Jim Anderson BIO
For nearly 50 years, Jim Anderson has set the standard for acoustic audio engineering
and production, capturing pristine, high-definition stereo and surround sound recordings
that have garnered a dozen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, two Peabodys, and a
pair of Emmy nominations among countless other accolades. Born and raised in
western Pennsylvania, Anderson attended Duquesne University on a musical
performance scholarship, and it was there that his passion for sound and technology
first collided in the music school’s on-campus recording studio. After graduation, he took
work at the local public radio station, WDUQ-FM, and one year later, he made the leap
to NPR in Washington, DC, where he engineered broadcast sessions for everything
from news and documentaries to performances by jazz icons, classical orchestras, folk
singers, and contemporary composers. In 1980, Anderson moved to New York to launch
his career as a freelance engineer and producer, and over the next several decades, he
would go on to record studio albums, live concerts, and film scores across a diverse
array of genres with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, Arturo Sandoval,
Petula Clark, Patricia Barber, John Zorn, and hundreds more. In 2003, he became a
professor at the prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School
of the Arts at NYU. In 2008, he was elected President of the Audio Engineering Society.
Today, Anderson and his wife/production partner Ulrike Schwarz are widely hailed as
industry leaders operating at the cutting edge of the immersive audio field, and their
world-class recordings are regular fixtures at the Grammy Awards and on critics’ annual
Best Of lists.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Internationally recognized recording engineer and producer for acoustic music throughout the world:
(symphonic and chamber music, world music, folk music in studio and in the field, jazz, pop, etc.) in the
recording, radio, television and film industries. Primarily working in stereo, surround & immersive formats.
Recipient of numerous industry awards and nominations including: 13 Grammy and Latin Grammy
Award winning recordings 31Grammy and Latin Grammy Nominated recordings Grammy Winners – Best
Surround Album
“Early Americans” (2018) “Modern Cool” (2013)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album “Skyline” (2022)
Latin Grammy Nomination – Best Engineered Recording – “Lagrimas Negras” (2004) Grammy Nominations
– Best Immersive Album “Picturing the Invisible: focus 1” (2023),
“Clique!” (2022), Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” (2020)
Best Surround Album – “Sixteen Sunsets” (2014)
Spellemannprisen Nominee – Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” (Norway – 2018) 2 Swing Journal Jazz Disc
Awards (Japan)
Broadcasting: 2 George Foster Peabody Awards for NPR programs “Sea Island Sketches” “Taylor Made
Piano”
2 Emmy Nominations for television programs “Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters” “In Performance at
the White House-Andres Segovia”
International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider” Informational Film
Producers of America Gold Cindy “Stock Car Racing”
NPR programs receiving Alfred I duPont awards
Preeminent global client base
World Class Institutions: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Philadelphia
Academy of Music, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway)
Premier Music Labels: Over 1500 recording projects for 112 international labels including: Atlantic
Records; Blue Note Records; Deutsche Grammophon; Sony Classical; Verve Records Radio: National
Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC
Television; PBS Programs – “Great Performances” and “In Performance at the White House”
HBO – Muppets “Dog City” “Wubulous World of Dr. Seuss” “Ghost of Fafner Hall” Recorded first live
immersive recording – Havana, Cuba – Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Solo” (2017) Film: “Chico and Rita” Oscar
Nomination Best Animated Feature Film (2012)
“Judas and the Black Messiah” music score recording, Warner Brothers (2020)
5 Oscar Nominations, winning Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actor (2021)
Professor - Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
2003-2022, Professor Emeritus - Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, 2022
Frequent lecturer and master class guest faculty at leading international institutes of higher education,
including: Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin; Berklee School of Music, Boston; McGill University, Montreal;
Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Penn State University; William Patterson University; State University of New
York at Fredonia; The New School, New York City; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta; University of
Luleå, Piteå, Sweden; Peabody Conservatory; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Tokyo National
University of the Arts; Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland; Ithaca College; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Frequent guest lecturer for the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
Established a highly visible and worldwide reputation in the acoustic music industry as one of the premier
recording engineers and audio producers and a consultant in studio construction.
Anderson Audio New York – a world-wide music production company with Ulrike Schwarz
President AES Educational Foundation and member Duquesne University Alumni Advisory
Council
JIM ANDERSON 12 Garfield Place Brooklyn, New York 11215 Phone 646-418-7053 Email
[email protected]
JIM ANDERSON
JIM ANDERSON
2022 – Present Professor Emeritus, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
2003 – 2022 Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City-2004-2008 Dept. Chair
1980 – Present Anderson Audio New York + James Anderson Audio
Independent audio engineering and production. Sound design and audio production for recording artists,
film soundtracks and broadcasts. Consultant in studio design and construction; consulted on the
recording studio for Carnegie Hall and Lorin Maazel’s private performance space and recording facility.
(Selected Discography Attached)
1974 – 1980 National Public Radio-Recording Engineer
Audio and production services for studio and location productions. Projects included hundreds of jazz,
opera, symphonic, chamber and folk music concerts and production sound design and location sound for
news specials and stereo feature documentaries including; “Segovia!” - thirteen-part documentary on the
life and music of Andres Segovia, “La Scala at the Kennedy Center” and “A Question of Place-Sound
Portraits of 20th Century Humanists”, and others.
