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133rd AES Convention San Francisco 2012 
132nd AES Convention Budapest 2012 
131st AES Convention New York 2011
130th AES Convention London 2011
129th AES Convention San Francisco 2010
128th AES Convention London 2010
127th AES Convention New York 2009
126th AES Convention Munich 2009
125th AES Convention San Francisco 2008
124th AES Convention Amsterdam 2008
123rd AES Convention New York 2007
122nd AES Convention Vienna 2007
121st AES Convention San Francisco 2006

 


133rd AES Convention San Francisco 2012

Category 1 
Scott Levine Mc Gill University gold
Alexander Choeb University of the Arts Berlin silver
Luiz Fernando Kruszielsly Tokyo University of the Arts Tokyo bronze

Category 2 
Pouya Hamidi Mc Gill University silver
Thomas Hauser University of North Carolina bronze
Alexander Choeb University of the Arts Berlin honorable mention

Category 3 
Denis Martin McGill University gold
Gabe Slotnick Johns Hopkins University silver
Tad Nicol University of Miami bronze

Category 4 
Cindy Takehara Ferruccio Pontificia Universidad Javeriana gold
Daniel Casas Buitrago Pontificia Universidad Javeriana gold
Adam Primack Vancouver Film School silver
Brian Parsons Utah Valley University silver

132nd AES Convention Budapest 2012

 

One of the biggest student participation we’ve seen in years. Here are the finalists’s names (congratulations) and the received awards and prices (thanks to our sponsors):

CAT 1 | Traditional Acoustic Recording

GOLD AWARD

TERESA KUNZ (Universität der Künste Berlin)

Schoeps MK22 CMC6 microphone + REAPER license

 

SILVER AWARD

SIMON LINDSKOG (University of Lulea-Pitea)

Telefunken M80 microphone + soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

BRONZE AWARD

Vytautas Kederys (Hochschule Darmstadt)

Price: Amarra player + REAPER license

 

CAT 2 | Traditional Studio Recording

GOLD AWARD

KONRAD GLAS (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)

IGS Audio Cool Miner channel strip + REAPER license.

 

GOLD AWARD

GYORGY BAROCSAI (University of Lulea-Pitea)

Looptroter Audio Engineering Saturate 2 + REAPER license

 

BRONZE AWARD

JOCHEN DANNWOLF (Robert-Schumann-Hochschule/FH Düsseldorf)

Amarra player + REAPER license

 

CAT 3 | Modern Studio Recording

SILVER AWARD

YOANN SAUNIER (Conservatiore National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris)

D16 Bundle + soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

SILVER AWARD

DANIEL MEYER (Universität der Künste Berlin)

D16 Bundle + soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

BRONZE AWARD

ALEKSANDRA CIEPLOCH (Frederic Chopin University of Music Warsaw)

soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

HONORABLE MENTION

GYORGY BAROCSAI (University of Lulea-Pitea)

soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

CAT 4 | Sound For Visual Media

GOLD AWARD

NIKOLA JEREMIC (Advanced School of Electrical Engineering Belgrade)

Celemony Melodyne + REAPER license

 

GOLD AWARD

MARTA OLKO (Frederic Chopin University of Music Warsaw)

Charter Oak SP1 Headphones + REAPER license

 

SILVER AWARD

DANIEL MEYER (Universität der Künste Berlin)

Telefunken M81 + soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

BRONZE AWARD

CHRISTIAN SANDER (Robert-Schumann-Hochschule/FH Düsseldorf)

 

soundchannel.org subscription + Amarra player + REAPER license

 

131st AES Convention New York 2011

 

Finalists

 

Everybody of the finalists got Auralex .

Silver, bronze and honorable mention got Shure earphones and reaper.

