”.[2] He spent 50 years at Columbia Artists Management, Inc. (CAMI), his clients included conductors James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Rostropovich, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, pianists Maurizio Pollini and Vladimir Horowitz as well as vocalists Kathleen Battle and Marilyn Horne, among many others.[2]