1973 – 1974 Audio Engineer and Producer WDUQ-FM Pittsburgh, PA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • Audio Engineering Society (AES) 2008 – 2009 AES President
2016 – 2018 Governor at Large, Board of Governors, AES
2006 – AES Fellowship Award
2006, 2008, 2014, 2016 AES Board of Governors Award
2015, 2013, 2011, 2007 and 2005 AES Convention Chair
2001 – 2006 AES Vice-President for Sections in the Eastern Region USA/Canada 1999 – 2000 AES
Chairman New York City Professional Section
2003 AES Convention Co-Chair; 2001 & 2003 AES Convention Facilities Chair
1994 – 2003 WNYC AM & FM Community Advisory Board
1994 – Present Downbeat Magazine Student Recording Awards Judge
EDUCATION
1976 Audio Engineering Studies-Sender Freies Berlin, Germany
1975 Audio Engineering Studies-Eastman School of Music
1973 – 1974 Studies for Masters in Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
1969 – 1973 Bachelor of Science Degree, Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Distinguished Graduate Award – Butler Area Senior High School – 2013
Distinguished Graduate Award – Duquesne University Mary Pappert School of Music – 2018
RESEARCH/PAPERS
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., Spatial Variability of Timbre for an Electric Guitar Amplifier,”
part of special session: Musical Timbre: Perception and Analysis/Synthesis, Acoustics 2012, joint
meeting Acoustical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of China, the Hong Kong Institute of
Acoustics, and the Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, Hong Kong. Paper presented.
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Spatial Variability of Timbre for an Electric Guitar Amplifier,”
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, Issue 4, April 2012: 3469. Paper presented
and published abstract.
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Electric Guitar – A Blank Canvas for Timbre and Tone,”
Acoustical Society of America, Published Online: 14 May 2013
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
JIM ANDERSON
Grammy Awarded 2022
2018
2013
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
1997
1994
1994
1993
Recordings
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette “Skyline” – Best Jazz Instrumental Album Jane Ira Bloom “Early
Americans” – Best Surround Album
Patricia Barber “Modern Cool” – Best Surround Album
Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Solo” (Latín Grammy)
Bebo Valdes “Bebo de Cuba (Tropical Field)
Bebo Valdes “Bebo de Cuba” (Latín Grammy)
Bebo Valdes “Lagrimas Negras” (Latín Grammy)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Supernova” (Latín Grammy)
Joe Henderson “Joe Henderson Big Band” (Jazz Field)
Joe Henderson “So Near, So Far” (Jazz Field)
Joe Henderson “So Near, So Far” (Solo Jazz Field)
Branford Marsalis “Heard You Twice” (Jazz Field)
Grammy Nominated Recordings
2024 Donald Vega “As I Travel” – Best Latin Jazz Album
2023 Jane Ira Bloom “Picturing the Invisible – focus 1” – Best Immersive Album 2022 Patricia Barber “Clique!” – Best
Immersive Album
2020 Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” – Best Immersive Album
2015 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Caminos” – Best Latín Jazz Álbum
2014 Jane Ira Bloom “Sixteen Sunsets” – Best Surround Album
2008 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Avatar”
2008 Bebo Valdez & Javier Colina “Live at the Village Vanguard”
2004 Bebo Valdes “Lagrimas Negras” 3 Latin Grammy nominations:
Record of the Year, Album of the Year & Engineer of the Year 2003 McCoy Tyner “Plays John Coltrane at the Village
Vanguard” 2003 Jane Monheit “In the Sun”
2002 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Supernova”
2002 Terence Blanchard “Let’s Get Lost”
2001 Terence Blanchard “Wandering Moon”
2000 Tom Harrell Big Band “Time’s Mirror”
2000 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Inner Voyage”
1999 Joe Henderson “Porgy and Bess”
1998 JJ Johnson “The Brass Orchestra” (2 nominations)
1997 Conrad Herwig “The Latin Side of Coltrane”
1996 Tommy Flannigan Trio “Sea Changes”
1996 Maria Schneider “Coming About”
1995 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra “Desert Lady”
1994 McCoy Tyner Big Band “Uptown/Downtown”
1993 Bobby Watson Big Band “Taylor Made”
1991 Phil Woods Quintet “All Bird’s Children”
1990 James Moody & Dizzy Gillespie “Sweet and Lovely”
1984 Pepper Adams “Live at Fat Tuesday’s”
Radio and Television Awarded Programs and Other Awards
1995 Emmy Nominee “Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters” (PBS)
1992 Jazz Disc Award Best Engineering “The Nutman Speaks” Cyrus Chestnut (Japan)
1989 Swing Journal Jazz Disc Award – Best Engineering & Best Album “V” - Ralph Peterson (Japan) 1983 George
Foster Peabody Award “Taylor Made Piano” (NPR)
1982 International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider” with Gahan
Wilson (Co-producer & Engineer-NPR)
1981 Emmy Nominee “In Performance at the White House-Andres Segovia”
1980 Informational Film Producers of America, Gold Cindy “Stock Car Racing” (Co-Producer &
Engineer - NPR)
1977 George Foster Peabody Award “Sea Island Sketches” (NPR)
Oscar Nominations
2012 Best Animated Feature “Chico & Rita” (Recorded Score) 2021 Best Picture “Judas and the Black Messiah”
(Recorded Score)
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CLIENTS (Partial List)
Radio
British Broadcasting Corporation “Jazz on 4”
Minnesota Public Radio “Prairie Home Companion”
National Public Radio “Toast of the Nation - New Year’s Eve” Public Radio International
“Newport Folk Festival” WBGO-FM “Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater” WEMU-FM “Detroit
Jazz Festival”
JIM ANDERSON
Television
Bravo Network – “Jazz Counterpoint with Billy Taylor”
Jim Henson Associates – “Jim Henson Hour” “Dog City” “Wubulous World
of Dr. Seuss” “Muppet Home Videos” – including “C is for Cookie” Home Box Office – “Jim
Brown All-American” Spike Lee-director MENC/PBS – “World’s Largest Concert”
PBS – “Great Performances” “Petula Clark: A Sign of the Times” WETA-TV – In Performance at
