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Michael Fleming - honorary judge for category 1 (traditional acoustic recording)

Michael Fleming is a Nashville-based audio engineer whose technical credits include album releases on Naxos, Justin Time, WEA, Centaur, Raven and Classic Concert Records, among others. An experienced broadcast producer and music engineer, Fleming has worked for organizations and clients including WGBH Radio, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Opera, and he has provided sound reinforcement, location recording and/or post-production services for the Tanglewood Music Center, motion picture clients and numerous summer festivals.

Michael is also an Associate Professor of Audio Production at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in studio and location recording techniques, digital audio technology, critical listening and audio mastering. Michael earned a degree in Physics from Carleton College and a Masters of Music in Sound Recording from McGill University.  

 Introducing Student Design Competition judge Patrizio Pisani of ZP Engineering!

Barry Marshall - honorary judge for category 3 (modern studio recording)

"Barry Marshall has toured and recorded all over the world as both a musical director for The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame’s LaVern Baker, and as a record producer for Baker, Peter Wolf, and Ben E. King. He was a songwriting partner to the late Doc Pomus, and he’s shared the stage on gigs with everyone from Paul Shaffer to Bonnie Raitt to B.B. King.

Barry is an Associate Professor at the New England Institute of Art and at Emerson College where he teaches classes in music production, recording industry, and the history of media arts. Barry has also recently produced three albums for Cape Verdean artist Dany Silva and serves as the Musical Director for the One Planet Education Network, currently developing content for museums and video games."  

Alex Case - honorary judge for category 3 (modern studio recording)

Alex U. Case is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Music, and Acoustics, Professor Case has dedicated his professional life to the study of aesthetics, perception, signal processing, electro-acoustics and room acoustics for the creation and enjoyment of sound recordings.

Case is a widely published author, with over 100 articles appearing in multiple journals and industry trade publications. He has authored two titles for Focal Press, both bestsellers in their genre.

Case is an educator in great demand. In addition to his full time undergraduate and graduate teaching, Case has given many invited lectures and master classes at over 20 different universities across the globe from the Berklee College of Music to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Case is active in the two professional societies central to his research. For the Audio Engineering Society, he serves the Awards Committee, Education Committee, and Membership Committee, and has served the Convention Planning Committees in New York and San Francisco. Professor Case is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America where he is a frequent presenter of papers and chair of special sessions.  He serves as Chair of Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics.

Liz Teutsch - honorary judge for category 2 (traditional studio recording)

Liz is an audio professional and educator based in Valencia, Spain where she is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Director of Academic Technology at Berklee College of Music.  Formerly the Director of Audio Production at Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts, Liz is an active member of the Audio Engineering Society and its education events.  She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Berklee College of Music. 

Andrea Pejrolo - honorary judge for category 3 (modern studio recording)

Andrea Pejrolo (www.apejrolo.com) is the Assistant Chair of the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music in Boston. 

Andrea is a composer, producer, music technology expert, audio engineer, and bassist. He is the author of Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production (1st edition 2005, and 2nd edition 2011) and Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer (2007) and has written several articles for music magazines, including Sound On Sound, Bass World Magazine (USA), Muralann and Boheme Press (Canada), and Il Capitello Publisher (Italy). recently he has launched a brand new website/blog called www.acousticmidiorchestration.com.
 

Andrea has extensive and active professional experience as a sound designer, audio engineer/producer, MIDI programmer and composer for film, TV, theater and multimedia. Some of his recent collaborations and projects include Traits de Marque in Paris, iAcoustica Studio drum library, iDrum Rock Edition for iPhone/iPad in collaboration with Izotope, arrangements and recording with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Kevin Bacon’s “Lover Boy”, Harry Davis’ “MVP”, Don Sebesky, ABC, CBS, Cy Coleman, Burning Petals Music Production (U.K.), the Broadway Show "Swing" (St. James Theater, NY), and the Grand Canyon Music Festival.
 

Some of hi latest "inventions" as music technologist can be seen on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/56389617  and http://vimeo.com/56386501
 

Andrea holds a Ph.D. in jazz composition/performance from New York University, a Master in Composition for Film, TV, Theater and Multimedia from the University of Bristol (U.K.) and a Music Diploma in Jazz Performance from  Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
 

Follow Andrea's work via Twitter @apejrolo_music.

Mischa Janisch - honorary judge for category 2 (traditional studio recording)

Mischa Janisch started his professional career in 1994 as a drummer and songwriter in Vienna. His passion for audio let him into music production and engineering, where he started as a freelancer at Sunshine Music in 1995 where he later became an associate.

 Starting as a producer, he soon established himself as a successfull mixing engineer.

Due to the lack of proper Austrian mastering studios in the 90s, he became more and more involved into mastering which finally led to the founding of Sunshine Mastering under his supervision.

 Mischa is also an educator of the Tonmeister programm of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. 

Richard King - honorary judge for category 1 (traditional acoustic recording) 

Richard King holds a bachelor of music from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a master of music with a major in sound recording from McGill University.

After 15 years with Sony Music Studios in New York and a successful independent recording business, Grammy award-winning recording engineer Richard King is now an associate professor at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal. He continues his freelance recording work, with various record labels and film companies in the US.

Richard is a frequent AES panelist, and he is a guest lecturer at many university level recording programs on a regular basis.

Introducing Student Design Competition judge Aurelio Uncini of the Sapienza University of Rome!

Introducing Student Design Competition judge Roberto Magalotti of B&C Speakers!