 

Additional prizes below:

 

Traditional Acoustic Recordings

  • Gold 85455 - Padraig Buttner-Schnirer, Banff / McGill University Schulich School of Music - Schoeps CMC6- MK22

  • Silver 59051 - Jamie Tagg, UMass - Lowell SSL plugins

  • Bronze 81030 - Adam Grover , The Hartt School: University of Hartford

  • Bronze 88487 - Eric Xu, Tokyo University of the Arts

 

Traditional Studio Recordings

  • Gold 1 Jeff Braun, Door Open, Middle Tennessee State University - API

  • Gold 3 surround Takino Masumi, WaterScape for Soprano Saxophone and Alto Saxophone, Tokyo University of the Arts - Sennheiser headphones and extreme isolation headphonse

  • Bronze 2 Andrew Cass, Beatrice , The Hartt School - University of Hartford 

 

Modern Studio Recordings:

  • Silver Hiromu Tanokura, "NEW YORK COUNTER POINT", 1st movement,Tokyo University of Arts -Melodyne

  • Silver Taylor Bray,Keep THE GHOST AWAKE, MTSU - Avid (Mbox+ProTools10)

  • Silver Kevin Harper, JHARI, Ithaca College - Pyramix

  • Honorable Mention LBlue Hunt, SWEET DREAM,S Institute of Audio Research

 

Sound for Picture:

  • Gold  Kevin Fallis, Vancouver Film School - PMC speakers

  • Silver Tariq Burney, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Sennheisser headphones and 100$ Sweetwater

  • Bronze Sundiata Devore, Institute of Audio Research

  • honorable mention: Ja-Ann Wang, New York University

 

 

130th AES Convention London 2011

The Student Recording Competitions attracted 55 student submissions from all over the world, competing in four categories: Traditional Acoustic Recordings, Traditional Studio Recordings, Modern Studio Recordings and Sound for Visual Media.

Jim Anderson (left), Bill Crabtree (right)

Jim Anderson (left), Bill Crabtree (right)

Diana Gorovaya (left), John Krivit (right)

Diana Gorovaya (left), John Krivit (right)

Traditional Acoustic Recordings

Bronze: Vilius Keras - Hochschule Darmstadt (stereo)

Bronze: Damien Giromella - London College of Music (stereo)

Bronze: Nadezda Nikolaeva - Russian Academy of Music Moscow (surround)

Traditional Studio Recordings

Silver: Kevin Harper - Ithaca College (stereo)

Bronze: Julien Carton - Conservatoire de Paris (surround)

Bronze: Diana Gorovaya - Russian Academy of Music Moscow (stereo)

Modern Studio Recordings

Silver: Krzysztof Salawa - Frederic Chopin Academy of Music (stereo)

Silver: Kevin Harper - Ithaca College (stereo)

Bronze: Michal Korzeniowski - AGH Krakow (stereo) Bronze: Tim Tautorat - HfM Detmold (stereo)  

Sound for Visual Media

Gold: Aleksandra Cieploch - Frederic Chopin University of Music Warsaw (surround)

Silver: Michael Zoellner - University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf (surround)

Bronze: Clement Cornau - Conservatoire de Paris (surround) 

Judges offered their time and expertise tirelessly: Jim Anderson, Alex Case, Bill Crabtree, John Dunkerley, Michael Fleming, Ray Gillon, Dave McLaughlin, Ronald Prent, Darcy Proper, Ulrike Schwarz.

Prizes were made possible through the generosity and commitment to education shared by our sponsors: Cockos, Focal Press, Melodyne, Merging Technologies Pyramix, PMC Loudspeakers, Schoeps Mikrofone and Sonivox.

129th AES Convention San Francisco 2010

The Student Recording Competitions attracted 66 student submissions from all over the world, competing in seven categories: Stereo Pop/Rock, Stereo World/Folk, Stereo Jazz/Blues, Stereo Classical, Surround Non-Classical, Surround Classical, and Surround Sound for Picture.

The real heroes in the competition are the judges, who volunteer significant time to the cause, offering expertise of the highest level: Jim Anderson, David Bowles, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Vince Caro, Dana Jon Chappelle, Shawn Everett, Malcolm Fife, Akira Fukada, David W Hewitt, David Miles Huber, Leslie Ann Jones, Jim Kaiser, Richard King, Lolly Lewis, Dave MacLaughlin, Glenn Lorbecki, Andres Mayo, Ronald Prent, Mark Rubel, and Alan Silverman.