the White House” “Kennedy Center Gala” National Symphony, “National Symphony – A Concert
for the Troops”
with Marvin Hamlish
Film
“Judas and the Black Messiah” – music score recorder and mixer “Chico & Rita” – Oscar
nominated Best Animated Feature 2012 “Bamboozled,” “Jim Brown: All American” - Spike Lee
films &
“Next Friday” Terence Blanchard, composer
“Feiffer Dancer Films” w/Jules Feiffer - Jane Ira Bloom, composer
Music Industry
Atlantic Records
Blue Note Records
BMG (US, France & Japan)
CBS Sony (Japan)
CTI
Columbia Records/ Sony Classical/ Epic Records
Concord Jazz
Contemporary Records
Deutsche Gramophone (Germany)
EMI / EMI Japan (Somethin’ Else)
Enja Records (Germany)
Impex Records
Impulse! Records
Justin Time (Canada)
JVC (Japan)
Knitting Factory Records
Novus J (Japan)
Polydor (Japan)
RCA Victor
Sony Masterworks
SSO Recordings (Norway)
Tzadik
Universal Music/Emarcy/Verve (US, France, Germany & Japan)
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A SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
JIM ANDERSON
ArtistShare
“Higher” Patricia Barber (Stereophile Recording of the Month - September 2019) “Coming About” Maria
Schneider Orchestra (Grammy Nominee – 1996)
Atlantic Records
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Cyrus Chestnut
Blue Note Records
“Hubsongs” The Music of Freddie Hubbard
“Solo” Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Latín Grammy Nominee – 2006)
Calle 54 Records
“Lagrimas Negras” + “Bebo de Cuba” Bebo Valdes
(Grammy Nominee + Grammy Winner) Columbia Legacy
“The Cellar Door Sessions 1970” Miles Davis
“Live and Unreleased” Weather Report Concord Jazz
“Legacy” Jon Faddis
“Smash” Patricia Barber DIW (Japan)
“JC on the Set” + “Jurassic Classics” James Carter Electra/Nonesuch
“Tuskegee Experiments” Don Byron Enja Records (Germany)
“Strings for Holiday” Lee Konitz GML (Japan)
“Mack the Knife” Lionel Hampton and Ray Brown Gramavision Records
“Castles of Ghana” John Carter GRP Records
“Dr. T” Billy Taylor Trio with Gerry Mulligan Heads Up
“100 Years of Latin American Love Songs” Paquito D’Rivera + Strings Impex Records
“Clique” Patricia Barber (Grammy Nominee) Justin Time (Canada)
“Sigamé” D. D. Jackson + “Vietnam-A Remembrance” Billy Bang
JVC
“Classic Moods” Ernie Watts
Music Masters
“Subsequently” Jim Hall
Outline (Grammy Nominees and Grammy Winner)
“Sixteen Sunsets,” “Early American,” “Picturing the Invisible: focus 1,” Jane Ira Bloom
Premonition Records
“Café Blue” + “Modern Cool” + “Verse” + “Nightclub” Patricia Barber
RCA Victor
“For Lady Day” Carmen McRae
Somethin' Else (Japan)
“Diz” Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Sony Records (Japan)
“The Fire of the Fundamentals” Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
SSO Recordings (Norway)
“Brahms Sym. No. 2” + “Mortensen Sym. Op. 5” + “Kverndokk Symphonic Dances”
Verve (France)
“Live at Bradley’s” + “The Perfect Set” Kenny Baron Trio
Verve (US)
““So Near, So Far” Joe Henderson (2 Grammy Awards – 1992)
“The Brass Orchestra” JJ Johnson (2 Grammy Nominations – 1998)
“Porgy and Bess” + “Joe Henderson Big Band” Joe Henderson (Grammy Award – 1997) “Number Two Express” +
“Finger Painting-The Music of Herbie Hancock” Christian McBride
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JIM ANDERSON
Audio Engineering Society (AES) & Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT) Related Activities
1998-1999 1998 1999-2000 2000
2001
2001-2006 2002
AES New York Section Vice Chair and Program Committee Workshop Universitaet der Kuenste
– Berlin
AES New York Section Chair
108th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition – Paris Workshop Universitaet der
Kuenste – Berlin
111th AES Convention Facilities Chair + Judge Student Recording Competition
111th AES Convention High Resolution Workshop Panel
Vice President for Eastern AES Sections, US and Canada
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Atlanta Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Fredonia University Student Section
112th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre and Alberta Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation William Patterson University Student Section
113th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition and Student Mentoring
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Master Class McGill University AES VP Guest
Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Penn State Student Section
114th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
114th AES Convention Panel Surround Sound Mastering Panel
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Toronto Section
24th AES International Conference Presenter – Multichannel Audio the New Reality, Banff
Center
Faculty Advisor NYU AES Student Section
115th AES Convention Facilities Chair, Convention Co-Chair Student Mentoring and Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop University of Luleå, Piteå, Sweden
116th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition and Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre
117th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
Student Mentoring and AES Convention Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop University of Luleå, Piteå, Sweden
Guest Speaker Presentation Washington DC AES Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Toronto Section Surround Seminar 118th Convention
Judge Student Recording Competition, Student Mentoring and AES Convention Visuals
118th AES Convention Tutorial “The Art of Jazz”
119th AES Convention Chair
123rd AES Convention Chair
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
President, Audio Engineering Society
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2003
2004
2005
2005 cont’d
2007
2008-2009 2008
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2009. 2009 AES Presidential Guest Speaker – Peabody Conservatory, Hart College,
Mohawk College, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Surrey, Atlanta AES
Section, Edmonton AES Section, San Francisco AES Section, UK AES Section,
