Zach Katz says he was once given a choice by his father: either become a lawyer, or a doctor. So the journey that’s seen him travel to president, US repertoire and marketing, at the burgeoning BMG stable has been an eventful one.

That journey began in Moscow, where Katz was born. At the age of seven, when the Soviet Union regime opened a door for Jewish families to leave the country, his parents decided to take their chance. Rather than ...