The generous sponsorship of the following exhibitors enriches the experience for the students, adding a bit of hardware and software to the honor of being an AES winner: API, Cengage Learning, Focal Press, Genelec, Izotope, Massenburg Design Works/Avid, Melodyne/Music Marketing Canada, Merging Technologies, PMC Monitors, Schoeps Mikrofone GmbH, Solid State Logic, Sonivox, and Sound Toys. These sponsors are donating a valuable, high quality product to the recording competition, showing an inspiring commitment to keeping the next generation of sound recordists involved in the AES and pursuing the highest production standards. The entire SDA and every member of the Education Committee very much appreciate their support.

Kevin Harper (left), Alex Case (right)

Kevin Harper (left), Alex Case (right)

Lolly Lewis (left), David W. Hewitt (middle), David Bowles (right)

Lolly Lewis (left),  David W. Hewitt (middle), David Bowles (right)

Student winners include:

Stereo Rock/Pop
Tim Hall Middle Tennessee State University
Kyu Sik Chang Chung-Ang University
Kevin Harper Ithaca College

Stereo World/Folk
Brad Delava The New England Institute of Art
Christopher R. Conover Middle Tennessee State University
Meining Cheung Ruiz The Banff Centre

Stereo Jazz/Blues
Tim Hall Middle Tennessee State University
Gonzalo Garcia The Banff Centre
Bryan Lovett & Brett Long Hartt School of Music

Stereo Classical
Yao Lu Johns Hopkins University
Kevin Harper Ithaca College
Justin Shelton University of Texas at Arlington

Surround Classical
Scott Strathman Indiana University
Tetsuro Kanai Tokyo University of Arts
Kevin Harper Ithaca College

Surround Non-Classical
Jeremy Dudman Middle Tennessee State University
Kevin Harper Ithaca College
not awarded

Sound for Picture
Alejandro Yllarramendy Vancouver Film School
Piper Payne The Banff Centre
not awarded

 128th AES Convention London 2010

Recording Competitions attracted more than 130 student submissions from 27 student sections across 20 countries, competing in six categories, and we are pleased to announce the winners:

 Darcy Proper (left), Mark Drews (right)

Darcy Proper (left), Mark Drews (right)

Garry Gottlieb (left), Luis Herranz (middle), John Krivit (right)

Garry Gottlieb (left), Luis Herranz (middle), John Krivit (right)

Stereo - Jazz/Blues


  1. Teresa Kunz - Berlin University of Art
  2. Krzysztof Salawa – Fryderyk Chopin Academy
  3. Adam Tiller – McGill University

Stereo - World/Folk

  1. Liu Da – Beijing Union University
  2. Daniel Deboy – Institute of Electronic Music Graz

Stereo - Pop/Rock

  1. Roland Rath – Technical University Graz
  2. Nathan Hilton – The Banff Centre
  3. Luis Herranz – Microfusa Barcelona

Stereo - Classical

  1. Emma Lain Fernandez – Detmold University
  2. Robert Migas – Fryderyk Chopin University
  3. Peter Venus – “ Prometheus! ” - Institute of Electronic Music Graz

Surround - Classical

  1. Clement Cornuau – Conservatoire de Paris
  2. Alexander Mikhlin – Russian Academy of Music
  3. Krzysztof Salawa – Fryderyk Chopin Academy

Surround - Classical

  1. Liu Da – Beijing Union University
  2. Luis Herranz – Microfusa Barcelona
  3. Christoph Frank – University of Music Graz

 

Judges offered their time and expertise tirelessly: Jim Anderson, Ken Blair, David Bowles, Bill Crabtree, Mark Drews, Gary Gottlieb, Tony Falkner, Philip Hobbs, Hugh Robjohns, Tin Jonker, Jim Kaiser, Bastian Kuijit, Thor Legvold, Barry Marshall, Andres Mayo, Dave McLaughlin, Ron Prent, Darcy Proper.

 

Awards were made possible through the generosity and commitment to education shared by our sponsors: Cengage Learning, Focal Press, Izotope, Melodyne, Merging Technologies Pyramix, MOTU, PMC Monitors, Schoeps Mikrofone GmbH, Sennheiser,Solid State Logic, and Sonivox.