University of Luleå, Sweden
126th AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a
Recording”
2010. 2010 Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
Japanese AES Regional Convention – Keynote Speaker
2011. 2011 131st AES Convention Chair
131st AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a Recording”
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2012. 2012 132nd AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a
Recording”
AES Distinguished Speaker, AES Sweden Section, Stockholm AES Finish Section,
Helsinki
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2013. 2013 Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit 135th AES Convention
Chair
2014. 2014 Guest Speaker – AES México Annual Conference, Mexico City Guest
Speaker – University of Luleå, Sweden and
AES Swedish Section, Stockholm
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2015. 2015 Guest Speaker – UMass Lowell
Guest Speaker – University of Luleå, Sweden Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student
Summit 139th AES Convention Chair
Guest Speaker – Philadelphia AES Section
2016. 2016 140th AES Convention, Paris, Tutorial “Podcasting – Telling the Story with
Sound” & Recording Competition Judge
141st AES Convention, Los Angeles, Tutorials “Podcasting – Telling the Story with
Sound,” ‘Sammy Nestico – The Soldier Sessions,” “Big Band Recording – 2” &
Recording Competition Judge
Elected Governor at Large – AES Board of Governors
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2017. 2017 Guest Speaker – New York AES Section
Guest Speaker – Toronto AES Section
Guest Speaker – Atlanta AES Section
143rd AES Convention, New York, “Telling Your Story with Sound” panelist, “Music
Mixing, Part 4” panelist, Immersive Sound Presenter for Eclipse, Sennheiser, and PMC
Speakers & Recording Competition Judge
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2018. 2018 Guest Speaker – Penn State University AES Section
144th AES Convention, Milan, Italy “New Surround and Immersive Recordings” –
Recording Competition Judge
Attendee - AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation &
Restoration, Library of Congress, Culpepper, Virginia
Keynote Speaker “The WoW Factor” - AES International Conference on Spatial
Reproduction — “Aesthetics and Science” – Tokyo, Japan Presenter immersive and
surround projects for Eclipse Speakers (Japan)
145th AES Convention – “The WoW Factor” and presenter of immersive and surround projects
for Neumann/Sennheiser (Germany) Guest Speaker – Northwest AES Section (Microsoft)
Guest Speaker – UMass Lowell
Guest Speaker – “The WoW Factor“ and “From First Sounds to Final Listening” TMT 30
Tonmeistertagung (Köln, Germany)
Guest Speaker – University of Salford (Manchester, England) “Telling Your Story with Sound”
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2019 Guest Speaker – Toronto AES Section - "Toronto AES Spatial Audio Symposium"
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Guest Presenter – Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Dolby Atmos and PMC Speakers (Munich,
Germany)
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
147th AES Convention – Presenter of immersive and surround projects for Neumann/Sennheiser
(Germany)
2020. 2020 “The Day School Came Home” (VDT) Webinar June 2020
148th AES Convention – “Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music Virtual Technical Tour
Workshop” & “The Day School Came home”
2021. 2021 150th AES Convention “From Tonmeister to Today” Capitol Audiofest,
Washington, D.C.
2022. 2022 AES International Audio Education Conference “Clive Davis Institute of
Recorded Music Virtual Technical Tour Workshop”
4th Schoeps Mikro Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Guest
Presenter Axpona, Chicago, IL
Pacific Audiofest, Seattle, WA
AES 153rd Convention – Sennheiser/Neumann Demo Room
Capitol Audiofest, Washington, D.C.
2023. 2023 AES Toronto – Immersive Sound Presentation
Florida Audio Expo, Tampa, FL
Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Guest Presenter
AES 154th Convention, Helsinki – Immersive Sound Presentations AES 155th
Convention, New York, Immersive Sound Presentations Genelec and Neumann
VDT, TMT 32 Tonmeistertagung (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Immersive Sound Presentations and Education presentations
2024. 2024 NAMM, Anaheim, California, Immersive Sound Presentation Neumann
5th Schoeps Mikro Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany
AES 156th Convention, Madrid, Archiving and Immersive Sound Presentation
AES 157th Convention, New York, Historical, Archiving, and Immersive Sound
presentations
REFERENCES (upon request)
and production, capturing pristine, high-definition stereo and surround sound recordings
that have garnered a dozen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, two Peabodys, and a
pair of Emmy nominations among countless other accolades. Born and raised in
western Pennsylvania, Anderson attended Duquesne University on a musical
performance scholarship, and it was there that his passion for sound and technology
first collided in the music school’s on-campus recording studio. After graduation, he took
work at the local public radio station, WDUQ-FM, and one year later, he made the leap
to NPR in Washington, DC, where he engineered broadcast sessions for everything
from news and documentaries to performances by jazz icons, classical orchestras, folk
singers, and contemporary composers. In 1980, Anderson moved to New York to launch
his career as a freelance engineer and producer, and over the next several decades, he
would go on to record studio albums, live concerts, and film scores across a diverse
array of genres with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, Arturo Sandoval,
Petula Clark, Patricia Barber, John Zorn, and hundreds more. In 2003, he became a
professor at the prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School
of the Arts at NYU. In 2008, he was elected President of the Audio Engineering Society.
