- Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. - Humberto Gatica
Humberto Gatica is an American record producer, music mixer and audio engineer best known for his life long collaboration with producer, composer, arranger David Foster. Partial list of artists Gatica had worked with includes Al Jarreau, Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Chaka Khan, Cher, Chicago, Destiny’s Child, Eric Benet, Madonna, Elton John, Josh Groban, Kenny G, Kenny Loggins, Kenny Rodgers, Leanne Rimes, Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey, Michael Bublé, Michael Jackson, … - Dwain Esper
Dwain Esper was a director and producer of exploitation films (some of which were written by Esper's wife, Hildegarde Stadie). He is considered to be one of the worst directors of all time, and his films have become cult classics for being so notoriously bad. Some view his work as being unintentionally funny. Esper died in 1982. He and Hildegarde had two children, Dwain, Jr. and Millicent. - Hajime Mizoguchi
Hajime Mizoguchi is a cellist and composer who was born April 23, 1960 in Tokyo, Japan. Mizoguchi started playing piano in 1963, at the age of 3, and the cello in 1971. From 1978 to 1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. While at school, he started playing the cello with Japanese pop-singers and working as a studio musician for radio, TV, films, and albums. - Mark de Gli Antoni
Mark De Gli Antoni (b. San Francisco, California, June 20, 1962), often credited as Horse Tricks, is a New York / San Francisco composer, best known for his work as keyboard and sampler player for the band Soul Coughing from 1992 to 2000. De Gli Antoni has a master's degree in music composition from the Mannes College of Music in New York City. In the early 1990s, De Gli Antoni was a member, along with Eric Qin and Norman Yamada, … - Kip Smedley
I'm an audio engineer & sound designer at a music and sound design house in Venice California (www.machinehead.com). - Gary Honess
Gary Honess Freelance Recording Engineer - Glynna Grimala
- Frank Garfi
After spending his teen years immersed in the Rock & Roll 1970s, Frank Garfi was given the opportunity to try his hand at the challenging world of music recording where he has flourished for the last 25 years. Starting as a live sound engineer in New York's top music venues (Max's Kansas City, C.B.G.B.'s, Great Gildersleeves, Zappa's, Rock Palace, 2001 Space Odyssey) he soon segued into a career as a much sought after studio engineer. In the early days of compact discs, Garfi worked in... - Elliot Scheiner
Has a son, with wife, Diana Canova. Son-in-law of Judy Canova. - Tor Kingdon
- Neil Cedar
- Ed Vernds
Bernds was born in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois. While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio clique and obtained amateur licenses. In the early '20s there was considerable prestige for an amateur operator (a "ham") to have commercial radio licenses, and Bernds was in a good position to get into broadcasting when he graduated in 1923, a year when radio stations began popping up all over Chicago. He found employment--at age 20--as chief... - Gareth Cousins
Gareth Cousins composes and produces music for film and television, and for rock and pop artists. From 1986 to 1993, Gareth was House Engineer at London's Abbey Road Studios. Since 1993, Gareth has worked as a freelance Producer, EngHis film credits include the BAFTA and Brit award-winning Notting Hill (1999), Thirteen Days (2000), From Hell (2001), _Dark City_, Desperate Measures (1998), Lawn Dogs (1997), as co-composer on Titanic Town (1998), and Arktos: The Internal Journey of Mike... - Nick Woolage
- Ron Garrard
- Paul Dugre
- Stephen Fitzmaurice
Stephen Fitzmaurice of Amherst, NY, reports that his golf game actually got a little better this year. But it doesn't sound as if he's planning to retire soon. Stephen was recently promoted to COO at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo, and was named chairman of the Waterfront Action Group at the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. Aside from the Bills' record and the lack of a hockey season, Stephen says things are good in Western New York. - Kevin Globerman
- John P Livadary
Earned his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, in 1923. - Lance Vardis
- Justin Brinsfield
- Ian Rodness
- Tim O'Heir
