Bernhardt attended law school in Hamburg, moved to the U.S. and started the Kork Agency, a talent company out of San Francisco. In 2008 his company was sold to the Agency Group, which was itself sold to UTA in 2015.

You can go back in time and see any concert. Who would you see and when?

Frédéric Chopin, 1848, Edinburgh, Scotland.

You’re made czar of the concert industry. What’s the first thing you’d change?

Get rid of ticketing fees.