Today, Anderson and his wife/production partner Ulrike Schwarz are widely hailed as
industry leaders operating at the cutting edge of the immersive audio field, and their
world-class recordings are regular fixtures at the Grammy Awards and on critics’ annual
Best Of lists.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Internationally recognized recording engineer and producer for acoustic music throughout the world:
(symphonic and chamber music, world music, folk music in studio and in the field, jazz, pop, etc.) in the
recording, radio, television and film industries. Primarily working in stereo, surround & immersive formats.
Recipient of numerous industry awards and nominations including: 13 Grammy and Latin Grammy
Award winning recordings 31Grammy and Latin Grammy Nominated recordings Grammy Winners – Best
Surround Album
“Early Americans” (2018) “Modern Cool” (2013)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album “Skyline” (2022)
Latin Grammy Nomination – Best Engineered Recording – “Lagrimas Negras” (2004) Grammy Nominations
– Best Immersive Album “Picturing the Invisible: focus 1” (2023),
“Clique!” (2022), Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” (2020)
Best Surround Album – “Sixteen Sunsets” (2014)
Spellemannprisen Nominee – Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” (Norway – 2018) 2 Swing Journal Jazz Disc
Awards (Japan)
Broadcasting: 2 George Foster Peabody Awards for NPR programs “Sea Island Sketches” “Taylor Made
Piano”
2 Emmy Nominations for television programs “Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters” “In Performance at
the White House-Andres Segovia”
International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider” Informational Film
Producers of America Gold Cindy “Stock Car Racing”
NPR programs receiving Alfred I duPont awards
Preeminent global client base
World Class Institutions: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Philadelphia
Academy of Music, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway)
Premier Music Labels: Over 1500 recording projects for 112 international labels including: Atlantic
Records; Blue Note Records; Deutsche Grammophon; Sony Classical; Verve Records Radio: National
Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC
Television; PBS Programs – “Great Performances” and “In Performance at the White House”
HBO – Muppets “Dog City” “Wubulous World of Dr. Seuss” “Ghost of Fafner Hall” Recorded first live
immersive recording – Havana, Cuba – Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Solo” (2017) Film: “Chico and Rita” Oscar
Nomination Best Animated Feature Film (2012)
“Judas and the Black Messiah” music score recording, Warner Brothers (2020)
5 Oscar Nominations, winning Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actor (2021)
Professor - Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
2003-2022, Professor Emeritus - Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, 2022
Frequent lecturer and master class guest faculty at leading international institutes of higher education,
including: Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin; Berklee School of Music, Boston; McGill University, Montreal;
Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; Penn State University; William Patterson University; State University of New
York at Fredonia; The New School, New York City; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta; University of
Luleå, Piteå, Sweden; Peabody Conservatory; University of Massachusetts Lowell; Tokyo National
University of the Arts; Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland; Ithaca College; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Frequent guest lecturer for the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
Established a highly visible and worldwide reputation in the acoustic music industry as one of the premier
recording engineers and audio producers and a consultant in studio construction.
Anderson Audio New York – a world-wide music production company with Ulrike Schwarz
President AES Educational Foundation and member Duquesne University Alumni Advisory
Council
JIM ANDERSON 12 Garfield Place Brooklyn, New York 11215 Phone 646-418-7053 Email
[email protected]
JIM ANDERSON
JIM ANDERSON
2022 – Present Professor Emeritus, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
2003 – 2022 Professor, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City-2004-2008 Dept. Chair
1980 – Present Anderson Audio New York + James Anderson Audio
Independent audio engineering and production. Sound design and audio production for recording artists,
film soundtracks and broadcasts. Consultant in studio design and construction; consulted on the
recording studio for Carnegie Hall and Lorin Maazel’s private performance space and recording facility.
(Selected Discography Attached)
1974 – 1980 National Public Radio-Recording Engineer
Audio and production services for studio and location productions. Projects included hundreds of jazz,
opera, symphonic, chamber and folk music concerts and production sound design and location sound for
news specials and stereo feature documentaries including; “Segovia!” - thirteen-part documentary on the
life and music of Andres Segovia, “La Scala at the Kennedy Center” and “A Question of Place-Sound
Portraits of 20th Century Humanists”, and others.