 

The SDA continued to recognize the significant generosity of PMC through the Institutional Award. One school was chosen by lottery among all institutions that participated in the competition and were present at the SDA closing meeting. This year’s winning school was Berlin University of the Arts.

127th AES Convention New York 2009

There were approximately 110 entries to the 127th AES Student Recording competition.


The SDA would also like to thank our sponsors: AES, Lavry Engineering, Genelec, Shure Incorporated, JBL, Schoeps, Ron Streicher, Focal Press, Sonivox, iZotope, and PMC.

Thomas Geiger (left), Alex Case (right)

Thomas Geiger (left), Alex Case (right)


Stereo Classical

  1. Sebastian Braun - Erich Thienhaus Institut Musikhoschule Detmold
  2. James Clemens Seely - McGill University
  3. Patrick Fiorello - Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford


Stereo World/Folk

  1. Rishi Daftuar - University of Michigan
  2. Christopher Johns - McGill University
  3. Hugo Vejar - CEARTEC


Stereo Pop/Rock

  1. Thomas Geiger - Institute for Electronic Music, University of Music & Performing Arts Graz, Austria
  2. Christopher R Conover, University of Michigan
  3. Jacob Lansky, New England School of Communication


Stereo Jazz/Blues

  1. Brittany Keen - Institute of Audio Research
  2. Cecile Tournesac - Clive Davis School of Music, New York University
  3. Sebastian Braun - Erich Thienhaus Institut Musikhoschule Detmold


Surround – Classical

  1. Thomas Geiger - Institute for Electronic Music, University of Music & Performing Arts Graz, Austria
  2. Martin Kistner - University of the Arts, Berlin
  3. Patrick Fiorello - Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford


Surround – Non Classical

  1. Janosch Brenneisen - FH Duesseldorf
  2. Thomas Geiger - Institute for Electronic Music, University of Music & Performing Arts Graz, Austria
  3. Erick Thompson - University of Colorado Denver


Score/Sound For Picture

  1. Peter Roesner/Phillip Treiber - University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
  2. Luc Hanneuse - IAD/INSAS
  3. Bing Jee Ng - Institute of Audio Research


A grand prize drawing was also held to win a pair of PMC Loudspeakers. All schools that were represented among the recording competition entries were included in the drawing. Ithaca College won the loudspeakers.


The SDA would also like to thank the following judges: Mark Rubel, Susan Rogers, Martha DeFrancisco, Darcy Proper, Jim Anderson, Dave Hewitt, Michael Bishop, Leszek Wojcik, Richard King, Ronald Prent, Robert Friedrich, Lawrence Manchester, Tim Starnes, Ron Sadoff, Mark Suzzo, Michael Barry, and Ira Newborn.

126th AES Convention Munich 2009

The recording competition winners from the 126th Convention in Munich have been announced.

 

Approximately 80 entries were received for the competition

Daniel Deboy (left), John Krivit (right)

Daniel Deboy (left), John Krivit (right)

 

Johannes Oscarsson (left), John Krivit (right)
Johannes Oscarsson (left), John Krivit (right)

 

Stereo - Pop/Rock

  1. Anton Persson - Luleå University of Technology
  2. Simon Oberender - Detmold University of Music
  3. Lars Spurr - The Royal Danish Music Academy

 

Stereo - Jazz/Blues

  1. Benjamin Ribolet - Conservatoire de Paris
  2. Grzegorz Sikora - McGill University

 

Stereo - World/Folk

  1. Brian Losch - McGill University
  2. Nils Carlsson - Luleå University of Technology
  3. Robin Ken Boes - Detmold University of Music

 

Stereo - Classical

  1. Ulrich Treutwein - University of Music and Perfoming Arts Vienna
  2. Wojciech Mielimaka - Fryderyk Chopin Univerity of Music
  3. Johannes Oscarsson - Luleå University of Technology

 

Surround - Non Classical

  1. Daniel Deboy - University Of Music And Dramatic Arts Graz
  2. Jonathan Hoffman - FH Duesseldorf
  3. Kyohei Takahashi - Tokyo University of the Arts

 

 
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