Tim is currently producing/engineering/mixing THE EXPLOSION for Virgin Records. Other recent productions include THE STARTING LINE (Geffen), SAY ANYTHING (J), STELLASTARR (RCA), ALL AMERICAN REJECTS (Dreamworks) and HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH ST (Hybrid). A veteran of Boston's college rock scene, Tim made his name working with artists such as SEBADOH, FOLK IMPLOSION, DINOSAUR JR, SAMIAM, BELLY, BUFFALO TOM and many, many others. - Peter Elia
Pete Elia graduated cum laude from Loyola Marymount University in 1991 where he studied music, recording, and film production. He soon after started professionally as a scoring assistant and then scoring mixer, first at Evergreen Studios (1992) and then at Westwind Media studios - where he has been since 1995 working in all facets of sound post production for television and film. This includes music recording and mixing (records and scoring), ADR and voice cast recording (film, t.v., and... - Martin Astle
Martin Astle A Sound engineer of exceptional quality. Highly experienced in all recording areas from Feature film sound tracks to Classical, from Video to DVD. His company AT Audio specializes in Classical location recordings. - Glen Glenn Sound
Founder of Glen Glenn Sound Systems which has been used for sound in over 20,000 motion pictures to date. - Douglas Shearer
Douglas Shearer came to MGM to visit his sister, Norma Shearer, and was hired as an assistant in the camera department. When MGM decided to make sound pictures, Douglas was appointed head of the sound department. In 1928, Douglas took the silent 'White Shadows in the South Seas' to a New Jersey recording studio where he added sound effects and music. As was common in the early days, the music and sound effects were recorded, but not the dialogue. In 1929, Douglas came up with the idea of... - Danni Hunt
Sister of Lainie Bushey. - Elmer Raguse
Began his career in films as head of the sound department at Hal Roach Studios. Raguse initially worked as the on-set sound recordist but by 1932 delegated other sound mixers to this task, while Raguse supervised the final mix of the soundtrack. At that time, it was virtually a one-man job, whereas today there are dozens of technicians involved in post-production sound mix. At a smaller studio like Hal Roach Studios, the film editor also cut together the sound and music tracks for the... - Clem A Portman
Father of Richard Portman. - Earl Sr
Father of Earl Crain Jr.. - Alfred Wilfred Watkins
He began his career working with producer/director Alexander Korda's London Films based at Denham Studios. He became director/supervisor of the Denham Studio sound department after M-G-M took over the studio in the late 1930s. - Marvin Slotnic
Member of the Screen Actors Guild Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sound Executive Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Member of IATSE, Local 695 Member of the Cinema Audio Society - Joseph Kane
Joseph Kane was born in Pontiac, Illinois. After attending the University of Notre Dame, he served in World War I, after which he worked as a radio operator on both private yachts and merchant ships. After this, he moved to Los Angeles, where he got a job with the radio station KNX as an audio engineer. In 1928, he got a job at Warner Bros. studios and served as production sound mixer on several of the early talking films produced there. Kane later worked with Western Electric sound... - Joe Shiff
- Joel Iwataki
- Lambert Day
Lambert E. Day was a "sound mixer" for Columbia Movie Studios for 40 years. - Dori Amarilio
Dori was born into music in Tel Aviv, Israel. The son of a classically-trained violinist and award-winning composer, he was exposed to music from day one. He studied guitar at age 9, played professionally at 14, composed music at 16 and was a music director by age 17. He studied composition at the Berkley-endorsed School of Music Rimon, the Hollywood Musician's Institute and the UCLA film scoring program. Dori landed in Los Angeles after being hired as a musical director for a... - Albert W Protzman
Beginning his career at AT&T-Bell Laboratories, Al Protzman became one of the first radio broadcast engineers at age twenty in 1922, working with the AT&T stations WEAF and WJZ, and with the National Broadcasting Company after its founding in 1926. From 1930 to 1936 Protzman worked in Hollywood as a sound engineer for Fox Film and its successor 20th Century-Fox. Among his screen credits were several "Charlie Chan" films and "The Power and the Glory", starring Spencer Tracy. In 1936 NBC,...
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