1973 – 1974 Audio Engineer and Producer WDUQ-FM Pittsburgh, PA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • Audio Engineering Society (AES) 2008 – 2009 AES President
2016 – 2018 Governor at Large, Board of Governors, AES
2006 – AES Fellowship Award
2006, 2008, 2014, 2016 AES Board of Governors Award
2015, 2013, 2011, 2007 and 2005 AES Convention Chair
2001 – 2006 AES Vice-President for Sections in the Eastern Region USA/Canada 1999 – 2000 AES
Chairman New York City Professional Section
2003 AES Convention Co-Chair; 2001 & 2003 AES Convention Facilities Chair
1994 – 2003 WNYC AM & FM Community Advisory Board
1994 – Present Downbeat Magazine Student Recording Awards Judge
EDUCATION
1976 Audio Engineering Studies-Sender Freies Berlin, Germany
1975 Audio Engineering Studies-Eastman School of Music
1973 – 1974 Studies for Masters in Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
1969 – 1973 Bachelor of Science Degree, Music Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Distinguished Graduate Award – Butler Area Senior High School – 2013
Distinguished Graduate Award – Duquesne University Mary Pappert School of Music – 2018
RESEARCH/PAPERS
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., Spatial Variability of Timbre for an Electric Guitar Amplifier,”
part of special session: Musical Timbre: Perception and Analysis/Synthesis, Acoustics 2012, joint
meeting Acoustical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of China, the Hong Kong Institute of
Acoustics, and the Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, Hong Kong. Paper presented.
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Spatial Variability of Timbre for an Electric Guitar Amplifier,”
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 131, Issue 4, April 2012: 3469. Paper presented
and published abstract.
Case, A., Roginska, A., Anderson, J., “Electric Guitar – A Blank Canvas for Timbre and Tone,”
Acoustical Society of America, Published Online: 14 May 2013
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
JIM ANDERSON
Grammy Awarded 2022
2018
2013
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
1997
1994
1994
1993
Recordings
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette “Skyline” – Best Jazz Instrumental Album Jane Ira Bloom “Early
Americans” – Best Surround Album
Patricia Barber “Modern Cool” – Best Surround Album
Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Solo” (Latín Grammy)
Bebo Valdes “Bebo de Cuba (Tropical Field)
Bebo Valdes “Bebo de Cuba” (Latín Grammy)
Bebo Valdes “Lagrimas Negras” (Latín Grammy)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Supernova” (Latín Grammy)
Joe Henderson “Joe Henderson Big Band” (Jazz Field)
Joe Henderson “So Near, So Far” (Jazz Field)
Joe Henderson “So Near, So Far” (Solo Jazz Field)
Branford Marsalis “Heard You Twice” (Jazz Field)
Grammy Nominated Recordings
2024 Donald Vega “As I Travel” – Best Latin Jazz Album
2023 Jane Ira Bloom “Picturing the Invisible – focus 1” – Best Immersive Album 2022 Patricia Barber “Clique!” – Best
Immersive Album
2020 Kverndokk “Symphonic Dances” – Best Immersive Album
2015 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Caminos” – Best Latín Jazz Álbum
2014 Jane Ira Bloom “Sixteen Sunsets” – Best Surround Album
2008 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Avatar”
2008 Bebo Valdez & Javier Colina “Live at the Village Vanguard”
2004 Bebo Valdes “Lagrimas Negras” 3 Latin Grammy nominations:
Record of the Year, Album of the Year & Engineer of the Year 2003 McCoy Tyner “Plays John Coltrane at the Village
Vanguard” 2003 Jane Monheit “In the Sun”
2002 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Supernova”
2002 Terence Blanchard “Let’s Get Lost”
2001 Terence Blanchard “Wandering Moon”
2000 Tom Harrell Big Band “Time’s Mirror”
2000 Gonzalo Rubalcaba “Inner Voyage”
1999 Joe Henderson “Porgy and Bess”
1998 JJ Johnson “The Brass Orchestra” (2 nominations)
1997 Conrad Herwig “The Latin Side of Coltrane”
1996 Tommy Flannigan Trio “Sea Changes”
1996 Maria Schneider “Coming About”
1995 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra “Desert Lady”
1994 McCoy Tyner Big Band “Uptown/Downtown”
1993 Bobby Watson Big Band “Taylor Made”
1991 Phil Woods Quintet “All Bird’s Children”
1990 James Moody & Dizzy Gillespie “Sweet and Lovely”
1984 Pepper Adams “Live at Fat Tuesday’s”
Radio and Television Awarded Programs and Other Awards
1995 Emmy Nominee “Carnegie Hall Salutes the Jazz Masters” (PBS)
1992 Jazz Disc Award Best Engineering “The Nutman Speaks” Cyrus Chestnut (Japan)
1989 Swing Journal Jazz Disc Award – Best Engineering & Best Album “V” - Ralph Peterson (Japan) 1983 George
Foster Peabody Award “Taylor Made Piano” (NPR)
1982 International Radio Festival of New York Gold Award “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider” with Gahan
Wilson (Co-producer & Engineer-NPR)
1981 Emmy Nominee “In Performance at the White House-Andres Segovia”
1980 Informational Film Producers of America, Gold Cindy “Stock Car Racing” (Co-Producer &
Engineer - NPR)
1977 George Foster Peabody Award “Sea Island Sketches” (NPR)
Oscar Nominations
2012 Best Animated Feature “Chico & Rita” (Recorded Score) 2021 Best Picture “Judas and the Black Messiah”
(Recorded Score)
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CLIENTS (Partial List)
Radio
British Broadcasting Corporation “Jazz on 4”
Minnesota Public Radio “Prairie Home Companion”
National Public Radio “Toast of the Nation - New Year’s Eve” Public Radio International
“Newport Folk Festival” WBGO-FM “Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater” WEMU-FM “Detroit
Jazz Festival”
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Television
Bravo Network – “Jazz Counterpoint with Billy Taylor”
Jim Henson Associates – “Jim Henson Hour” “Dog City” “Wubulous World
of Dr. Seuss” “Muppet Home Videos” – including “C is for Cookie” Home Box Office – “Jim
Brown All-American” Spike Lee-director MENC/PBS – “World’s Largest Concert”
PBS – “Great Performances” “Petula Clark: A Sign of the Times” WETA-TV – In Performance at
the White House” “Kennedy Center Gala” National Symphony, “National Symphony – A Concert
for the Troops”
with Marvin Hamlish
Film
“Judas and the Black Messiah” – music score recorder and mixer “Chico & Rita” – Oscar
nominated Best Animated Feature 2012 “Bamboozled,” “Jim Brown: All American” - Spike Lee
films &
“Next Friday” Terence Blanchard, composer
“Feiffer Dancer Films” w/Jules Feiffer - Jane Ira Bloom, composer
Music Industry
Atlantic Records
Blue Note Records
BMG (US, France & Japan)
CBS Sony (Japan)
CTI
Columbia Records/ Sony Classical/ Epic Records
Concord Jazz
Contemporary Records
Deutsche Gramophone (Germany)
EMI / EMI Japan (Somethin’ Else)
Enja Records (Germany)
Impex Records
Impulse! Records
Justin Time (Canada)
JVC (Japan)
Knitting Factory Records
Novus J (Japan)
Polydor (Japan)
RCA Victor
Sony Masterworks
SSO Recordings (Norway)
Tzadik
Universal Music/Emarcy/Verve (US, France, Germany & Japan)
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A SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
JIM ANDERSON
ArtistShare
“Higher” Patricia Barber (Stereophile Recording of the Month - September 2019) “Coming About” Maria
Schneider Orchestra (Grammy Nominee – 1996)
Atlantic Records
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Cyrus Chestnut
Blue Note Records
“Hubsongs” The Music of Freddie Hubbard
“Solo” Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Latín Grammy Nominee – 2006)
Calle 54 Records
“Lagrimas Negras” + “Bebo de Cuba” Bebo Valdes
(Grammy Nominee + Grammy Winner) Columbia Legacy
“The Cellar Door Sessions 1970” Miles Davis
“Live and Unreleased” Weather Report Concord Jazz
“Legacy” Jon Faddis
“Smash” Patricia Barber DIW (Japan)
“JC on the Set” + “Jurassic Classics” James Carter Electra/Nonesuch
“Tuskegee Experiments” Don Byron Enja Records (Germany)
“Strings for Holiday” Lee Konitz GML (Japan)
“Mack the Knife” Lionel Hampton and Ray Brown Gramavision Records
“Castles of Ghana” John Carter GRP Records
“Dr. T” Billy Taylor Trio with Gerry Mulligan Heads Up
“100 Years of Latin American Love Songs” Paquito D’Rivera + Strings Impex Records
“Clique” Patricia Barber (Grammy Nominee) Justin Time (Canada)
“Sigamé” D. D. Jackson + “Vietnam-A Remembrance” Billy Bang
JVC
“Classic Moods” Ernie Watts
Music Masters
“Subsequently” Jim Hall
Outline (Grammy Nominees and Grammy Winner)
“Sixteen Sunsets,” “Early American,” “Picturing the Invisible: focus 1,” Jane Ira Bloom
Premonition Records
“Café Blue” + “Modern Cool” + “Verse” + “Nightclub” Patricia Barber
RCA Victor
“For Lady Day” Carmen McRae
Somethin' Else (Japan)
“Diz” Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Sony Records (Japan)
“The Fire of the Fundamentals” Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
SSO Recordings (Norway)
“Brahms Sym. No. 2” + “Mortensen Sym. Op. 5” + “Kverndokk Symphonic Dances”
Verve (France)
“Live at Bradley’s” + “The Perfect Set” Kenny Baron Trio
Verve (US)
““So Near, So Far” Joe Henderson (2 Grammy Awards – 1992)
“The Brass Orchestra” JJ Johnson (2 Grammy Nominations – 1998)
“Porgy and Bess” + “Joe Henderson Big Band” Joe Henderson (Grammy Award – 1997) “Number Two Express” +
“Finger Painting-The Music of Herbie Hancock” Christian McBride
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JIM ANDERSON
Audio Engineering Society (AES) & Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT) Related Activities
1998-1999 1998 1999-2000 2000
2001
2001-2006 2002
AES New York Section Vice Chair and Program Committee Workshop Universitaet der Kuenste
– Berlin
AES New York Section Chair
108th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition – Paris Workshop Universitaet der
Kuenste – Berlin
111th AES Convention Facilities Chair + Judge Student Recording Competition
111th AES Convention High Resolution Workshop Panel
Vice President for Eastern AES Sections, US and Canada
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Atlanta Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Fredonia University Student Section
112th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre and Alberta Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation William Patterson University Student Section
113th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition and Student Mentoring
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Master Class McGill University AES VP Guest
Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Penn State Student Section
114th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
114th AES Convention Panel Surround Sound Mastering Panel
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Toronto Section
24th AES International Conference Presenter – Multichannel Audio the New Reality, Banff
Center
Faculty Advisor NYU AES Student Section
115th AES Convention Facilities Chair, Convention Co-Chair Student Mentoring and Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop University of Luleå, Piteå, Sweden
116th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition and Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop Banff Centre
117th AES Convention Judge Student Recording Competition
Student Mentoring and AES Convention Visuals
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation and Workshop University of Luleå, Piteå, Sweden
Guest Speaker Presentation Washington DC AES Section
AES VP Guest Speaker Presentation Toronto Section Surround Seminar 118th Convention
Judge Student Recording Competition, Student Mentoring and AES Convention Visuals
118th AES Convention Tutorial “The Art of Jazz”
119th AES Convention Chair
123rd AES Convention Chair
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
President, Audio Engineering Society
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2003
2004
2005
2005 cont’d
2007
2008-2009 2008
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2009. 2009 AES Presidential Guest Speaker – Peabody Conservatory, Hart College,
Mohawk College, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Surrey, Atlanta AES
Section, Edmonton AES Section, San Francisco AES Section, UK AES Section,
University of Luleå, Sweden
126th AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a
Recording”
2010. 2010 Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
Japanese AES Regional Convention – Keynote Speaker
2011. 2011 131st AES Convention Chair
131st AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a Recording”
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2012. 2012 132nd AES Convention Tutorial “Recording is Not Reality; Reality is Not a
Recording”
AES Distinguished Speaker, AES Sweden Section, Stockholm AES Finish Section,
Helsinki
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2013. 2013 Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit 135th AES Convention
Chair
2014. 2014 Guest Speaker – AES México Annual Conference, Mexico City Guest
Speaker – University of Luleå, Sweden and
AES Swedish Section, Stockholm
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2015. 2015 Guest Speaker – UMass Lowell
Guest Speaker – University of Luleå, Sweden Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student
Summit 139th AES Convention Chair
Guest Speaker – Philadelphia AES Section
2016. 2016 140th AES Convention, Paris, Tutorial “Podcasting – Telling the Story with
Sound” & Recording Competition Judge
141st AES Convention, Los Angeles, Tutorials “Podcasting – Telling the Story with
Sound,” ‘Sammy Nestico – The Soldier Sessions,” “Big Band Recording – 2” &
Recording Competition Judge
Elected Governor at Large – AES Board of Governors
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2017. 2017 Guest Speaker – New York AES Section
Guest Speaker – Toronto AES Section
Guest Speaker – Atlanta AES Section
143rd AES Convention, New York, “Telling Your Story with Sound” panelist, “Music
Mixing, Part 4” panelist, Immersive Sound Presenter for Eclipse, Sennheiser, and PMC
Speakers & Recording Competition Judge
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2018. 2018 Guest Speaker – Penn State University AES Section
144th AES Convention, Milan, Italy “New Surround and Immersive Recordings” –
Recording Competition Judge
Attendee - AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation &
Restoration, Library of Congress, Culpepper, Virginia
Keynote Speaker “The WoW Factor” - AES International Conference on Spatial
Reproduction — “Aesthetics and Science” – Tokyo, Japan Presenter immersive and
surround projects for Eclipse Speakers (Japan)
145th AES Convention – “The WoW Factor” and presenter of immersive and surround projects
for Neumann/Sennheiser (Germany) Guest Speaker – Northwest AES Section (Microsoft)
Guest Speaker – UMass Lowell
Guest Speaker – “The WoW Factor“ and “From First Sounds to Final Listening” TMT 30
Tonmeistertagung (Köln, Germany)
Guest Speaker – University of Salford (Manchester, England) “Telling Your Story with Sound”
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
2019 Guest Speaker – Toronto AES Section - "Toronto AES Spatial Audio Symposium"
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Guest Presenter – Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Dolby Atmos and PMC Speakers (Munich,
Germany)
Guest Speaker – AES Atlanta Student Summit
147th AES Convention – Presenter of immersive and surround projects for Neumann/Sennheiser
(Germany)
2020. 2020 “The Day School Came Home” (VDT) Webinar June 2020
148th AES Convention – “Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music Virtual Technical Tour
Workshop” & “The Day School Came home”
2021. 2021 150th AES Convention “From Tonmeister to Today” Capitol Audiofest,
Washington, D.C.
2022. 2022 AES International Audio Education Conference “Clive Davis Institute of
Recorded Music Virtual Technical Tour Workshop”
4th Schoeps Mikro Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Guest
Presenter Axpona, Chicago, IL
Pacific Audiofest, Seattle, WA
AES 153rd Convention – Sennheiser/Neumann Demo Room
Capitol Audiofest, Washington, D.C.
2023. 2023 AES Toronto – Immersive Sound Presentation
Florida Audio Expo, Tampa, FL
Munich Hi-End Audio Show – Guest Presenter
AES 154th Convention, Helsinki – Immersive Sound Presentations AES 155th
Convention, New York, Immersive Sound Presentations Genelec and Neumann
VDT, TMT 32 Tonmeistertagung (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Immersive Sound Presentations and Education presentations
2024. 2024 NAMM, Anaheim, California, Immersive Sound Presentation Neumann
5th Schoeps Mikro Forum, Karlsruhe, Germany
AES 156th Convention, Madrid, Archiving and Immersive Sound Presentation
AES 157th Convention, New York, Historical, Archiving, and Immersive Sound
presentations
REFERENCES (upon request)